
Utah Opera’s Light on the Horizon

OVERVIEW: In the midst of challenge, it is the hope for a better future that unites us as a community. In Utah Opera’s Light on the Horizon, we look forward to the promise of these better days with highlights from the worlds of opera and musical theatre that weave together a story of darkness turning towards light.


Mahler believed that a symphony should “embrace everything” and, with his mighty Fifth, he created an entire world.
ARTISTS: Marc Albrecht, conductor
PROGRAM: MAHLER: Adagietto from Symphony No. 5 | R. STRAUSS: Suite from Der Bürger als Edelmann (Le bourgeois gentilhomme)


Mahler believed that a symphony should “embrace everything” and, with his mighty Fifth, he created an entire world.
ARTISTS: Marc Albrecht, conductor
PROGRAM: MAHLER: Adagietto from Symphony No. 5 | R. STRAUSS: Suite from Der Bürger als Edelmann (Le bourgeois gentilhomme)


Mahler believed that a symphony should “embrace everything” and, with his mighty Fifth, he created an entire world.
ARTISTS: Marc Albrecht, conductor
PROGRAM: MAHLER: Adagietto from Symphony No. 5 | R. STRAUSS: Suite from Der Bürger als Edelmann (Le bourgeois gentilhomme)


Mahler believed that a symphony should “embrace everything” and, with his mighty Fifth, he created an entire world.
ARTISTS: Marc Albrecht, conductor
PROGRAM: MAHLER: Adagietto from Symphony No. 5 | R. STRAUSS: Suite from Der Bürger als Edelmann (Le bourgeois gentilhomme)


One of today's most exciting young conductors, Armenian-Venezuelan conductor Domingo Hindoyan makes his Utah Symphony debut leading a new work from Roberto Sierra alongside two standards in the orchestral repertoire, Bartók’s Divertimento for Strings and Mozart’s “Jupiter” Symphony.
ARTISTS: Domingo Hindoyan, conductor
PROGRAM: ROBERTO SIERRA: Sinfonietta | BARTÓK: Divertimento for Strings | MOZART: Symphony No. 41 “Jupiter”


One of today's most exciting young conductors, Armenian-Venezuelan conductor Domingo Hindoyan makes his Utah Symphony debut leading a new work from Roberto Sierra alongside two standards in the orchestral repertoire, Bartók’s Divertimento for Strings and Mozart’s “Jupiter” Symphony.
ARTISTS: Domingo Hindoyan, conductor
PROGRAM: ROBERTO SIERRA: Sinfonietta | BARTÓK: Divertimento for Strings | MOZART: Symphony No. 41 “Jupiter”


One of today's most exciting young conductors, Armenian-Venezuelan conductor Domingo Hindoyan makes his Utah Symphony debut leading a new work from Roberto Sierra alongside two standards in the orchestral repertoire, Bartók’s Divertimento for Strings and Mozart’s “Jupiter” Symphony.
ARTISTS: Domingo Hindoyan, conductor
PROGRAM: ROBERTO SIERRA: Sinfonietta | BARTÓK: Divertimento for Strings | MOZART: Symphony No. 41 “Jupiter”


Concertmaster Madeline Adkins takes the stage as featured soloist performing Ralph Vaughan Williams’ lyrical and beloved The Lark Ascending, a tone poem he composed shortly after WWI.
ARTISTS: Thierry Fischer, conductor | Madeline Adkins, violin
PROGRAM: HAYDN: Symphony No. 30 “Alleluia” | VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: The Lark Ascending | SCHOENBERG: Chamber Symphony No. 1


Concertmaster Madeline Adkins takes the stage as featured soloist performing Ralph Vaughan Williams’ lyrical and beloved The Lark Ascending, a tone poem he composed shortly after WWI.
ARTISTS: Thierry Fischer, conductor | Madeline Adkins, violin
PROGRAM: HAYDN: Symphony No. 30 “Alleluia” | VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: The Lark Ascending | SCHOENBERG: Chamber Symphony No. 1


Concertmaster Madeline Adkins takes the stage as featured soloist performing Ralph Vaughan Williams’ lyrical and beloved The Lark Ascending, a tone poem he composed shortly after WWI.
ARTISTS: Thierry Fischer, conductor | Madeline Adkins, violin
PROGRAM: HAYDN: Symphony No. 30 “Alleluia” | VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: The Lark Ascending | SCHOENBERG: Chamber Symphony No. 1


