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 Baek, Zhengyi Bai, Christopher 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 Barrad, César Cañón, Alessandra Cattani, John Churchwell, Peter Grunberg, Robert Mollicone, Patricia 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