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Twisted Sisters

Move over Basic instinct & Fatal Attraction. These ladies have serious issues.

7:00 p.m. • Saturday, January 12, 2008
Paramount Arts Center (Ashland, KY)
3:00 p.m. • Sunday, January 13, 2008
Greaves Concert Hall, NKU

Shostakovich	Lady MacBeth of Mtsensk Suite*
Donizetti	"Mad Scene" from Lucia di Lammermoor
Boito	"L'altra notte" from Mefistofeles
R. Strauss	"Dance of the Seven Veils" & Final Scene from Salome
	Amy Johnson, soprano
Single Ticket Prices: A $28, B $23; B Senior $18, Student $10
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Before movies and television regularly focused on the dark side of human interaction, opera

was driving its divas over the edge with quite graphic tales and scenes. In bringing a new feel

and look to the concert stage this season, the KSO will experiment with technology (projected

sets on downstage scrims) and visuals (costumed dramatizations), allowing these infamous

scenes to visually and musically appear live on-stage. Manic and colorful orchestral works by Shostakovich and Strauss will set apart scenes of madness as three ladies in opera — Lucia, Marguerite and Salome —reflect on the heinous murders they have committed. The three women will be portrayed by the stunning, versatile soprano and actress Amy Johnson. Leave the young ones at home for this one.

Beethoven's in the House

The concert stage and performance art collide

when Ludwig shows up after nearly 200 years.

8:00 p.m. Saturday • April 5, 2008
3:00 p.m. Sunday • April 6, 2008
Greaves Concert Hall, NKU

Beethoven	Creatures of Prometheus Overture
	Piano Concerto No. 5 (Emperor)
	Symphony No. 7 in A
James Tocco, piano	Troy Hitch appears as Ludwig van Beethoven
Single Ticket Prices: A $28, B $23; B Senior $18, Student $10
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What if Beethoven stumbled upon a De Lorean (think Back to the Future) and whisked ahead

200 years to land in Highland Heights, KY for a couple hours in 2008. What would he think of today’s orchestra, audience and our performance of his music? How would he, with limited

hearing, respond and interact? Okay enough with the rhetorical questions. The KSO will attempt

to provide answers as Ludwig makes an appearance for an All-Beethoven program featuring internationally renowned pianist James Tocco. Local performer and creative marketing guru Troy Hitch channels Beethoven in the KSO’s fusion of concert and performance art.

West Side Story

Let's Rumble!

8:00 p.m. • May 9 & 10, 2008
Greaves Concert Hall, NKU

Bernstein / Sondheim	West Side Story (complete)

Single Ticket Prices: A $28, B $23; B Senior $18, Student $10
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In 1957 the curtain went up on the Broadway team of Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim

and Jerome Robbins’ West Side Story. The music, lyrics and choreography live on as one of the greatest musicals of all-time. The KSO has secured the rights to stage this remarkable show —as it has with other past KSO productions of Sweeney Todd and Evita —complete with full orchestration, choreography and virtual set design. NKU’s Theatre department will partner

with the KSO on this 50th anniverary tribute production.

*Regional Premieres