Arts

Sounds of love fill the air at Bechtler

Valentine’s Day weekend plans still unsettled? Look no further than the Bechtler Museum of Modern Art’s “Music and Museum” program featuring soprano Helen Goldsby. This performance, “Chamber of Love VI: Serenades and Ballades,” will showcase compositions by Rimsky-Korsakov, Rachmaninoff, Fauré and Puccini. The concert will be performed in the fourth-floor gallery on February 15th at 6 p.m. Tickets are $12 for non-members and $8 for museum members.

Tanja Bechtler. Photo by Jon Strayhorn

North Carolina native Helen Goldsby is well known for her operatic roles through the U.S. and abroad, including the Countess in Mozart’s “Le Nozze di Figaro” and Bess in Gershwin’s “Porgy and Bess.” As an actor, she has appeared on the CBS daytime drama “As the World Turns.”

Goldsby will join the Bechtler Ensemble, consisting of violinist Tatiana Karpova, pianist Cynthia Lawing and cellist Tanja Bechtler. The program will include: Rimsky-Korsakov’s “Trio in C minor (first and second movements),” Rachmaninoff’s “Trio élégiaque No. 1 in G minor, Op. 9,” Fauré’s “Morceaux de Nocturne,” Debussy’s “Beau Soir,” Puccini’s “O mio babbino caro” and “Vissi d’arte,” and Charpentier’s “Depis le Jour.”

Doors open at 5:30 p.m. for general seating in the gallery, and the concert starts at 6 p.m. A cash bar will be available before the concert. Concertgoers can park at the Levine Center for the Arts garage at a discounted rate.