Sang Joon Park conducts
Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro
at the Amato Opera
Saturday May 30, 2009 7:30 pm
-I am very excited yet saddened to announce that I will be conducting Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro at the beloved Amato Opera on Saturday, May 30th. It's a privilege to have been assigned to this date because on the very next day, Sunday, May 31st, A
nthony Amato himself - now 89 years old - will conduct for the very last time at the company he led for the last 61 years and retire from the music business. I feel extremely fortunate to have been playing for Tony Amato in his orchestra as a flutist for the past 15 years. The big irony is that my father, tenor In Soo Park, now Professor Emeritus at Seoul National University in Korea, sang Rodolfo (La Boheme) and Ernesto (Don Pasquale) for Tony in the early 1980s.
Please read all about Amato Opera on wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amato_Opera
and on closing of The Amato Opera in New York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/13/arts/music/13amat.html?_r=1
Here are some more pictures taken during rehearsals and at my very last performance as Amato flutist!
