Gala Concert (Charles Mackerras)

GALA CONCERT TO CELEBRATE THE 7Oth BIRTHDAY OF SIR CHARLES MACKERRAS
San Francisco Opera's Principal Guest Conductor

San Francisco Opera Adler Fellows

San Francisco Opera Orchestra
Kay Stern, Concertmaster

San Francisco Opera Chorus
Ian Robertson, Director

Sandra Bernhard, Stage Coordinator

PROGRAM

Stravinsky, Greeting Prelude (Runnicles)

Handel, Overture, Music for the Royal Fireworks (Mackerras)

Mozart, Le Nozze di Figaro, "Giunse alfin il momento -- Al desìo" -- Rebecca Evans/Mackerras

Dvorák, Rusalka,"Song to the Moon" -- Renée Fleming/Mackerras

Janácek, The Makropulos Case, Prelude and Finale -- Stephanie Sundine/Mackerras

Wagner, Tristan und Isolde, Prelude and Liebestod -- Anne Evans/Mackerras

INTERMISSION

Purcell, Birthday Ode for Queen Mary (excerpts) -- Felicity Palmer, John Mark Ainsley/Summers

Sullivan, Pineapple Poll -- Concert Suite -- Mackerras

Mozart, Don Giovanni, "Madamina" -- Bryn Terfel/Mackerras (Bryn Terfel's West Coast debut)

Strauss, Der Rosenkavalier, Final Trio -- Renée Fleming, Rebecca Evans, Susan Quittmeyer/Mackerras

Verdi, Falstaff, "Tutto nel mondo è burla"
Waite, Hendrick, Foland, Portilla, Croom, Cao, Okerlund, Bishop, Patton, Knezevic
San Francisco Opera Chorus
Mackerras