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Nancy Gustafson and Friends: An Afternoon of Opera & Song


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Soprano Nancy Gustafson

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Tenor Vale Rideout

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Baritone Paul LaRosa

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Baritone Matthew Worth

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Justina Lee

Date: September 23, 2007, 4:00 pm

Program Details

Internationally acclaimed soprano Nancy Gustafson--a regular presence at La Scala, Covent Garden and the Vienna State Opera, as well as America's major companies from the Met to San Francisco--has graciously agreed to step in to open our season in Castleton.

She has asked four colleagues from last spring's Castleton Residency to join her in creating a program of Opera and Song, combining classical arias and Lieder with cabaret songs and favorites from musical theatre.

PROGRAM

Schubert: Selections from Die Winterreise, D. 911
     “Erstarrung”
     “Der Lindenbaum”
     “Das Wirtshaus” 

     Vale Rideout, tenor

Poulenc: Selections from Chansons gaillardes (1926)
     “La maîtresse volage”
     “Chanson à boire”
     “Madrigal”

     Matthew Worth, baritone

Donizetti: “Me voglio fa’ ’na casa”
Puccini: “È l’uccellino”
Leoncavallo: “Mattinata”

     Nancy Gustafson, soprano

De Curtis: “Tu ca nun chiagne”
Tosti: “’A vucchella”
Cardillo: “Core ’ngrato”

     Paul LaRosa, baritone

Bizet: “Au fond du temple saint” from The Pearl Fishers 

     Vale Rideout
     Matthew Worth 

Mascagni: “Quella è una strada” from Le maschere

     Paul LaRosa

Lehár: “Meine Lippen, sie küssen so heiss” from Giuditta  

     Nancy Gustafson

Intermission

The second half of the concert, selections from American musical theatre, will be announced from the stage.


Guest Artist(s)

Nancy Gustafson, soprano

Vale Rideout, tenor

Paul LaRosa, baritone

Matthew Worth, baritone

Justina Lee, piano


Location

Theatre House, Castleton Farms
663 Castleton View Road
Castleton ,VA 22716
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