We look forward to another (dry!) Florentine at the Lake this Thursday at 7:00 pm at Alterra Lakefront cafe. It’s the place to be – where else can you spend the night with Rossini, Puccini, Massenet and more, plus hear some selections from our upcoming season?

We’ve got a great program in store :

PERFORMERS:

Tracy Wildt, soprano
Jessica Timman, mezzo-soprano
Matt Richardson, tenor
Doug Clemons, baritone
Anne Van Deusen, pianist
William Florescu, moderator

PROGRAM: (subject to change)

It’s a grand night for singing, State Fair, Rodgers & Hammerstein
Cruda sorte, L’Italiana in Algeri, Rossini
Le femmine d’Italia, L’Italiana in Algeri, Rossini
Si, ritrovarla io giuro, La Cenerentola, Rossini
O mio babbino caro, Gianni Schicchi, Puccini
Una furtiva lagrima, L’Elisir d’amore, Donizetti
Dido’s Lament: When I am laid in earth, Dido and Aeneas, Purcell
Morire, Puccini
Terra e Mare, Puccini
Nana, Siete Canciones Populares Españolas No.5, Manuel de Falla
Adieu, notre petit table, Manon, Massenet
Que fais-tu blanche tourtourelle, Roméo et Juliette, Gounod
Vilja-Lied, The Merry Widow, Lehar
I’m falling in love with someone, Naughty Marietta, Herbert
A Wandering Minstrel, The Mikado, G & S
Sugar in the cane, Blue Mountain Ballads No.4, Paul Bowles
Résumé, Ricky Ian Gordon
Sing along: Good Night Irene, Ledbetter & Lomax