Aria programs are designed to help prepare voice students for the opera stag. The variety of operatic styles on the program makes this evening perfect for music lovers new to opera, and offers seasoned listeners a chance to hear favorites by some of our future stars.
Tonight's program has tage direction by Patricia-Maria Weinmann and Greg Smucker with accompaniment by Damien Francoeur-Krzyzek.
The complete program:
Handel: Furibondo spira il vento (Partenope)
Menotti: Steal Me, Sweet Thief (The Old Maid and the Thief)
Mozart: Del più sublime (La Clemenza di Tito)
Bellini: Ah! Per sempre (I Puritani )
Tchaikovsky: Olga's Aria (Eugene Onegin)
Adams: I am the Wife of Mao Tse-tung (Nixon in China)
Bizet: Je dis que ne rien m’épouvante (Carmen)
Verdi: Il lacerato spirito (Simon Boccanegra)
Mozart: Bester Jüngling (Der Schauspieldirektor)
Mozart: Hai gia vinta la causa (Le nozze di Figaro)
Mozart: Dove sono I bei momenti( Le nozze di Figaro)
Verdi: De miei bollenti spiriti (La Traviata)
Handel: Ombra cara (Radamisto)
Verdi: Caro Nome (Rigoletto)
Handel: L'empio rigor del fato (Rodelinda)
Delibes: Lakmé, ton doux regard( Lakmé)
Schuman: Kiss me not goodbye (The Mighty Casey)
Rossini: Una voce poco fa (Il Barbiere di Siviglia)
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VIRGIL THOMSON