San Francisco Opera Chorus, In Concert

PROGRAM (see also cast page/program link):

Selections from Messe Solennelle en l’Honneur de Sainte-Cécile (Charles Gounod)
     Kyrie (Jesslyn Thomas, Kevin Gino, Harlan Hays)
     Gloria in excelsis (Liesl McPherrin, Phillip Pickens, John Fulton)
     Benedictus (Danielle Cheiken)
Selections from Semele (George Frideric Handel, composer; William Congreve, text)
     “Avert these omens”
     “O terror and astonishment” (Sarah Nadreau)
     “Happy, happy shall we be”
Ave Maria from Quattro Pezzi Sacri (Giuseppe Verdi)
Four Quartets, Op. 92 (Johannes Brahms)
     “O schöne Nacht” (Georg Friedrich Daumer, text)
     “Spätherbst” (Hermann Allmers, text)
     “Abendlied” (Friedrich Hebbel, text)
     “Warum?” (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, text)
A Winter Breviary (Reena Esmail, composer; Rebecca Gayle Howell, text)
     “We look for you”
     “The year’s midnight”
     “The unexpected early hour”
“I Will Be Earth” (Gwyneth Walker, composer; May Swenson, text)
“Crossing the Bar” (Gwyneth Walker, composer; Alfred, Lord Tennyson, text)