Looks like a beautiful August night in store tomorrow. Join us on a musical voyage to Italy (with Bernstein and Purcell thrown in for good measure!). You will also have a chance to win a pair of tickets to Rigoletto.
PERFORMERS
Tracy Wildt, soprano
Brianne Sura, mezzo-soprano
R. Stuart Mitchell, tenor
Doug Clemons, baritone
Anne Van Deusen, pianist
William Florescu, moderator
PROGRAM: Journey to Italy
O sole mio (My sun), Capurri/di Capua
Four songs from the Italian Anthology of songs and arias paired with four Puccini songs:
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
Ritorna a me (Return to me), Di Minno/Lombardo
Bella siccome un angelo, Don Pasquale, Donizetti
Questo a quella, Rigoletto, Verdi
Dido’s lament, Dido and Aeneas, Purcell
Steal me, sweet thief, The Old Maid and the Thief, Menotti
Duet: Carried Away, On the Town, Bernstein
Trio: Soave sia il vento, Così fan tutte, Mozart
Arrivederci Roma (Goodbye Rome), Garinei &Giovannini/Rascel
Funiculì, funiculà (Funiculì, funiculà), Turco/Denza
