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CHAN 9971 Book Cover.qxd 15/5/07 3:26 pm Page 1 CHAN 9971(2) CHANDOS CHAN 9971 BOOK.qxd 15/5/07 3:28 pm Page 2 Gian Carlo Menotti (b. 1911) The Saint of Bleecker Street Musical Drama in Three Acts (Five Scenes) Words and Music by Gian Carlo Menotti Annina................................................................................................................................................Julia Melinek soprano Michele, her brother....................................................................................................................Timothy Richards tenor Desideria, Michele’s lover ............................................................................Pamela Helen Stephen mezzo-soprano Don Marco ................................................................................................................John Marcus Bindel bass-baritone Spoleto Festival, Italy Spoleto Festival, Carmela, Annina’s friend ..........................................................................................................Sandra Zeltzer soprano Maria Corona, a newspaper vendor ....................................................................................Amelia Farrugia soprano Assunta ..........................................................................................................................Yvonne Howard mezzo-soprano Salvatore ........................................................................................................................................Vitali Rozynko baritone The Dumb Son of Maria Corona ........................................................................................................Riccardo Bartoli Concettina ............................................................................................................................................Veronica Napoleoni A Young Man..........................................................................................................................................Benjamin Harbold A Young Woman ..........................................................................................................................................Jennifer Check An Old Woman ........................................................................................................................................Heather Lockard Renata..............................................................................................................................................................Nejla Hennard A Man, heard in the distance ....................................................................................................................Angel Oramas A Woman, heard from far away ................................................................................................................Janet Gillespie A Bartender..........................................................................................................................................................Paul Fogle First Guest, a tenor ................................................................................................................................Mark T. Panuccio Second Guest, a baritone........................................................................................................................Levi Hernandez Third Guest ................................................................................................................................................Dennis McVeigh Two Guests, (one tenor, one bass) at Annina’s taking of the veil ......................Andrew Bidlack, Larry Hensel Gian Carlo Menotti Spoleto Festival Choir Donald Nally artistic director, SFC Spoleto Festival Orchestra Richard Hickox 3 CHAN 9971 BOOK.qxd 15/5/07 3:28 pm Page 4 Spoleto Festival Choir 2001 Spoleto Festival Orchestra Italy 2001 Donald Nally artistic director Richard Hickox music director Laura Ward accompanist violin viola James Nelson Hawthorne assistant conductor Vesselin Gellev concertmaster Jennifer Cline principal flute Elizabeth Braden assistant conductor Lisa Dempsey principal second Karen Bea Gary Woodward Robert Phillips chorus administrator Colleen Brannen Colin Benn Joel Tse Chris Hodges chorus manager Burt Callahan Christopher Borg Hilary Lynch (doubling on piccolo) soprano alto tenor bass Janey Choi Renate Falkner Chelsea Czuchra (piccolo in onstage band) Marisa Arzillo Elizabeth Braden Andrew Bidlack David Breen Alexandra Cutler-Fetkewicz Ann Gregg Andrea L. Brown Lesly deGroot James Brown Paul Fogle Anna Genest Louise Hogan oboe Astrid M. Caruso Janet Gillespie Ryan Fleming Steven A. Gearhart Lysiane Gravel-Lacombe Sara Okura Pedro Diaz Jennifer Check Nejla Hennard Trenton J. Green James Nelson Hawthorne