Program

Overture "Il Re Pastore" (The Shepard King) .................. Italian opera by W.A. Mozart "Il Canto degli Italiani" (The Song of the Italians)................. National Anthem of Italy composed by John De Paola “Wandering Minstrel”..............................................from the comic opera The Mikado by W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan “Parla più piano” (Speak softly) ............................song by Nino Rota and Larry Kusik, popularized in The Godfather movie “The Impossible Dream” ......................................from the musical Man of La Mancha by Mitch Leigh and Joe Darion “Memory”..........................................from the musical Cats by Andrew Lloyd Webber “Anthem” ............................................................... from the musical Chess by Tim Rice Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson “Perfect Symphony” .....................song by Ed Sheeran, popularized by Andrea Boticell “Parlami d’amore Mariu” (Tell Me About Love Mariù) ...............................Neapolitan song by Cesare Bixio “Largo al Factotum” (Make way for the ‘expert’— Figaro).from The Barber of Sevilleby Rossini

INTERMISSION

“Phantom of the Opera Suite”....................from the musical The Phantom of the Opera by Andrew Lloyd Webber “Music of the Night”..................................from the musical The Phantom of the Opera by Andrew Lloyd Webber “All I Ask of You” .......................................from the musical The Phantom of the Opera by Andrew Lloyd Webber “Tu che mi hai preso il cuore” (You who took my heart) ..from The Land of Smilesopera by Franz Lehar “I Dreamed A Dream”.....................................................................from Les Miserables by Claude-Michel Schönberg and Herbert Kretzmer “This Is The Moment”...................................................from the musical Jekyll & Hyde by Frank Wildhorn and Leslie Bricusse “I Could Have Danced All Night” ................................from the musical My Fair Lady by Alan J. Lerner and Fredrick Loewe “Torna a Surriento” (Come back to Sorrento)..............................................Neapolitan song by Ernesto De Curtis “O Sole Mio” (O My Sun) ..........................................................................Neapolitan song by Giovanni Capurro and Eduardo di Capua “Con te partiro” (Time to Say Goodbye)................................... Italian song written by Francesco Sartori and Lucio Quarantotto