For the last concert of the season, WVS welcomes soprano, Amy Hansen. She will be performing selections from La traviata and Le boheme operas. The orchestra will also play Rossini’s Overture to Semiramide, Puccini’s Intermezzo from Manon Lescaut, Mascagni’s Intermezzo from Calalleria rusticana, and Tchaikovsky’s Capriccio Italien. Come 45 minutes early to listen to a pre-concert talk with Artistic Director, Lance Inouye.

Singing across the United States, Europe and Asia, Amy has graced the stages of the National Philharmonic and the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington D.C., North Carolina Symphony, Vermont Symphony, Brooklyn Philharmonic, Opera Orchestra of New York, Taiwan National Theater, Tel Aviv Theater, Teatro di Urbania, Calgary Opera, Edmonton Opera, Michigan Opera and Sacramento Opera among others.

Here in Oregon, you may have heard Ms. Hansen singing soprano solos for Mozart’s Requiem, Dvorak’s Stabat Mater, Verdi’s Requiem, Brahms’ Ein Deutsches Requiem, Haydn’s Creation, and Orff’s Carmina Burana. She is regularly featured at the Astoria Music Festival, with Salem’s Masterworks Chorale and Festival Chorale. Perhaps you saw Ms. Hansen performing with the Oregon Symphony, the Eugene Symphony, Portland Opera, Third Angle, the Portland Symphonic Choir, at the Cascade Festival of Music, or Portland’s Festa Italiana. For Portland Summerfest’s Opera in the Park, in the Washington Park Rose Garden, her roles include Gilda in Rigoletto, Violetta in La Traviata, Micaela in Carmen, and Adele in Die Fledermaus. She has enjoyed singing with Opera Theater Corvallis, Rogue Valley Opera, at Mt. Angel Abbey and River Rythms at Monteith Park.

June 8, 2024, 7 p.m. (talk 6:15 p.m.)  and June 9, 2024, 4:00 p.m. (talk 3:15 pm) at Ashbrook Independent School