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Merola Opera Program Merola Opera Program Schwabacher Summer Concert WHEN: VENUE: SATURDAY, BING JULY 7, 2018 CONCERT HALL 7∶30 PM Photo: Kristen Loken Program Schwabacher Summer Concert Kathleen Kelly, Conductor Aria Umezawa, Director Galen Till, Costume Design Eric Watkins, Lighting Design Samuel Barber: Vanessa, Act I: Scene 1 Vanessa: Brittany Nickell Erika: Megan Grey Anatol: Brian Michael Moore Major-Domo: Andrew Moore Giacomo Puccini: Il tabarro, Act II: Scenes 1 and 3 Giorgetta: Marlen Nahhas Frugola: Megan Grey Luigi: Christopher Colmenero Michele: Jaeman Yoon Tinca: Brian Michael Moore Talpa: Andrew Moore Armante: Kendra Berentsen Amante: WooYoung Yoon —INTERMISSION— PROGRAM SUBJECT TO CHANGE. Please be considerate of others and turn off all phones, pagers, and watch alarms. Photography and recording of any kind are not permitted. Thank you. 2 Georges Bizet: Les pêcheurs de perles Act I: “C’est toi, toi qu’enfin je revois… Au fond du temple saint” Act II: “Me voilà seule dans la nuit… Comme autrefois dans la nuit sombre… De mon amie Fleur endormie…Leïla! Leïla!... Ton coeur n’a pas compris le mien” Act III: “L’orage s’est calmé…O Nadir, tendre ami… Qu’ai-je vu?...Je frémis, je chancelle” Leïla: Kendra Berentsen Nadir: WooYoung Yoon Zurga: SeokJong Baek Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Don Giovanni, Act II, Scene 13 Don Giovanni: Xiaomeng Zhang Leporello: Andrew Moore Commendatore: Jaeman Yoon Donna Anna: Brittany Nickell Donna Elvira: Marlen Nahhas Zerlina: Kendra Berentsen Don Ottavio: Brian Michael Moore Masetto: SeokJong Baek This concert is named in memory of Merola’s late Chairman, James Schwabacher, and is graciously underwritten, in part, by the Frances K. and Charles D. Field Foundation, the Jack H. Lund Charitable Trust, The Bernard Osher Foundation, and Leslys Vedder in memory of James Forrest Vedder. Merola’s performance at Bing Concert Hall is sponsored, in part, by David Hugle and Haggai Niv, Dana Horner, and Mrs. Helen Breck and Kirby Wilcox. Kathleen Kelly is sponsored, in part, by Darla and Richard Bastoni, and Bob and Terri Ryan. Aria Umezawa is sponsored, in part, by Miss Ursula Grunfeld and D.G. Mitchell. 3 Synopses Vanessa Unbeknownst to the others, Giorgetta Les pêcheurs de perles Music by Samuel Barber and Luigi are having an affair. Music by Georges Bizet Libretto by Gian Carlo Menotti Frugola, Talpa’s wife, arrives looking Libretto by Eugène Cormon and for her husband. When Tinca claims Michel Carré ACT I, Scene 1 he loves nothing more than to drink, When her lover, Anatol, was called Luigi says drink is the only way to ACT I away 20 years ago, Vanessa covered cope with the futility of life. Frugola “C’est toi, toi qu’enfin je revois… all the mirrors in the house and said dreams of being in a cottage with her Au fond du temple saint” she would not uncover them until cat. Giorgetta imagines life in Paris Anatol returned. Now, at last, she has instead of on the barge, and she and ACT II received word that he is coming. Luigi discover they come from the “Me voila seule dans la nuit… Vanessa, her mother the Baroness, same village just outside Paris. They Comme autrefois dans la nuit and Erika, Vanessa’s niece, prepare for share their happy memories, but sombre…De mon amie fleur his arrival. Erika tries to distract when Michele comes out of the cabin, endormie…Leïla! Leïla!...Ton coeur n’a Vanessa. Vanessa covers her face, as Luigi realizes he cannot bear to share pas compris le mien” she has covered the mirrors. When Giorgetta with her husband. He asks Anatol arrives, she tells him that if he Michele to leave him in Rouen on their ACT III still loves her, she will show him her next trip. However, when Michele goes “L’orage s’est calmé…O Nadir, tendre face. From the shadows, he responds back in the cabin, Luigi agrees to ami…Qu’ai-je vu?...Je frémis, je chancelle” that he believes he will love her. return to the barge for a rendezvous Vanessa throws back her veil and finds with Giorgetta that evening. Giorgetta After a year away, the hunter Nadir returns herself looking at a man twenty years will light a match to tell him it is safe to a pearl-diving village in the Far East, younger than her Anatol. Horrified, to come aboard. After Luigi leaves, where his childhood friend Zurga has Vanessa rushes out. The Baroness Michele returns to the deck. He tries recently been chosen as its leader. Nadir goes to comfort her. The young man to rekindle Giorgetta’s love for him by and Zurga recall how their friendship was explains to Erika that he is Anatol’s recalling the happier days before the almost destroyed when they both fell in son and bears the same name. death of their baby a year earlier. He love with a beautiful Hindu priestess. They reminds her of how all three of them pledge to stay away from her and would fit under his cloak and asks preserve their friendship. But Nadir does Il tabarro why she no longer loves him. not tell Zurga that he spent a night with Music by Giacomo Puccini Giorgetta