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28 SEP
Greatest Opera Hits SPONSORS Chorus Sponsor: Borak Forte Programme
PROGRAMME Jayce Ogren, conductor Anne-Marie MacIntosh, soprano Charles Sy, tenor Calgary Philharmonic Chorus Mozart
Overture to Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492
4'
Berwald
Overture to Estrella de Soria
8'
Handel
Da tempeste il legno infranto from Giulio Caesare HWV 17 6'
Verdi
Caro nome from Rigoletto
5'
Tchaikovsky
Kuda, Kuda vy udalilis from Eugene Onegin
5'
Stravinsky
Here I stand from The Rake’s Progress
3'
Puccini Intermezzo from Manon Lescaut
5'
Verdi
11'
Triumphal March + Ballet from Aïda
Intermission
20'
Wagner
Feierlicher Zug zum Münster from Lohengrin
4'
Rossini
Si, ritrovarla io giuro from La Cenerentola
7'
Gounod
Je veux vivre from Romeo et Juliette
4'
Stephen Paulus
Pilgrim’s Hymn from The Three Hermits
4'
Puccini
Coro a bocca chiusa from Madama Butterfly
3'
Donizetti
Esulti pur la barbara from L’elisir d’amore
6'
Verdi Brindisi from La Traviata
3'
Bernstein
5'
Make Our Garden Grow from Candide
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Saturday 28 September 2019 / 7:30PM Discovery
Opera is a unique, multi-faceted art form. Where else can your heart and mind be enraptured by equal measures of music and drama? This concert brings you many of opera’s most glorious and beloved melodies, drawn from nearly 300 years of repertoire. Opera appeared in Italy about 1600. The selections from Handel’s Julius Caesar in Egypt (1724) and Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro (1786) demonstrate the early schools of the baroque and classical periods, respectively, when emotions were less open than they became in later operas. The 19th century, the era of Romantic art, produced huge quantities of opera. Many of them are still popular today. In fact, they are the foundation of opera in general. Italian composer Gioachino Rossini is best known for his comic operas. At this concert you will hear an aria from La Cenerentola (Cinderella, 1817). Don Ramiro, Prince of Salerno, pledges that he will find the woman he has just fallen in love with, but who has disappeared. Rossini’s Italian contemporary Gaetano Donizetti composed in the same style of opera as Rossini, known as Bel canto (beautiful singing). The plot of L’elisir d’amore (The Elixir of Love, 1832) tells how Nemorino, a good‑hearted peasant lad, wins the hand of Adina, a wealthy landowner. For countless listeners, the name of another Italian, Giuseppe Verdi, virtually defines the word “opera.” His skill at marrying drama and music is unsurpassed in the history of the art. On the bill are unforgettable melodies from three of his most popular works: Rigoletto (1851), La traviata (1853) and Aïda (1871). The title character in Aïda is an Ethiopian princess, held captive as a slave in Egypt. She is torn between her feelings of patriotism and her love for Radames, an Egyptian general. In Act Two, the Egyptian army under
Rebecca Fay
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