OPERA SCENES

Night in a Museum

Marciem Bazell, Ruth L Carver, and Jessica Diana Salley, directors
Richard Jeric and Jonathan Young, accompanists
Vashti Goracke, choreographer
Nicole Jaja, lighting designer
Blair Coppola, stage manager

Night in a Museum
Where song, dance, and opera come alive

PROGRAM

String Quartet in F Major (1902-3) Maurice Ravel
II. Assez vif - Tres rythme (1875-1937)
"The Curator"
Narrator: Vashti Goracke
Museum visitor: Evelyn Wouters
Museum visitor: Brandon Smith
Museum visitor: Willow Parsons

Pierrot (1882)
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Narrator Anna Hacker
Company
Marciem Bazell, director

"Quando me'n vo" from La boheme (1896)
Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924)
Emily Botts Company
Marciem Bazell, director

"A tenor, all singers above" Sir Arthur Sullivan (1842-1900)
from Utopia Limited (1893)
Sir W. S. Gilbert (1836-1911)
Patrick McCoy
Company
Marciem Bazell, director

"If with all your hearts" Felix Mendelssohn
from Elijah, Op. 70 (1846-7) (1809-1847)
Matthew McDowell
Company
Marciem Bazell, director

"Je veux vivre" from Romeo et Juliette (1865-71)
Charles Gounod (1818-1893)
Juliette - Danielle Krispin
Nurse - Zoe Melcher
Ruth Carver, director
** change

"Die Lotosblume" from Myrthen, Op. 25 (1840)
Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Tyler House
Marciem Bazell, director

"Affani del pensier" from Ottone, HWV 15 (1722)
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
Gregory Bohling
Amy Olbert
Aaron Markarian
Jessica Salley - Director

"Chacun a son gout" from Die Fledermaus (1874)
Johann Strauss (1825-1899)
Prince Orlovsky - Zoe Melcher
Company
Ruth L. Carver, director

"Be kind and courteous"
from A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64 (1959-60)
Benjamin Britten
Anna Hacker
Emily Botts
Melissa Edwards
Audrey Horn
Amy Olbert
Marciem Bazell - Director

Act II, Scene 2 from Corps of Discovery (2003).
Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
Michael Ching (b. 1958)
Lost Her Moccasins: Zoe Melcher
Otter Woman: Noelle Smith
Calls Like a Lark: Amy Olbert
Awake at Dawn: Danielle Krispin
Marciem Bazell, director

INTERMISSION

Act II, Scene 7 from Die Zauberflote, K. 620 (1791)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Papgena - Melissa Edwards
Papgeno - Royce Strider
Knabe 1 - Willow Parsons
Knabe 2 - Audrey Horn
Knabe 3 - Evelyn Wouters
Ruth Carver - Director

"I mio ben quando verra" (year) from
Nina, o sia La pazza per amore (c1789-90)
Giovanni Paisiello (1740-1816)
Audrey Horn
Jessica Diana Salley, director

Lydia (c1870).
Gabriel Faure (1845-1924)
Mathew McDowell
Vashti Goracke
Marciem Bazell - Director

"Tornami a vagheggiar" from Alcina,
HWV34 (1728) Handel
Danielle Krispin
Jessica Salley, director

** no vaga luna
Vaga luna
che inargenti (1827-35).
Vincenzo Bellini (1801-1835)
Danielle Krispin
Greg Bohling
Tyler House
Jessica Salley - Director

L'invitation au voyage (1870).
Henri Duparc (1848-1933)
Amy Olbert
Emily Botts
Chris Carbin
Melissa Edwards
Danielle Krispin
Aaron Markarian
Zoe Melcher
Royce Strider
Marciem Bazell - Director

Act III, Scene 1 from Pelleas et Melisande (1893-1902) Debussy
Melisande: Noelle Smith
Pellease: Aaron Markarian
Golaud: Christopher Carbin
Marciem Bazell, director

Je t'implore et je tremble - Iphigenie en Tauride,
Christophe Gluck
Noelle Smith
Vashti Goracke
Marciem Bazell - Director