On Friday, Dec. 4, at 7:30 p.m., the Salem Civic Center will host Holiday Pops, one of the biggest events of the year, with over 200 singers, star soprano Adrienne Danrich, and full orchestra.
Ms. Danrich made her San Francisco Opera stage debut as Micaela in Bizet’s Carmen after having covered in two of the companies’ prior seasons as Elizabeth in the French version of Verdi’s Don Carlos and Liu in Puccini’s Turandot.
In 2006, Ms. Danrich received a commission from Cincinnati Opera to write and perform a one-woman show: This Little Light of Mine: The Stories of Marian Anderson and Leontyne Price.
Ms. Danrich received her second commission from Indiana University of Pennsylvania-Lively Arts Concert Series in 2010. The new show, An Evening in the Harlem Renaissance, had its debut in February 2011 and was extraordinarily well received.
Ms. Danrich made her soloist debut at Carnegie Hall with the New England Symphonic Ensemble in Beethoven’s Mass in C and Mozart’s Mass in G.
Most recently, she sang the role of Serena in Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess with Dayton Opera Sister Rose in Jake Heggie’s Dead Man Walking with Fort Worth Opera.
She is a native of St. Louis, MO and is an alumna of Eastman School of Music and the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music.
Holiday Pops Spectacular will feature the Roanoke Symphony Orchestra, Roanoke Symphony Chorus Members of Virginia Tech Choirs and the Roanoke Valley Children’s Choir. Join the RSO and be a part of the holiday concert celebration!
For more information, or for tickets, call 343-9127.
