Programme

‍Ruggero Leoncavallo
Overture to “Pagliacci”
Si puó? (Tonio’s prologue from “Pagliacci”)
Qual fiamma avea nel guardo … Stridono lassù (Nedda’s aria from “Pagliacci”)

Giuseppe Verdi
Vanne … Credo in un Dio crudel (Iago’s Credo from “Otello”)
Mercè, dilette amiche (Elena’s aria from  “Les vêpres siciliennes”)

Giacomo Puccini
Intermezzo Act III  (Manon Lescaut)
In quelle trine morbide  (Manon’s aria from “Manon Lescaut”)

Benjamin Britten
Dawn (Four Sea Interludes op. 33a from “Peter Grimes”)
Look! Through the port comes the moonshine astray (Billy’s aria from “Billy Budd” op. 50)

‍Interval

‍Jules Massenet
De cet affreux combat … Pleurez, mes yeux  (Ximene’s aria from “Le Cid”)

Charles Gounod
Avant de quitter ces lieux (Valentin’s aria from “Faust”)

Jules Massenet
Celui dont la parole efface toutes peines (Salome’s aria from “Herodiade”)

Jacques Offenbach
Scintille, diamant (Dappertutto’s aria from “Les contes d’Hoffmann”)

Pyotr Ilyitch Tchaikovsky
Polonaise (from “Eugen Onegin”)
Closing scene (from “Eugen Onegin”)

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