Ravinia 2025 Issue 4

PAVILION 7:00 PM THURSDAY, JULY 31, 2025 CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA EDWIN OUTWATER, conductor LANG LANG, piano YIMIAO CHEN, erhu † PLÍNIO FERNANDES, guitar † CELESTE MORALES, soprano # EDMOND RODRIGUEZ, tenor # GINA ALICE, special guest The Disney Book The Wonderful World of Disney Overture ( Various ) � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � CSO “Beauty & the Beast” from Beauty & the Beast ( Menken, 1991 ) � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � Lang Lang, CSO “We Don’t Talk About Bruno” from Encanto ( Miranda, 2021 ) � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � Lang Lang “Reflection” from Mulan ( Wilder, 1998 ) � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � Yimiao Chen, Lang Lang, CSO The Hunchback of Notre Dame Orchestral Suite ( Menken, 1996 ) � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � CSO “The Bare Necessities” from The Jungle Book ( Gilkyson, 1967 ) � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � Lang Lang “Feed the Birds” from Mary Poppins ( Sherman / Sherman, 1964 ) � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � Lang Lang Aladdin Orchestral Suite ( Menken, 1992 ) � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � CSO “You’ll Be In My Heart” from Tarzan ( Collins, 1999 ) � � � � � � � � � Edmond Rodriguez, Lang Lang, CSO –Intermission– “When You Wish Upon a Star” from Pinocchio ( Harline, 1940 ) � � � Gina Alice ( vocals ), Lang Lang “Dos Oruguitas” from Encanto ( Miranda, 2021 ) � � � � � � � � � � � � � Edmond Rodriguez, Gina Alice ( piano ) “Remember Me” from Coco ( Lopez / Anderson-Lopez, 2017 ) � � � � � Plínio Fernandes, Lang Lang, CSO “Someday My Prince Will Come” from SnowWhite ( Churchill, 1937 ) � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � Lang Lang “Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf” from Three Little Pigs ( Churchill, 1933 ) � � � � � � � � � Lang Lang “Colors of the Wind” from Pocahontas ( Menken, 1995 ) � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � CSO “It’s All Right” from Soul ( Mayfield / arr. Batiste, 2020 ) � � � � � � � � � � � � � Celeste Morales, Lang Lang, CSO “Can You Feel the Love Tonight?” from The Lion King ( John, 1994 ) � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � Lang Lang Tangled Orchestral Suite ( Menken, 2010 ) � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � CSO “It’s a Small World” from Disneyland ( Sherman / Sherman, 1964 ) � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � Lang Lang, CSO “Let It Go” from Frozen ( Lopez / Anderson-Lopez, 2013 ) � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � Lang Lang, CSO PRODUCTIONSUPERVISOR JeffreyM. Markowitz SOUNDENGINEER Kevin Lacy LIGHTINGDESIGNER LIGHTSWITCH/HowardWerner † Ravinia debut # Steans Institute alum Ravinia expresses its appreciation for the generous support of Mainstage Sponsor Megan P. & John L. Anderson . KEVIN MURPHY New York native Kevin Murphy studied piano performance at Indiana University under Men- ahem Pressler and James Tocco, completing a Bachelor of Music, and later studied piano ac- companiment at the Curtis Institute, earning a master’s degree. In 1992 he was invited to be the first pianist and vocal coach to participate in the Lindemann Young Artist Program of the Met- ropolitan Opera, where he was an assistant con- ductor from the following year until 2006, when he was named director of musical studies for the Paris National Opera. Murphy has played harp- sichord continuo with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra in productions of Rossini’s La Cen- erentola and Mozart’s Così fan tutte , The Mar- riage of Figaro , Idomeneo , La clemenza di Tito , and Don Giovanni —also performing that role in productions of several of those opera at Ravin- ia—and traveled with the company on tour to Japan, where he has played and been a musical assistant for the Seiji Ozawa Opera Project. He also regularly collaborates with such artists as Michelle DeYoung, Gary Lakes, Kathleen Bat- tle, Nathan Gunn, Bryn Terfel, Cecilia Bartoli, Frederica von Stade, Plácido Domingo, Renée Fleming, Gerald Finley, Kiri Te Kanawa, and Pinchas Zukerman. Murphy has been a vocal coach at San Francisco Opera’s Merola Program, the International Vocal Arts Institute, Glim- merglass Opera, Tanglewood, and The Juilliard School; an opera coach for the Canadian Opera Company and Netherlands Opera; and a regular adjudicator for the Metropolitan Opera Nation- al Council Auditions. He was director of music administration for New York City Opera from 2008 until 2011, when he joined the faculty of Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music; in 2016, he became co-director in creating Jacobs’s graduate program in collaborative piano. He is Artistic Director of the Tel Aviv International Summer Opera Program and a frequent guest vocal coach with Santa Fe Opera, also joining Los Angeles Opera in that role in 2023. This is Kevin Murphy’s 15th season in performance at Ravinia, where he first appeared in 2004, and his 14th year as Artistic Director of Ravinia’s Steans Institute Program for Singers. He made his Chi- cago Symphony Orchestra debut as a piano so- loist at Ravinia in 2023. RAVINIA.ORG  • RAVINIAMAGAZINE 69 PATRICKGIPSON/RAVINIA