refuses to respond and the woman and has loved her ever since. Libretto by Giuseppe Adami escapes into the cabin. Tormented by Leïla, the priestess the two friends love, the thought of his wife’s infidelity, knows she is breaking her vows by loving Act II, Scenes 1 and 3 Michele worries Giorgetta has a lover, Nadir. She calms her fears by telling Luigi, Tinca, and Talpa have been but tells himself it can’t be Luigi herself Nadir is watching over her. Nadir unloading Michele’s barge on the because he asked to go to Rouen. comes into her sacred enclosure. They Seine. Michele’s young wife, Giorgetta, Tormented by the thought of his wife’s declare their love, but Leïla warns him that serves them wine as the sun sets. infidelity, he lights his pipe. if they are seen they will be put to death. 4 Photo: Kristen Loken Don Giovanni it is too late. Giovanni laughs. Elvira defiance. While Leporello watches in Music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart leaves, but screams on her way out. terror from beneath the table, the Libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte Giovanni sends Leporello to see what is Commendatore drags Giovanni into the matter. Leporello screams as well the underworld. Donna Anna, Don ACT II , Scene 13 and tells Giovanni that the statue has Ottavio, Donna Elvira, Zerlina, and “Già la mensa è preparata” appeared in response to Giovanni’s Masetto arrive, determined to confront dinner invitation. When heavy knocks Giovanni. Instead they find a shaken Don Giovanni feasts alone in his dining fall on the door, Leporello is too afraid Leporello who relates the horrifying room, attended by his servant, to answer. Giovanni opens the door scene he witnessed. Free of Giovanni, Leporello. Though he has invited the and finds himself staring at the statue the others ponder the future. Ottavio statue of the Commendatore (whom of the man he killed. The wants to marry Anna right away, but Giovanni killed in a duel after attacking Commendatore invites Giovanni to Anna says she needs a year of the Commendatore’s daughter Anna) dine in his realm. Giovanni agrees, but mourning first. Elvira declares she will to dine with him, Giovanni has no when he takes the Commendatore’s enter a convent. Zerlina and Masetto actual expectation of the statue hand, a chill grips him. The head home for dinner. Leporello says appearing. Donna Elvira arrives and Commendatore commands Giovanni he will go to the nearest tavern and begs Giovanni to change his life before to repent, but Giovanni responds with seek out a less challenging employer. 5 Biographies SeokJong Baek, Baritone Kendra Berentsen, Soprano Christopher Colmenero, Tenor Hometown: Jeon-Ju, South Korea Hometown: Portland, Oregon Hometown: Burlington, Vermont Schools: Manhattan School of Music; Schools: Merola Opera Program; Schools: Mannes College; The New Aspen Music Festival and School Eastman School of Music; School for Music; SUNY Purchase; Teachers: Ashley Putnam International Vocal Arts Institute Minnesota Opera Resident Artist; Major Roles or Experience: Giorgio Blacksburg; International Vocal Arts Opera Saratoga; Chautauqua Opera Germont (La traviata); Marcello (La Institute Montreal Teachers: Frank Lopardo, Julia bohème); Gautru (Le roi l’a dit); Tschang, Teachers: Marlena Malas, Deborah Faulkner, Dennis Petersen, Bonnie (Das Land des Lächelns) Birnbaum, Rita Shane, Yelena Kurdina, Hamilton, Jacque Trussel Other Interests: Reading, exercising, Valery Ryvkin, Chuck Hudson Major Roles or Experience: Judge tennis, hiking, meditating Major Roles or Experience: Juliette Danforth (The Crucible); Pablo Neruda Awards: 2017 Extraordinary Prize (Roméo et Juliette); Zerlina (Don (Il Postino); Mavra (Mavra); Le Prince Sonora International Opera Giovanni); Adele (Die Fledermaus); Charmant (Cendrillon); Tamino (Die Competition Francisco Araiza, Mexico; Pamina (Die Zauberflöte); Carolina (Il Zauberflöte); Rinuccio (Gianni Schicchi) 2017 2nd Prize Alfredo Silipigni Vocal matrimonio segreto); Manon (Manon); Other Interests: Family, music, New Competition, New Jersey State Opera; Herz (The Impresario); Serpina (La serva York Yankees, Italian food 2017 2nd prize New Jersey Association padrona); Baby Doe (The Ballad of Baby Awards: 2017 Metropolitan Opera of Verismo Opera; 2016 Doe); Frasquita (Carmen); Flora (The National Council (MONC) Upper Encouragement Award Opera Index Turn of the Screw); Zerbinetta (Ariadne Midwest Regional, 3rd Place; 2017 Vocal Competition, NY; Recipient of auf Naxos); Soeur Constance (Dialogues MONC Minnesota District Winner; 2016 The Mae Zenke Orvis Opera des Carmélites); Gretel (Hänsel und MONC Eastern District Winner; 2015 Scholarship and The Presser Gretel); Cunegonde (Candide) Giulio Gari International Vocal Foundation Scholarship Other Interests: Painting, hiking, Competition Encouragement Award; Upcoming: Resident Artist at Lyric running, teaching 2015 Gerda Lissner International Vocal Opera of Kansas City Competition Encouragement Award; 2014 Richard F.
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