Join us tonight at the Italian Community Center’s Cafe La Scala to treat both your ears and your mouth to a delicious taste of Italy!
Reservations are strongly recommended: Call Cafe La Scala at 414-223-2185.
PERFORMERS:
- Tracy Wildt, soprano
- Brianne Sura, mezzo-soprano
- R. Stuart Mitchell, tenor
- Doug Clemons, baritone
- Anne Van Deusen, pianist
PROGRAM:
Please note: As always, program is subject to change.
O sole mio (My sun), Capurri/di Capua
Songs from the Italian Anthology of songs and arias paired with Puccini arias and songs:
Mi chiamano Mimi, La Bohème, Puccini
Vergin, tutt’amor (Virgin, full of love), Durante
Avanti Urania! (Forward Urania!), Puccini
To lo sai (You know full well I love you), Torelli
E l’uccellino (Ninna-Nanna) [And the little bird – lullaby], Puccini
Caro mio ben (Ah, dearest love), Giordani
Terra e mare (Earth and sea), Puccini
Sei tu m’ami (If you love me), Parisotti
Morire? (To die?), Puccini
Nessun dorma, Turandot, Puccini
Ritorna a me (Return to me), Di Minno/Lombardo
Porgi amor, Le Nozze di Figaro, Mozart
Smanie implacabili, Così fan tutte, Mozart
Donne mie, la fate a tanti, Così fan tutte, Mozart
Trio: Soave sia il vento, Così fan tutte, Mozart
Che farò senza Euridice, Orfeo ed Euridice, Gluck
Romanza: Bella siccome un angelo, Don Pasquale, Donizetti
Romanza: Una furtiva lagrima, L’Elisir d’Amore, Donizetti
Il fervido desidero, Bellini
Deh tu, bell’anima, I Capuleti e i Montecchi, Bellini,
Questo a quella, Rigoletto, Verdi
New York Lights, A View from the Bridge, Bolcom
Dido’s lament, Dido and Aeneas, Purcell
Steal me, sweet thief, The Old Maid and the Thief, Menotti
The Flower Duet: Dome épais, le jasmin, Lakmé, Delibes
Duet: Carried Away, On the Town, Bernstein
Maria, West Side Story, Bernstein
Where is the life that late I’ve led, Kiss Me Kate, Porter
The half of it dearie blues, Lady Be Good, Gershwin
Duet: If I loved you, Carousel, Rodgers and Hammerstein
What A Wonderful World, Weiss & Thiele (arr: Brymer)
Arrivederci Roma, Garinei & Giovannini/Rascel
Funiculì, funiculà, Turco/Denza
Even though I haven’t been teaching in higher education since 1999, the middle of August always brings this twinge of anticipation that I’ve gotten since grade school – the approach of Fall and the beginning of school! I suppose if I were to be psychoanalyzed, some of the things we’ve started here at the Florentine could be read as replacement therapy to counteract that “beginning of school” feeling.
