Performances + Events
Song and Verse: Ophelia
Burnes Hall
Working closely with Vocal Arts faculty members, students engage with rich traditions of song composition from around the globe. Committed to diversity, our programs feature both established and emerging composers and poets from across many cultures and traditions. This series creates new opportunities for students to participate with the singular type of storytelling unique to song.
JJ Penna is the pianist and coach for tonight's performers.
Artist(s)
Jialin Han, soprano
Alakananda Nuthalapati, reader, mezzo-soprano
Rachel Solyn, soprano
Giuliana Torti, soprano
JJ Penna, piano, curator
This concert uses the character of Ophelia as a point of departure for themes of trauma, self-realization and discovery. Shakespeare’s original text appears next to more contemporary portraits of rapture and grief: Ophelia is portrayed as lost and found, vulnerable and irrepressible, emotionally endangered and, ultimately, liberated. While the program explores the play’s traditional rendering of gender roles, it also presents moments of resilience and resistance, creating a space where her fragile and convulsive spirit is given life.
WATER SIGHT
(reading)
Phil Collins: In the air tonight
Aaron Jay Kernis: Mornings Innocent
Benjamin Britten: Seascape
Richard Hundley: Waterbird
(reading)
Rebecca Clarke: The Seal Man
(reading)
Billie Eilish O'Connell: What Was I Made For
(reading)
FLOWER SIGHT
Fanny Hensel: Sehnsucht aus Italien
Carlos Guastavino: Flores Argentinas
Jodi Goble: Within My Reach
Alessandro Parisotti: O leggiadri occhi belli
John Dowland: White as Lilies was her Face
(reading)
Amy Beth Kirsten: To See What I See
(reading)
Amalia Crevani: Constellation Heart (Sara Teasdale Songs)
(reading)