Lisa Hanson Jessica Troy Sarah Stack Jocelyn B. Collins Jane Hulting Benjamin Harbold Lawrence Hensel Sakira Harley Sarah Wetherbee Liz Tomorsky (doubling on cor anglais) Kelly M. Foster Stacy A. Karas Samuel Johnson Levi Hernandez Chung-Yon Hong Kathy Linger Jessica Lee Kasinski C. Erik Nordgren Matthew Ryan Hoch Heather Lockard Abigail E. Martin Angel Oramas Chris Hodges Dina Kostic cello clarinet Kathryn Thomas Moyer Christine Nass Mark T. Panuccio Dennis McVeigh Katie Kresek Walter Haman principal William Hudgins Rebecca Rizzo Pamela Simpson Edward Rasmussen Robert Phillips Heather Ledoux-Green Jennifer DeVore Catherine Hudgins (doubling on E flat clarinet) Shari Alise Wilson Anna-Maria Sorrento-Smith Kent R. Schauble Christopher Roselli Dorina Markoff Louise Dubin Bohdan Hilash (doubling on bass clarinet) Rebecca L. Whitlow Hanan Tarabay Richard E. Smith Jnr. Megan McClendon Evie Koh John Wentz Alexandra Mikhlin Andra Lunde bassoon Ana Milosavljevic Alexandra Mackenzie Nicolasa Kuster Kinga Misner Peter Sachom Rod Ackmann Mikylah Myers Benjamin Wyatt Ben Hardyk (doubling on double-bassoon) Andrea Oey Jonathan Parillo double-bass horn Vanessa Rose Dennis Whittaker principal Chris Komer Karen Sanno Dennis Christians Adam Lesnick Jennifer Schiller Hannes Giger Julia Pilant Shawn Weil Trent Hellerstein Ed Tschoepe Ann Winze Matt Medlock Sara Cyrus Peter Paulsen Tom Hale Antoine Plante 4 5 CHAN 9971 BOOK.qxd 15/5/07 3:28 pm Page 6 Spoleto Festival Orchestra Italy 2001 continued trumpet bass trombone harp Louis Hanzlick Mark Fry Isabelle Fortier Billy Hunter Justin Emerich tuba timpani & percussion Kyle Resnick Carson McTeer Michael Geary Adam Green trombone piano Hans Morrison Sean Reed Jennifer Undercofler Richard Pay David Begnoche orchestra librarian Joy Fabos Annina, after her vision, Act I, Scene 1 6 7 CHAN 9971 BOOK.qxd 15/5/07 3:28 pm Page 8 COMPACT DISC ONE Time Page Time Page 12 ‘Michele, Michele!’ – 4:27 97 Act I Annina, Michele Scene 1 13 ‘Sister, I shall hide you and take you away’ – 1:49 101 1 [Introduction] – Michele, Annina ‘Rosa Mystica’ – 3:15 59 14 ‘Veglia su di noi, Santo del Sangue’ 4:47 103 Assunta, Chorus, A Young Man Chorus, Annina, Michele 2 ‘Well… I’m tired of waiting!’ – 3:25 63 TT 51:20 Maria Corona, Assunta, Carmela, Chorus, A Young Woman 3 ‘The vision has begun’ – 3:50 69 COMPACT DISC TWO Don Marco, Chorus 4 ‘Ah, sweet Jesus, spare me this agony’ – 8:30 71 Act II Annina, Chorus 1 [Introduction] – 5 ‘Look! The stigmata!’ – 0:55 75 ‘Hai l’occhio nero, nero della quaglia’ – 6:29 111 Chorus One Tenor, Chorus, One Baritone, Michele, Annina, Carmela, 6 ‘Stop it!’ – 4:44 75 Salvatore, A Guest Michele, Carmela, Chorus, Don Marco 2 ‘Where is Michele?’ – 4:02 117 7 ‘Ah, poor Michele, it is not I your rival’ – 2:49 79 Desideria, Bartender, Michele Don Marco 3 ‘Eh già giovinotti voglion stare attorno a te’ – 3:13 121 8 [Interlude] – 2:09 81 Chorus, Desideria, Michele 4 ‘Ah, Michele, don’t you know that love can turn to hate’ – 3:01 125 Scene 2 Desideria 9 ‘Canta ninna, canta nanna al mio bambino’ – 2:35 81 5 ‘You will regret it’ – 1:46 125 Assunta, Carmela, An Old Woman, Renata, Annina, Man’s Voice, Michele, Don Marco, Chorus, Annina, Salvatore Woman’s Voice, Concettina 6 ‘I know that you all hate me’ – 3:27 129 10 ‘Annina, I’ve something to confess to you’ – 5:45 87 Michele Carmela, Annina, Assunta 7 ‘You are wrong, Michele’ – 1:33 131 11 ‘Annina, Annina!’ – 2:14 91 Don Marco, Annina, Michele Maria Corona, Assunta, Carmela, Annina, Son of Maria Corona 8 ‘Yes, Michele, go home, go, go…’ 6:29 133 Desideria, Michele, Annina, Chorus 8 9 CHAN 9971 BOOK.qxd 15/5/07 3:28 pm Page 10 Time Page Menotti: The Saint of Bleecker Street Act III Scene 1 ‘All of my operas’, says the Pulitzer Prize-winning even as her domestic life collapses in chaos round 9 [Introduction] – composer Gian Carlo Menotti, her. Her cardboard-cut-out husband intercepts a letter ‘Stop worrying, Annina’ – 4:54 143 have a question mark attached to them about things that from their upstairs neighbour (Horrors! He is her Maria Corona, Annina bother me. They are all metaphors for moral or lover!), loaded pistols are brandished, and a smashed 10 ‘There she is’ – 5:18 147 philosophical issues, and I don’t think anybody can really vase helps clear the path to a surprise ending. But Don Marco, Maria Corona, Annina, Michele know what they are about unless they first realise this. beneath the opera’s buoyant surface lies an enduring 11 ‘Weeping, these, for him, are days of weeping’ – 5:20 151 This preoccupation with questions that transcend issue that was to ‘bother’ Menotti over the next four Maria Corona, Annina, Michele their theatrical setting has suffused Menotti’s works for decades. Why should we die, honourably defending over fifty years, but it is too often ignored