Philharmonic On Fire!

The Philharmonic on Fire:
Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra
LIVE
at WaterFire Providence

Saturday July 30, 9PM
Turk’s Head Plaza

On Saturday, July 30, the Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Resident Conductor, Francisco Noya, joins WaterFire Providence to present a spectacular evening of live orchestral music performed in the heart of downtown Providence. The Rain date will be on Sunday, July 31 at the same time.

The Orchestra will perform at Turk’s Head Plaza, beginning at 9pm. Approximately 3,000 chairs will be placed in the Plaza for audience members. Tens of thousands more people can listen to the concert while enjoying the flames of WaterFire from anywhere along the WaterFire rivers. The program includes Wagner’s “Ride of the Valkyries,” excerpts from Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition and Mendelssohn’s Scherzo from A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Soprano DIANA MCVEY will join the performance again this season, singing Dvorak's "Song to the Moon" from Rusalka, Puccini's O mio babbino caro and Rachmaninoff's Vocalise. Dancers from Festival Ballet Providence will also dance to Vocalise and Golijov's "Muertes del Angel" from Last Round.

The Philharmonic on Fire! concert is made possible in part by generous donations from the Taco/White Family Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, Capital Properties, Textron, Providence Place Mall, the Rhode Island Foundation and the Rhode Island General Assembly. Additional sponsors and donors are still being sought to support this exciting evening. Interested donors should contact Betty Ann Kearney (401.248.7022 or bakearney@riphil.org) at the Rhode Island Philharmonic.