Archives: Events

LMC Opera: Russian Opera of the 19th Century

Antonida’s Romance from A life for the Tsar by by Mikhail Glinka (1804-1857)

Meg Daly, soprano as Antonida

Ruslan and Lyudmila Illustrated by Leonid Vladimirsky

“Dream divine, enchanting sight!” from Ruslan and Lyudmila by Mikhail Glinka

Janene Nelson, mezzo soprano as Ratmir

“Days of love and fond affection” from Rusalka by Alexander Sergeyevich Dargomyzhsky (1813-1869)

Dawn Padula, mezzo soprano as the Princess

Tamara’s Romance from The Demon by Anton Rubinstein (1829-1894)

Regina Thomas, soprano as Tamara

“Forces of prophecy” from Khovanschina by Modest Musorgsky (1839-1889)

Dawn Padula, mezzo soprano as Marfa

“Ah! I weep, I weep bitterly” (Yaroslavna’s Lament) from Prince Igor by Alexander Borodin (1833-1887)

Regina Thomas, soprano as Yaroslavna

“Says the Rain Cloud to the the thunder one day” from The Snow Maiden by Nicolay Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908)

Janene Nelson, mezzo soprano as Lel

Hymn to the Sun from The Golden Cockerel by Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov

Meg Daly, soprano as the Queen of Shemakha

“Ah, I am worn out with grief” from The Queen of Spades by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)

Regina Thomas, soprano as Lisa

“Have you not heard?” (Act I, Scene I quartet) from Eugene Onegin by Pyotr Ilyich Tchoikovsky

Piano, Maria Khavin

Piano music by Liszt, Ravel, Rachmaninoff and Water: A song recital

Sonetto No. 123 del Petrarca by Franz Liszt (1811 – 1886)

Valses nobles et sentimentales  by Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)

Etude-Tableau in G minor, Op. 33, No. 8  by Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873 – 1943)
Lilacs, Op. 21, No.5

Joyce Gibb, piano

Růžena Maturová as the first Rusalka, the tragic water sprite.

Die Forelle (The trout) by Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Er ist gekommen in Sturm und Regen (He came in storm and rain) by Clara Schumann (1819-1896)
Die Lorelei (The Lorelei) by Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
Il pleure dans mon coeur (There is weeping in my heart) by Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Spring Waters by Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1941)
“Rusalka’s song to the moon” from Rusalka by Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904)

Amber Rose Johnson, soprano and Asta Vaicekonis, piano

Songs by Janet Anderson, LMC Opera: America in the 20th Century

For Snow by Janet Anderson (b. 1967)

  1. Snow-Flakes (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
  2. Silver Filigree (Elinor Wylie)
  3. For Snow (Eleanor Farjeon)

London Songs by Janet Anderson (b. 1967)

  1. A March day in London (words by Amy Levy)
  2. Straw in the street (Amy Levy)
  3. London poets (Amy Levy)
  4. Fog (words by John Davidson)
  5. London’s summer morning (words by Mary Robinson)

Katie Hochman, soprano, and Janet Anderson, piano

LMC Opera presents 20th Century American Opera

“No more pale moon” from Tartuffe by Kirke Mechem (b. 1925)

Clarice Warrick as Marianne and Emily Riesser as Dorine

“Must the winter come so soon?” from Vanessa by Samuel Barber (1910-1981)

Katie Stevenson as Erika

“Who is there to love me?” from A hand of Bridge by Samuel Barber

Amber Rose Johnson as Geraldine

“Kiss me not goodbye” from The Mighty Casey by William Schuman (1910-1992)

Emily Riesser as Merry

 “Isn’t the weather awful” from The Old Maid and the Thief  by Gian Carlo Menotti (1911-2007)

Katie Stevenson as Miss Todd and Molly Tomlinson as Miss Pinkerton

Joan Lundquist, piano
Regina Thomas, direction and narration

Songs and Duets for soprano and mezzo-soprano

“La regata veniziana” (The Venetian boat race) from Soirées musicales by Gioachino Rossini
“Non disperar” (Do not dispair) from Giulio Cesare by George Frideric Handel
“O mio Fernando” from La Favorita by Gaetano Donizetti
“Evening Prayer” from Hänsel und Gretel by Engelbert Humperdinck
An den Mond (To the moon) D.193 by Franz Schubert
Lambertine, D. 301 by Franz Schubert
Gretchen am Spinnrade (Gretchen at the spinning wheel) D.118 by Franz Schubert
“Va! Laisse couler mes larme” (Go! Leave me to cry) from Werther by Jules Massenet
“Près des ramparts de Séville” (Near the ramparts of Seville) from Carmen by Georges Bizet
Au bord de l’eau, (At the water’s edge) Op. 8, No.1 by Gabriel Fauré
“The flower duet” from Lakmé by Léo Delibes
“Amor” (Love) from Cabaret Songs by William Bolcom
“The trees on the mountain” from Susannah by Carlisle Floyd
“Sisters” from White Christmas by Irving Berlin

Molly Tomlinson, soprano
Katie Stevenson, mezzo-soprano
John Burkhardt (guest artist), piano

Mendelssohn piano trio in d minor, Songs by 20th century British composers

Piano trio in D minor, Op. 49 by Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)

  1. Molto Allegro agitato
  2. Andante con molto tranquillo

Ann Rackl, violin
Larry Chu (guest artist), cello
Selina Chu, piano

Songs by David Dubery (b. 1948)

Mobile
The Birds
Remember
One Night in December (Away in a Manger) with Sabine Endrigkeit, recorder

Selections from Sea Pictures, Opus 37 by Edward Elgar (1857-1934)

“In Haven”
“Where Corals Lie”
“Sabbath Morning at Sea”

Gwen Trussler, mezzo soprano and Johanna Mastenbrook, piano

Three Songs to Poems by Robert Graves by David Dubery (b. 1948)

Under the olives
I will write
On giving

Gwen Trussler, mezzo-soprano, Sabine Endrigkeit, recorder, Johanna Mastenbrook, piano