Name: For Whom the Bell Tolls
Start: 2022-11-20T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2022-11-20T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Church of the Epiphany

Organization

Symphony Orchestra of Northern Virginia

Rome Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

Jeffrey Sean Dokken

Tenor

Alan Naylor

Robert Jordan

Soprano

Kelly Curtin

Maria

Mezzo-soprano

Eliza Bonet

Pilar

Bass

Sean Pflueger

Pablo

Baritone

Antony Zwerdling

Anselmo

Cosmo Clemens

Rafael

José Sacín

Agustín

Derrick Miller

Fernando

Contralto

Lori Sen

Amalia

Danielle Bendjy

Rosa

Suzanne S. Chadwick

Isabella

Daniel Sherwood

Lorenzo

Santiago Alfonzo Meza

Primitivo

El Sordo

Aurelio Dominguez

Joaquin

Instrumentalist

Luke Wedge

Violin I

Tanya Whisnant

Violin II

Clarinettist

Chris F. Epinger

Clarinet

Adelya Shagidullina

Viola

Cellist

Robert Battey

Cello

Contrabassist

Kate Easton

Double Bass

Pianist

Hee Young Cho

Piano

Minji Nam

English

For Whom the Bell Tolls

Washington D.C.

United States

Church of the Epiphany

For Whom the Bell Tolls Grundstrom

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Hem­ing­way was a larger-than-life personality. In his popular novel, For Whom the Bell Tolls, there is a bit of the author in the character of Robert Jordan,…

For Whom the Bell Tolls Brian Wilbur Grundstrom

About the Opera
Hemingway was a larger-than-life personality.

In his popular novel, For Whom The Bell Tolls, he projects himself in the character of Robert Jordan - an idealistic young American in 1930's fascist Spain who accepts a doomed mission to blow up a bridge.
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Through his lyrical melody-driven music, Brian Grundstrom brings out the emotional depth of the characters and brings new insight to this Hemmingway classic. Using the full versatility of opera, Dorsen's libretto and Grundstrom's music are able to not only explore Hemmingway's themes of trust, loyalty, honor, love, betrayal, fear, pain, loss, and sacrifice but add modern insight into the toxic nature of Jordan's (Hemmingway's) masculinity as his notions of honor clash with the reality of his situation.

For Whom the Bell Tolls by Grundstrom, From (2022/2022), Conductor Jeffrey Sean Dokken, Church of the Epiphany, Washington D.C., United States

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