Leonard Bernstein: Mass At The Vatican City

Leonard Bernstein: Mass At The Vatican City (2004)

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Timeless traditions and contemporary anxieties clash musically and theatrically in Leonard Bernstein's powerful but rather neglected "Theatre Piece for Singers, Players and Dancers," The dancers are omitted in this semi-staged performance, produced for the Vatican's Jubilee 2000 celebration, but the show's eclectic musical brilliance, its adept mingling and clash of musical styles, its contrasts of hope and anxiety, faith and unbelief, ancient serenity and modern dissatisfaction are all brilliantly conveyed. More than 30 years after its premiere, for the opening of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., Mass still has the impact of this morning's newspaper headlines.

Casts

	Coro di Voci Bianche as Chorus
	Coro del Conservatorio di S. Cecilia as Chorus
	Douglass Webster as Celebrant
	Yvonne Gonzales as
	Charis Fliermans as
	Jan Brockman as
	Jane Horvath as
	Susan Ancheta as
	Lori Rivera as
	Anika Noni Rose as
	Tim Shew as
	Kevin Anderson as
	Peter Bucci as
	Michael Deleget as
	Kirk Mouser as
	Milton Williams as
	Christopheren Nomura as
	Geoffrey Blaidell as
	Gregg Busch as

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