Thursday, November 21, 2019

Adler Fellows Concert, December 6, 2019


2019 San Francisco Opera Adler Fellows (Photo: Cheshire Isaacs/San Francisco Opera)


The annual year-end Adler Fellows concert is coming up in about two weeks, and as always it's varied and interesting. Eun Sun Kim conducts; she was fabulous in June's Rusalka, so it's likely to be very well conducted.

Here's the program; the missing detail is that tickets will cost $30-65. This concert does tend to sell out, so buy soon.

(I will admit it: I am faintly dubious at a countertenor in Berlioz, as wonderful as Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen is. I once heard a countertenor in the Brahms Four Serious Songs, and that did not work at all.)


THE FUTURE IS NOW: ADLER FELLOWS CONCERT
Friday, December 6, 2019 at 7:30 P.M.
Herbst Theatre, Veterans Building, 401 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco

Featuring the 2019 Adler Fellows:
Mary Evelyn Hangley and Natalie Image, sopranos
Ashley Dixon and Simone McIntosh, mezzo-sopranos
Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen, countertenor
SeokJong BaekZhengyi BaiChristopher Colmenero and Christopher Oglesby, tenors
Christian Pursell, bass-baritone
Kseniia Polstiankina Barrad, pianist/apprentice coach
César Cañón, pianist/apprentice coach

Eun Sun Kim, conductor
San Francisco Opera Orchestra

Kseniia Polstiankina BarradCésar Cañón, Alessandra CattaniJohn ChurchwellPeter GrunbergRobert MolliconePatricia Kristof Moy, and Tamara Sanikidze, musical preparation


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THE FUTURE IS NOW: ADLER FELLOWS CONCERT PROGRAM
Program subject to change.

Overture from Leonard Bernstein’s Candide
San Francisco Opera Orchestra



“Mes amis, écoutez l’histoire” from Adolphe Adam’s Le Postillon de Lonjumeau
Zhengyi Bai as Chappelou




“Al mio piè, perchè?... Di qual amor, di quant’ardor” from Giuseppe Verdi’s Don Carlo
Mary Evelyn Hangley as Elisabetta
Christopher Colmenero as Don Carlo



“Quando avran fine omai… Padre, germani, addio” from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Idomeneo
Natalie Image as Ilia

Kseniia Polstiankina Barrad, harpsichord




“Dopo notte” from George Frideric Handel’s Ariodante
Ashley Dixon as Ariodante

Kseniia Polstiankina Barrad, harpsichord




“Recondita armonia” from Giacomo Puccini’s Tosca
SeokJong Baek as Cavaradossi




“Son stanco, ingiusti numi… Deggio morire, o stelle” from George Frideric Handel’s Siroe
Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen as Siroe
César Cañón, harpsichord



Vaudémont’s Romance from Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta
Christopher Oglesby as Vaudémont




“Qual furor ti trasporta?… Quest’improvviso tremito” from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Lucio Silla
Simone McIntosh as Cecilio
Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen as Lucio Cinna
César Cañón, harpsichord



“Aleko’s Cavatina” from Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Aleko
Christian Pursell as Aleko




Tatiana’s Letter Scene from Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin
Mary Evelyn Hangley as Tatiana




“Une dame de haut parage” from Gioachino Rossini’s Le Comte Ory
Simone McIntosh as Isolier

Zhengyi Bai as Count Ory




“Toi qui m’es apparue” from Jules Massenet’s Cendrillon
Ashley Dixon as Cendrillon

Christopher Oglesby as Prince Charming





“È la solita storia del pastore” from Francesco Cilea’s L’Arlesiana
SeokJong Baek as Federico




“Le spectre de la rose” from Hector Berlioz’s Les Nuits d’Été
Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen




“Ah, tout est bien fini… O souverain, o juge, o père” from Jules Massenet’s Le Cid
Christopher Colmenero as Rodrigue




“Je comprends que la belle aime la militaire… Enfant chéri des dames des grisettes” from Ambroise Thomas’s Le Caïd
Christian Pursell as Michel



“Par le rang… Salut à la France” from Gaetano Donizetti’s La Fille du Régiment
Natalie Image as Marie

Adler Fellows as soldiers




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