Mozart’s Requiem
Mozart’s Requiem
Saturday, May 17, 2025
7:30 pm
Greensboro Symphony Orchestra
Maria Valdes, soprano
Stephanie Foley Davis, mezzo-soprano
Zachary Taylor, tenor
Kerry Wilkerson, bass-baritone
Greensboro Symphony Master Chorale
Chelsea Tipton, Principal Guest Conductor
Mozart Ave verum corpus, K. 618
GSO Master Chorale
Mozart Exultate, jubilate K. 165
Maria Valdes
Mozart Requiem, K. 626
Maria Valdes, Stephanie Foley Davis, Zachary Taylor,
GSO Master Chorale
Sponsored by River Landing at Sandy Ridge
This performance is expected to last approximately two hours and ten minutes with one twenty-minute intermission.
Refreshments and restrooms are located in the orchestra, mezzanine, and balcony-level lobbies.
This program represents some of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s most celebrated works. “Ave verum corpus,” featuring the Greensboro Symphony Master Chorale, is a solemn and reverent choral piece that reflects Mozart’s mastery of sacred music.
In “Exultate, jubilate,” Mozart showcases his talent for writing virtuosic and jubilant soprano solos, delivering a captivating performance.
Finally, Mozart’s Requiem is a monumental composition, renowned for its profound emotional depth and intricate counterpoint. Soloists’ add their voices to this powerful work, which stands as one of Mozart’s enduring masterpieces.
Saturday, May 17, 2025
7:30 pm
Additional Purchase Options
- In person // Greensboro Symphony Box Office (Weekdays from 10am – 4:30pm). The Greensboro Symphony’s box office is located in the Greensboro Cultural Center at 200 N. Davie Street, Suite 301.
- In person // Tanger Center Ticket Office (Tu-Sa, Noon-5pm). The Tanger Center’s ticket office is located at One Abe Brenner Pl., between Elm and Davie Streets.
- By phone // Weekdays from 10am – 4:30pm at (336) 335.5456, ext.224
Venue
STEVEN TANGER CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS
300 N. Elm Street at Abe Brenner Place
Greensboro, NC 27401
Parking
VIP Parking, purchasable with a series subscription, is available in the large surface lot directly behind the Tanger Center with access from Lindsay Street. The Bellemeade Street parking deck, accessed from Elm Street or Greene Street, is the nearest city deck; Church Street and Davie Street decks are other nearby options. Street parking is also available, free after 6pm.
Musicology Mixology
The Greensboro Symphony’s pre-concert talks, Musicology Mixology, share insights into the Masterworks program. The conductor and the guest artists frequently join in at the beginning of each presentation.
Musicology Mixology is held in the Koury Room on the third floor of the Tanger Center on the evening of each Masterworks concert. Doors will open at 6:15 p.m. with the lecture component beginning at 6:30 p.m., prior to the 7:30 p.m. concert. A specialty cocktail tied to the concert program is available for purchase for each concert, and audience members can enjoy the concert even more by learning unique details about the works to be performed.
Frequent guest musicologists include Dr. Gregory Carroll, Dr. David Nelson, Dr. Joan Titus and Dr. Lorena Guillen of UNCG, and Dr. Wendy Looker of Guilford College.
American soprano Maria Valdes was recently described as a “first-rate singing actress and a perfectly charming Gilda” (New York Times).
In the 2022-2023 season, Ms. Valdes made her Metropolitan Opera debut covering Papagena in The Magic Flute, returned to Atlanta Opera as Léontine in L’Amant anonyme and Hawaii Opera Theater to portray Lauretta in Gianni Schicchi. Additionally, Ms. Valdes made her San Jose Symphony debut singing Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915 and Carmina Burana and joined the Madison Chamber Music Festival for a recital with tenor John Riesen.
During the 2021-2022 season, Ms. Valdes made her Georgia Symphony Orchestra debut as the soprano soloist in Mahler’s Symphony No. 4, returned to Berkshire Opera Festival for a recital of Mozart selections and made her Hawaii Opera Theater debut as Micaëla in Peter Brook’s La tragedie de Carmen.
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Stephanie Foley Davis was praised by the New York Times in her Glimmerglass Festival debut in The Tender Land as “a poised, touching Ma Moss” and Opera News said she was “a loving, careworn Ma, warm of voice and presence.” Ms. Davis subsequently returned to Glimmerglass to create the role of Mary McCarthy in the world premiere of Jeanine Tesori’s A Blizzard in Marblehead Neck. Of her role debut as Charlotte in Nightingale Opera Theatre’s production of Werther, Cleveland Classical said, “…Foley Davis and Culver were terrific in their singing and in delineating their sadness.”
Ms. Davis has appeared in leading roles throughout the US with companies such as Arizona Opera, Nashville Opera, Glimmerglass Festival, Opera Roanoke, Buffalo Philharmonic, Vero Beach Opera, Nightingale Opera Theatre, Orlando Philharmonic and almost every professional opera company in North Carolina, including Opera Carolina, Piedmont Opera, North Carolina Opera, and Greensboro Opera. Stephanie is excited to return as mezzo soloist in Mozart’s Requiem with the Greensboro Symphony and to NC Opera as Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro for the 2024-25 season. Learn more>
Tenor Zachary Taylor graduated with his M.M. in Voice from UNC Greensboro in 2023, and he received his B.M. in Voice from Towson University in 2020. Zachary first performed with the Greensboro Symphony in 2024’s presentation of Kurt Weill’s The Seven Deadly Sins, where he sang the Father. He is a two-time Apprentice Artist with Des Moines Metro Opera, most recently singing the Second Nazarene in Salome in 2024.
This season, Zachary will be a 2025 Mary Ragland Emerging Artist with Nashville Opera, where he will sing Ralph Rackstraw in H.M.S. Pinafore in January 2025. He also was a 2023-24 Jan Miller Studio Artist with Pensacola Opera, where he sang Ferrando in Così fan tutte, Normanno in Lucia di Lammermoor, and Dr. Blind in Die Fledermaus. Some of his other recent roles include Pang in Turandot with Opera Carolina, Don José in Carmen and Alfred in Die Fledermaus with Music on Site, and Ferrando in Così and the Witch in Hansel and Gretel with UNCG Opera Theatre. Zachary is a 2023 Encouragement Award Winner from the North Carolina District of the Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition.
Kerry Wilkerson is a resonant bass-baritone known for his unique evenness in register and the “amber tone of a lyric baritone with the imposing weight demanded by Handel’s low-lying writing,” as praised by The Washington Post. His debut at Carnegie Hall in June 2017 as the baritone soloist in Vaughan Williams’ Sancta Civitas received rave reviews. Wilkerson’s solo concert career spans from coast to coast, where he has performed renowned oratorios with symphony orchestras, operatic roles and solo recitals.
Recent notable performances include Raleigh in Roberto Devereux with Washington Concert Opera, Benoit/Alcindoro in La bohème with the Jacksonville Symphony and Northern Lights Music Festival, Verdi’s Requiem with the North Carolina Master Chorale, Rossini’s Petite messe solennelle with the Washington Master Chorale, Der Sprecher in Die Zauberflöte with Loudoun Lyric Opera, Dvorak’s Stabat Mater with the North Carolina Master Chorale and Vaughan Williams’ Dona Nobis Pacem with the Air Force Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center. Learn more>