Saturday, October 12, 2013 7:30 p.m.
Free Admission (Doors open at 6:30) Reservations
4 Powerfully Dramatic Soloists 31-Piece Fully Professional Orchestra
16 Brilliant Arias and Ensembles
Composed by Verdi, Mozart, Rossini, Gounod,
Bizet,
Mascagni, Leoncavallo, Delibes, and Puccini
Multi-media Projections and Supertitles by David
Gordon
ARTISTS
Soprano Susan Gundunas – Has been a soloist
with Opera San Jose, the German company of Phantom of the Opera, and the NDR
Symphony, Hamburg. Teaches voice at UC
Berkeley.
Contralto Malin Fritz - Has appeared with the
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, the Houston Symphony, the Estonian National
Opera, and the Metropolitan Opera.
Tenor Christopher Bengochea - Has performanced
with Opera San Jose, Atlanta Opera, Opera Idaho, Opera Canada, the New York
City Chorale Society, the Opera Orchestra of New York, and the Orange County
Symphony.
Baritone Peter Tuff - Has been a member of the
Vienna State Opera, performing often in the Salzburg Festival, and also has appeared as
a soloist at the Imperial Chapel along with the Vienna Choirboys and members of
the Vienna Philharmonic.
Supertitles by David Gordon - Has been a tenor soloist of
international stature, appearing appeared as featured guest soloist with virtually
every major North American symphony orchestra. Serves currently as Director of Education of the
Carmel Bach Festival.
Conductor Carl Christensen- Recently conducting during summers in Central and South America, Dr, Christensen joined Monterey Opera as its music director in 2002 and has been honored by the Arts Council for Monterey
County as a Luminary Champion of the Arts.
“ARIAS in AUTUMN 2013”
October 12, 2013, at 7:30
p.m.
Carl
Christensen, Music Director &
Conductor
David Gordon, Supertitles
Prelude toLa Traviata……………………………........………...…...........…….Giuseppe Verdi
The
Orchestra (1813-1901)
Ah! Dite alla
giovine fromLa Traviata……………….................….…..…
Giuseppe Verdi
Susan Gundunas,
Soprano & Peter Tuff, Baritone
Di provenza il mar
fromLa Traviata….….......................…...….....…
Giuseppe Verdi
Peter Tuff, Baritone
La donna e mobile fromRigoletto………………….….......................…..Giuseppe Verdi
Christopher Bengochea,
Tenor
Soave sia il vento from Così fan tutte ….……..........…….. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Susan
Gundunas, Soprano Malin Fritz,
Contralto (1756-1791) Peter Tuff, Baritone
Di tanti palpiti fromTrancredi..............................................
Gioacchino Rossini
Malin
Fritz, Contralto (1792-1868)
Ah! je ris de me
voir (The Jewel Song) fromFaust
….......Charles-François
Gounod
Susan Gundunas,
Soprano (1818-1893)
Au fond du temple saint fromLes
Pêcheurs de Perles…………….…....
Georges Bizet
Christopher Bengochea, Tenor & Peter Tuff, Baritone (1838-1875)
Intermission
Intermezzo
Sinfonico fromCavalleria Rusticana …...................… Pietro Mascagni
The
Orchestra (1863-1945)
Voi lo sapete fromCavalleria
Rusticana ….......................................…
Mascagni
Malin Fritz, Contralto
È sogno? o realtà fromFalstaff …………………........................……....…………..... Verdi
Peter Tuff, Baritone
Vesti la giubba fromPagliacci ……………….........…...…….………... Ruggero Leoncavallo
Christopher
Bengochea, Tenor(1857-1919)
Sous le Dôme épais (Flower Duet) from Lakmé ……………....................
Léo Delibes
Susan
Gundunas, Soprano & Malin Fritz, Contralto (1836-1891)
Dio che nell’alma
infondere fromDon Carlo ………………….……….......………….....
Verdi
Christopher
Bengochea, Tenor & Peter Tuff, Baritone
O mio babbino caro
from Gianni Schicchi................................ Giacomo
Puccini
Susan Gundunas,
Soprano (1858-1924) Bella figlia dell’
amore fromRigoletto……………………………….......…... Giuseppe
Verdi
The Quartet
