San Francisco Opera Chorus, In Concert: Celebrating Ian Robertson

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PROGRAM:

Excerpts from Te Deum - Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643–1704)
Prelude / Te Deum Laudamus / Te Aeternum Patrem / Pleni Sunt Coeli
Clare Demer, soprano • Sara Colburn, soprano • Whitney Steele, mezzo-soprano • Andrew Truett, tenor • Mitchell Jones, baritone

Chorale (“Wohl mir, dass ich Jesum habe”) from Cantata BWV 147 - Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
Act I Chorus (“Endless Pleasure”) from Semele - George Frideric Handel (1685–1759)
Act II Chorus Scene (“Placido è il mar”) from Idomeneo - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791)
Jesslyn Thomas, Elettra

Act II Chorus (“Heil sie euch Geweihten”) from Die Zauberflöte - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Act I Chorus Scene (“Bel conforto al mietitore”) from L’Elisir d’Amore - Gaetano Donizetti (1797–1848)
Clare Demer, Giannetta

Act II Chorus Scene (“Per te d’immenso giubilo”) from Lucia di Lammermoor - Gaetano Donizetti
Michael Jankosky, Arturo

Act II Humming Chorus from Madama Butterfly - Giacomo Puccini (1858–1924)
Act II Choruses (“Noi siamo zingarelle” and “Di Madride noi siam mattadori”) from La Traviata - Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)
Courtney Miller, Flora • Wilford Kelly, Marquis • William Bryan, Dottore
Act III Chorus (“Va, pensiero”) from Nabucco - Giuseppe Verdi

—INTERMISSION—

Choruses from La Belle Hélène - Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880)
Act I Marche: Voici les Rois de la Grèce / Act III Bacchanale / Act II Chorus: Marche de l’oie
Act II Chorus of the Dead Soldiers (“Our beautiful country”) from Cold Mountain - Jennifer Higdon (b. 1962)
Weathers - Florence Beatrice Price (1887–1953)
“Baïlèro” from Songs of the Auvergne - Joseph Canteloube (1879–1957)
Kathleen Bayler, soprano • Phillip Pickens, tenor

Trois Chansons - Maurice Ravel (1875–1937)
“Nicolette” / “Trois beaux oiseaux du Paradis” / “Ronde”
Angela Moser, soprano • Silvie Jensen, contralto • Alan Cochran, tenor • Mitchell Jones, baritone

Act I Chorus Scene (“We’re goin’ around”) from Treemonisha - Scott Joplin (1868–1917)
Michael Belle, Andy

All Works of Love - Joan Szymko (b. 1957)
Two Mountain Songs - Gabriela Lena Frank (b. 1972)
“Envuelto por el Viento” / “Picaflor Esmeralda”
Invitation to Love - Cava Menzies (b. 1977)
Text by Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872–1906)
WORLD PREMIERE • Commissioned by San Francisco Opera in honor of Ian Robertson

Underneath the Stars - Kate Rusby (b. 1973) (arranged by Jim Clements)
Elizabeth Baker, mezzo-soprano

Finale (“Make our garden grow”) from Candide - Leonard Bernstein (1918–1990)
Jesslyn Thomas, Cunegonde • Chester Pidduck, Candide • Claire Kelm, Old Lady • William O’Neill, Maximillian • Wilford Kelly, Voltaire


San Francisco Opera Chorus:

Nadima Avakian
Buffy Baggott
Elizabeth Baker
Kathleen Bayler
Michael Belle
William Bryan
Cheryl Cain
Janet Campbell
Alan Cochran
Sara Colburn
Clare Demer
Anders Fröhlich
Kevin Gino
Daniel Harper
Harlan Hays
Christopher Jackson
Michael Jankosky
Silvie Jensen
Mitchell Jones
Wilford Kelly
Claire Kelm
Bojan Kneževic Elisabeth Rom Lucio
Courtney Miller
Angela Eden Moser
Sally Mouzon
Sally Porter Munro
Erin Neff
William O’Neill
Rachelle Perry
Phillip Pickens
William Pickersgill
Chester Pidduck
Laurel Cameron Porter
Valery Portnov
Aimée Puentes
Colby Roberts*
Pedro Rodelas
Carole Schaffer
Sigmund Seigel*
Whitney Steele
Nicole Takesono
Jesslyn Thomas
Jere Torkelsen
Andrew Truett
Igor Vieira
*leave of absence