Danielle Talamantes

Mezzo-soprano Clémentine Margaine reprises her remarkable portrayal of opera’s ultimate seductress, a triumph in her 2017 debut performances, with impassioned tenors Yonghoon Lee and Roberto Alagna as her lover, Don José. Omer Meir Wellber and Louis Langrée share conducting duties for Sir Richard Eyre’s powerful production, a Met favorite since its 2009 premiere.

National Philharmonic Chorale Strathmore Children’s Chorus Stan Engebretson, conductor

Selections from Mass Candide West Side Story

Jonathan Griffith, DCINY Artistic Director and Principal Conductor Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125

Fantasia in C minor, Op.80 ("Choral Fantasy")

Featuring Distinguished Concerts Orchestra and Distinguished Concerts Singers International Warren Lee, Piano Soloist Danielle Talamantes, Soprano Claudia Chapa, Mezzo-Soprano John McVeigh, Tenor Christopher Job, Baritone

Florence Price Violin Concerto No. 2 Qing Qing Wang Between Clouds and Streams NEE COMMISSION G.F. Handel (Mozart arr.) Messiah Soloists: Danielle Talamentes, soprano; Mindy Chu, mezzo-soprano; Derek Chester, tenor; Kerry Wilkerson, bass-baritone; David Buckley, violin The December concerts tease our sense of memory. We know Messiah very well, but few know that Mozart re-scored Handel’s Messiah for a much larger orchestra, making our performance an “often-heard rarity.” Co-concertmaster David Buckley is soloist in the Second Violin Concerto of Florence Price, a prolific African-American composer that made her long career in Chicago, where her music was championed by the Chicago Symphony in the 1930s. Our collective musical memory is intimately combined with African-American music. Let’s always remember that. And let’s remember that we are a nation of immigrants, as we celebrate with the stunning music of Chinese-American composer Qing Qing Wang in the 2018 Thomas Nee Commission.

Florence Price Violin Concerto No. 2 Qing Qing Wang Between Clouds and Streams NEE COMMISSION G.F. Handel (Mozart arr.) Messiah Soloists: Danielle Talamentes, soprano; Mindy Chu, mezzo-soprano; Derek Chester, tenor; Kerry Wilkerson, bass-baritone; David Buckley, violin The December concerts tease our sense of memory. We know Messiah very well, but few know that Mozart re-scored Handel’s Messiah for a much larger orchestra, making our performance an “often-heard rarity.” Co-concertmaster David Buckley is soloist in the Second Violin Concerto of Florence Price, a prolific African-American composer that made her long career in Chicago, where her music was championed by the Chicago Symphony in the 1930s. Our collective musical memory is intimately combined with African-American music. Let’s always remember that. And let’s remember that we are a nation of immigrants, as we celebrate with the stunning music of Chinese-American composer Qing Qing Wang in the 2018 Thomas Nee Commission.