San Francisco Opera Chorus Concert

The San Francisco Opera Chorus is one of the company's glories, and this week they are giving a concert. It's unfortunately on a date when about 90 other good performances are happening (Ermelinda at Ars Minerva, for example!), and it's in the too-small-for-an-orchestra-and-chorus Taube Atrium Theater in the Veterans Building. The second performance, though, is at Old St. Mary's.

Still, they're doing some interesting music, and one might hope that it is indicative of what might be coming up for the company. 

Details:

Friday, November 22, 7:30 p.m., Taube Atrium Theater
Tuesday, December 3, noon, Old St. Mary's, 660 California Street, San Francisco (short version of the program below)

Program:

Act I Villagers’ Chorus (“Quel jour serein”) from Guillaume Tell

 Gioachino Rossini (1792–1868)

Act IV Prayer (“Des cieux où tu resides”) from Moïse et Pharaon

 Gioachino Rossini (1792–1868)

Act I Drinking Chorus (“Evviva! Beviam!”) from Ernani

 Giuseppe Verdi (1813–1901)

Act IV Chorus (“O come felici”) from Ernani

 Giuseppe Verdi (1813–1901)

Nuns’ Chorus (“Ave Maria”) from Suor Angelica

 Giacomo Puccini (1858–1924)

Finale (“O gloriosa virginum”) from Suor Angelica

 Giacomo Puccini (1858–1924)

Act I Chorus of Peasant Girls (“Dyevitsyi, krassavitsyi”) from Eugene Onegin

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840–1893)

Procession of the Nobles (“Slava, voisslavye knyazhnye!”) from Mlada

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844–1908)

Roman Carnival Chorus from Benvenuto Cellini

 Hector Berlioz (1803–1869)

Final Scene from Dialogues des Carmélites

 Francis Poulenc (1899–1963)

Opening chorus from Erschallet, Ihr Lieder (Cantata 172)

 Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)

“Morning Hymn” and “Alleluia” from The Sound of Music

Richard Rodgers (1902–1979)

“Sure on This Shining Night”

 Samuel Barber (1910–1981)

“Northern Lights”

 Ola Gjeilo (born 1978)

Come unto These Yellow Sands

 Amy Beach (1867–1944)

“Alway Something Sings”

 Dan Forrest (born 1978)

“Gondoliera” from Drei Gemischte Chöre

 Clara Schumann (1819–1896)

Spiritual (“What Can That Shadow Be?”) from Colonel Jonathan the Saint

Dominick Argento (1927–2019)

“The Rose”

 Ola Gjeilo (born 1978)

“My Guardian Angel”

 Judith Weir (born 1954)

“Jerusalem”

Charles Hubert Hastings Parry (1848–1918)