San Francisco Opera 2024 Adler Fellows; Adler Concert

 

War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco

Photo by Lisa Hirsch

San Francisco Opera announced the 2024 Adler Fellows at the beginning of October. Here's the basic information from the press release:

The artists selected as 2024 Adler Fellows are sopranos Georgiana Adams (Chicago, Illinois), Caroline Corrales (St. Louis, Missouri), Arianna Rodriguez (Fairfax, Virginia) and Olivia Smith (Penticton, British Columbia, Canada); mezzo-soprano Nikola Printz (Oakland, California); tenor Thomas Kinch (Cardiff, Wales); baritone Samuel Kidd (Ann Arbor, Michigan); bass-baritones Jongwon Han (Seoul, South Korea) and James McCarthy (Pleasantville, New York) and coaches/pianists Julian Grabarek (Acton, Massachusetts) and Yang Lin (Shanghai, China). Georgiana Adams, Caroline Corrales, Julian Grabarek, Thomas Kinch, Samuel Kidd and James McCarthy are incoming first-year fellows. Arianna Rodriguez, Olivia Smith, Nikola Printz, Jongwon Han and Yang Lin continue in the program as second-year fellows.

 

The Adler program has trained any number of young singers who went on to good careers in opera. It's always nice to be able to say "I knew them when," and the annual Alder concert is a great opportunity to hear these talented singers. Here are the details for the concert, which has a very interesting program:

THE FUTURE IS NOW: ADLERS IN CONCERT

Saturday, December 2, 2023, at 7:30 p.m.

Herbst Theatre, Veterans Building, 401 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco

 

San Francisco Opera Adler Fellows

San Francisco Opera Orchestra

Ramón Tebar, conductor

 

Tickets for The Future Is Now range from $34–$69.

 

PROGRAM (subject to change)

 

Overture from Norma (Vincenzo Bellini)

San Francisco Opera Orchestra

 

"Va, crudele … Vieni in Roma!" from Norma (Vincenzo Bellini)

Gabrielle Beteag, Adalgisa • Moisés Salazar, Pollione

 

"Che più t'arresti … Tacea la notte ... Di tale amor" from Il Trovatore (Giuseppe Verdi)

Nikola Printz, Inez • Mikayla Sager, Leonora

 

"Amor ti vieta" from Fedora (Umberto Giordano)

Edward Graves, Count Loris

 

"Ch'il bel sogno di Doretta" from La Rondine (Giacomo Puccini)

Olivia Smith, Magda

 

"Riez, allez" from Don Quichotte (Jules Massenet)

Jongwon Han, Sancho

 

"Sull'aria" from Le Nozze di Figaro (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)

Olivia Smith, Countess Almaviva • Arianna Rodriguez, Susanna

 

"I was a woman" from prisoner of the state (David Lang)

Nikola Printz, the Assistant

 

"Sometimes th’ pain of missin' him" from Cold Sassy Tree (Carlisle Floyd)

Victor Cardamone, Will Tweedy

 

"Un dì, se ben rammentomi" from Rigoletto (Giuseppe Verdi)

Edward Graves, the Duke of Mantua • Nikola Printz, Maddalena • Arianna Rodriguez, Gilda • Jongwon Han, Rigoletto

 

"Scostatevi ... il Re giunge … Fin dall'età più tenera ... Salirà d'Inghilterra" from Anna Bolena (Gaetano Donizetti)

Jongwon Han, Enrico • Mikayla Sager, Anna Bolena • Victor Cardamone, Percy • Edward Graves, Hervey

 

"Giunse alfin il momento … Deh, vieni non tardar" from Le Nozze di Figaro (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)

Arianna Rodriguez, Susanna

 

"Let me look around once more … To leave, to break" from Vanessa (Samuel Barber)

Olivia Smith, Vanessa • Edward Graves, Anatol • Nikola Printz, Erika • Gabriella Beteag, Old Baroness • Jongwon Han, Old Doctor

 

"Nessun dorma" from Turandot (Giacomo Puccini)

Moisés Salazar, Calaf

 

"Les Troyens … Je vais mourir … Adieu, fière cite" from Les Troyens (Hector Berlioz)

Gabrielle Beteag, Didon • Nikola Printz, Anna • Jongwon Han, Narbal • Victor Cardamone, Iopas

 

"Già che il caso ci unisce … Beva al tuo fresco sorriso" from La Rondine (Giacomo Puccini)

Edward Graves, Ruggero • Olivia Smith, Magda • Arianna Rodriguez, Lisette • Victor Cardamone, Prunier • The Adler Fellows, chorus