University of Richmond UR Scholarship Repository Music Department Concert Programs Music 3-20-1998 Currents: La Canterina and Gertie's Head Department of Music, University of Richmond Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarship.richmond.edu/all-music-programs Part of the Music Performance Commons Recommended Citation Department of Music, University of Richmond, "Currents: La Canterina and Gertie's Head" (1998). Music Department Concert Programs. 682. https://scholarship.richmond.edu/all-music-programs/682 This Program is brought to you for free and open access by the Music at UR Scholarship Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Music Department Concert Programs by an authorized administrator of UR Scholarship Repository. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. The University of.Richmond DEPARTMENT OF Music and CURRENTS The ensemble for new-music at the University of Richmond Fred Cohen Artistic Director present LA CANTER/NA an opera buffa in two acts by Joseph Haydn and GERTIE'S HEAD by Richard Pearson Thomas March 20 and 21, 1998 8:00pm Alice Jepson Theatre La Canterina an opera buffa in two acts by Joseph Haydn La Canterina Act I ***brief intermission*** Gertie's Head by Richard Pearson Thomas ***brief intermission*** La Canterina Act II Dramatis Personae La Canterina Don Pelagio, a singing master .............. Keith Jameson tenor Gasparina, a virtuosa ..................... Jennifer Cable soprano Apollonia, stage mother of Gasparina ........ Jeanette Thompson soprano Don Ettore, son of a merchant . Suzanne Stevens mezzo-soprano a Porter ................................ Homer Rudolf Gertie's Head Jeanette Thompson soprano Charles West clarinet Kendra Kulik cello Paul Hanson piano Fred Cohen conductor Orchestra Flute Violin Patricia Werrell Loretta Spicer Carreras Mary Beth Indelicato Jane Hoffmann Julie Hayes Oboe/English Hom Kimberly Forquer Sharon Flingner-Linquist Jessica Gilmore Daniel L.