Graduate Opera Handel and Shakespeare Project

The Opera Department at NEC presents a program of Handel Arias and Shakespeare monologues. The selections are performed by graduate Opera students under the direction of Joshua Major, Steven Goldstein, Lisa Saffer, Michael Strauss and Daniel Wyneken. The Saturday program repeats on Sunday.

The following performance features first year graduate voice students and a few graduate diploma students currently enrolled at New England Conservatory. This project has been produced under strict safety restrictions and is a miraculous feat of engineering. The singers filmed in Boston are singing live with accompaniment in real time through headphones. The singers who are not in Boston relied on the smartphone to capture themselves singing live with prerecorded accompaniment. All Shakespeare monologues are filmed on smartphones.

This project is about vulnerability and is designed to push singers out of their normal zones of comfort. Both Handel and Shakespeare expose the human experience in a language that is direct, visceral and disarming. It is overwhelming and inexplicably beautiful to witness young singers embrace this project and bring their full selves to the camera.

Creativity, perseverance and passion never cease. Stay safe and keep supporting each other.

— Joshua Major, Chair of Opera, New England Conservatory
 

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Artists

  1. Shakespeare | “O, for a muse of fire” from Henry V

    Artists
    • Emma Robertson, Chorus

  2. Handel | “Voglio amare Partenope” from Partenope

    Artists
    • Loren Graziano (Partenope), soprano

  3. Shakespeare | “If heaven have any grievous plague in store” from Richard III

    Artists
    • YeonJae Cho, Margaret

  4. Handel | “Dove sei, amato bene” from Rodelinda

    Artists
    • Darby Clinard (Bertarido), mezzo-soprano

  5. Shakespeare | “Thou, nature, art my goddess” from King Lear

    Artists
    • Andrew Stack, Edmund

  6. Handel | “Spietati, io vi giurai” from Rodelinda

    Artists
    • Allyson Bennett (Rodelinda), soprano

  7. Shakespeare | “Unhappy that I am, I cannot heave” from King Lear

    Artists
    • Shuqi Yang, Cordelia

  8. Handel | “Lascia ch’io pianga” from Rinaldo

    Artists
    • Huanhuan Xie (Almirena), soprano

  9. Shakespeare | “I would not be thy executioner” from As You Like It

    Artists
    • Loren Graziano, Phebe

  10. Handel | “Tu sei il cor” from Giulio Cesare

    Artists
    • Yihe Wang (Achilla), baritone

  11. Handel | “Vieni, o figlio” from Ottone

    Artists
    • Lauren Guthridge (Gismonda), soprano

  12. Shakespeare | “No shame but mine: I must, forsooth” from The Taming of the Shrew

    Artists
    • Yuwen Sun, Katherine

  13. Handel | “É gelosia quella tiranna” from Serse

    Artists
    • Emma Robertson (Romilda), soprano

  14. Shakespeare | “Is there no pity sitting in the clouds” from Romeo and Juliet

    Artists
    • Chihiro Asana, Juliet

  15. Handel | “Qual nave smarrita” from Radamisto

    Artists
    • Yuwen Sun (Radamisto), mezzo-soprano

  16. Shakespeare | “Was the hope drunk wherein you dressed” from Macbeth

    Artists
    • Margaret Malone, Lady Macbeth

  17. Handel | “Basta che sol tu chieda” from Rinaldo

    Artists
    • Matthew Christopher (Argante), baritone

  18. intermission

  19. Shakespeare | “My lord, as I was sewing in my closet” from Hamlet

    Artists
    • Darby Clinard, Ophelia

  20. Handel | “Ombre piante” from Rodelinda

    Artists
    • Margaret Malone (Rodelinda), soprano

  21. Shakespeare | “Sir, spare your threats” from The Winter’s Tale

    Artists
    • Allyson Bennett, Hermione

  22. Handel | “Quando mai” from Radamisto

    Artists
    • Chihiro Asano (Zenobia), mezzo-soprano

  23. Shakespeare | “Lo, she is one of this confederacy” from A Midsummer Night’s Dream

    Artists
    • Juliette Kaoudji, Helena

  24. Handel | “Un cenno leggiadretto” from Serse

    Artists
    • Katherine Skafidas (Atalanta), soprano

  25. Shakespeare | “If by your art, dearest father” from The Tempest

    Artists
    • Huanhuan Xie, Miranda

  26. Handel | “Ah, crudel il pianta mio” from Rinaldo

    Artists
    • Shuqi Yang (Armida), soprano

  27. Shakespeare | “This island’s mine, by Sycorax, my mother” from The Tempest

    Artists
    • Josaphat Contreras, Caliban

  28. Handel | “Cieca notte” from Ariodante

    Artists
    • Juliette Kaoudji (Ariodante), soprano

  29. Shakespeare | “When my cue comes call me” from A Midsummer Night’s Dream

    Artists
    • Matthew Christopher, Bottom

  30. Handel | “Io già t’amai” from Rodelinda

    Artists
    • Josaphat Contreras (Grimoaldo), tenor

  31. Shakespeare | “Nay, would I were so anger’d with the same” from The Two Gentlemen of Verona

    Artists
    • Katherine Skafidas, Julia

  32. Handel | “Affanni del pensier” from Ottone

    Artists
    • YeonJae Cho (Teofane), soprano

  33. Shakespeare | “You have done that you should be sorry for” from Julius Caesar

    Artists
    • Yihe Wang, Brutus

  34. Handel | “Neghittosi” from Ariodante

    Artists
    • Angela Yam (Dalinda), soprano

  35. Shakespeare | Epilogue from As You Like It

    Artists
    • Lauren Guthridge, Rosalind
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