If you are within a two hour drive of Portland, Oregon – I strongly urge you to come to either our Front Row Center concert Friday, January 20th at 7:30 p.m. or to our Classical series January 22-23 in Portland and Jan. 24 in Salem, Oregon. She will be singing music from Saint-Säens (“Ah! mon coeur” from Samson and Delilah), Bizet (the famous Habanera from Carmen) and Ravel (Shéhérazade) on Friday night (on a program entitled “Women of Substance”) which will also include Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakoff’s Scheherazade, and on Sunday and Monday she will be singing only the Ravel. All are great works, but the dusky, perfume-laden atmospherics of the Ravel have not been heard in Portland for over two decades, and it is not to be missed!
Click here for tickets. As for Ms. DeYoung, she is one of the most stunningly voiced mezzos to be heard in recent years, and to see her on the concert stage in this repertoire is a rare treat, indeed. Michael Stern conducts.