Experience catchy tunes, ancient tales, new combinations of instruments, and deeply personal music all in the same performance!
ARTISTS: Thierry Fischer, conductor | Madeline Adkins, violin | Claude Halter, violin
PROGRAM: J.S. BACH: Concerto for Two Violins | WYNTON MARSALIS: Selections from A Fiddler’s Tale | CARTER: Double Trio | WAGNER: Siegfried Idyll


Experience catchy tunes, ancient tales, new combinations of instruments, and deeply personal music all in the same performance!
ARTISTS: Thierry Fischer, conductor | Madeline Adkins, violin | Claude Halter, violin
PROGRAM: J.S. BACH: Concerto for Two Violins | WYNTON MARSALIS: Selections from A Fiddler’s Tale | CARTER: Double Trio | WAGNER: Siegfried Idyll


Experience catchy tunes, ancient tales, new combinations of instruments, and deeply personal music all in the same performance!
ARTISTS: Thierry Fischer, conductor | Madeline Adkins, violin | Claude Halter, violin
PROGRAM: J.S. BACH: Concerto for Two Violins | WYNTON MARSALIS: Selections from A Fiddler’s Tale | CARTER: Double Trio | WAGNER: Siegfried Idyll


Flutist Demarre McGill, winner of an Avery Fisher Career Grant and the Sphinx Medal of Excellence, performs André Jolivet’s highly challenging Suite en concert, showcasing Jolivet’s unrivaled knowledge of both the flute and percussion instruments.
ARTISTS: Thierry Fischer, conductor | Demarre McGill, flute
PROGRAM: JOLIVET: Suite en concert for Flute and Four Percussionists | BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 1


Flutist Demarre McGill, winner of an Avery Fisher Career Grant and the Sphinx Medal of Excellence, performs André Jolivet’s highly challenging Suite en concert, showcasing Jolivet’s unrivaled knowledge of both the flute and percussion instruments.
ARTISTS: Thierry Fischer, conductor | Demarre McGill, flute
PROGRAM: JOLIVET: Suite en concert for Flute and Four Percussionists | BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 1


Flutist Demarre McGill, winner of an Avery Fisher Career Grant and the Sphinx Medal of Excellence, performs André Jolivet’s highly challenging Suite en concert, showcasing Jolivet’s unrivaled knowledge of both the flute and percussion instruments.
ARTISTS: Thierry Fischer, conductor | Demarre McGill, flute
PROGRAM: JOLIVET: Suite en concert for Flute and Four Percussionists | BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 1


At the end of a one-of-a-kind season, we offer the “simple gift” of new music paired with some of the most recognizable themes in the orchestral repertoire.
ARTISTS: Thierry Fischer, conductor
PROGRAM: JESSIE MONTGOMERY: Strum | MOZART: Eine kleine Nachtmusik | SCHOENBERG: Chamber Symphony No. 2 |COPLAND: Appalachian Spring


At the end of a one-of-a-kind season, we offer the “simple gift” of new music paired with some of the most recognizable themes in the orchestral repertoire.
ARTISTS: Thierry Fischer, conductor
PROGRAM: JESSIE MONTGOMERY: Strum | MOZART: Eine kleine Nachtmusik | SCHOENBERG: Chamber Symphony No. 2 |COPLAND: Appalachian Spring


At the end of a one-of-a-kind season, we offer the “simple gift” of new music paired with some of the most recognizable themes in the orchestral repertoire.
ARTISTS: Thierry Fischer, conductor
PROGRAM: JESSIE MONTGOMERY: Strum | MOZART: Eine kleine Nachtmusik | SCHOENBERG: Chamber Symphony No. 2 |COPLAND: Appalachian Spring


At the end of a one-of-a-kind season, we offer the “simple gift” of new music paired with some of the most recognizable themes in the orchestral repertoire.
ARTISTS: Thierry Fischer, conductor
PROGRAM: JESSIE MONTGOMERY: Strum | MOZART: Eine kleine Nachtmusik | SCHOENBERG: Chamber Symphony No. 2 |COPLAND: Appalachian Spring

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