See you tomorrow at 7:00 pm for our second Florentine of the Lake this summer. We have a fantastic group of singers and a lovley lineup of summer tunes and opera favorites to present to you! Please note that Thursday is also the first night of summerfest, so you may want to adjust your route or timing accordingly. As always, free parking is available in the Marina Lot across the street from Alterra on a first-come, first-served basis.
PERFORMERS:
Kristan Wrolstad, soprano
Jessica Timman, mezzo
John Stumpff, tenor
Nathan Krueger, baritone
Anne Van Deusen, pianist
Host: William Florescu
PROGRAM (Subject to change):
It’s a grand night for singing, State Fair, Rodgers & Hammerstein
A luce di quest anima, Linda di Chamounix, Donizetti
Questa o quella, Rigoletto, Verdi
Smanie implacabili, Così fan tutte, Mozart
Di provenza, il mar, La Traviata, Verdi
Willow Song, The Ballad of Baby Doe, Moore
Warm as the autumn light, The Ballad of Baby Doe, Moore
Summer, Ricky Ian Gordon*
La Pastorella delle Alpi, Rossini
Must the winter come so soon?, Vanessa, Barber
Lonely House, Street Scene, Weill
How could I ever know, The Secret Garden, Norman & Simon
Oh, is there one maiden breast, The Pirates of Penzance, Gilbert & Sullivan
Some enchanted evening, South Pacific, Rodgers & Hammerstein
Vanilla Ice Cream, She Loves Me, Harnick and Bock
What A Wonderful World, Weiss & Thiele (arr: Brymer)
*More about “Summer“:
“Stephen Wadsworth was creating a piece for the Skylight Opera in Milwaukee, where we both had done a lot of work. He asked me to write a duet for two women, and I thought of two women sitting on a stoop, both in their own worlds, talking about love, ending, with the end of summer… summer like a ripe fruit in its explicitness, its yearning, its heat… and all that brings these two women together now in their wifehood and motherhood, and perhaps, dissatisfaction.” – Ricky Ian Gordon.
