Marilyn Horne's Diamond Anniversary Gala
Thursday at 8 p.m.

 

For nearly five decades, the great American mezzo-soprano Marilyn Horne won the hearts of opera audiences around the world for breathtaking achievements in bel canto singing, whose composers and masterworks she helped restore to the repertory. But her own deepest passion was for recital singing—an art form she could bring to fans both within and beyond the orbit of the great opera houses. Spartan relative to those venues' grand productions, the recital afforded Horne and her contemporaries the richest possible expressive possibilities over a wide geographical area. And to this day through the Marilyn Horne Foundation, she champions the unique artistry and reach of recital singing.

Earlier this year at Carnegie Hall, Horne celebrated her 75th birthday on the same star-studded evening that marked the 15th anniversary of the foundation that bears her name.

Program Content:

Robert Schumann: Die beiden Grenadiere, Op. 49 No. 1

Lester Lynch, baritone
Carrie-Ann Matheson, piano

Georges Bizet: Adieux de l'hotesse arabe

Nicole Cabell, soprano
Carrie-Ann Matheson, piano

Vincenzo Bellini: La ricordanza

Bruce Sledge, tenor
Carrie-Ann Matheson, piano

Sir Edward Elgar: Where Corals Lie, from Sea Pictures, Op. 37

Meredith Arwady, contralto
Carrie-Ann Matheson, piano

Gioacchino Antonio Rossini: Canzonetta spagnuola

Isabel Leonard, mezzo-soprano
Carrie-Ann Matheson, piano

William Bolcom, text Sheldon Harnick: A Song of Praise (world premiere)

Meredith Arwady, contralto
Nicole Cabell, soprano
Isabel Leonard, mezzo-soprano
Lester Lynch, baritone
Bruce Sledge, tenor
William Bolcom, piano
Martin Katz, piano

Camille Saint-Saens: Mon coeur s'ouvre a ta voix, from Samson et Dalila

Dolora Zajick, mezzo-soprano
Warren Jones, piano

Gaetano Donizetti: Una furtiva lagrima from L'elisir d'amore

Piotr Beczala, tenor
Brian Zeger, piano

Ambroise Thomas: Connais-tu le pays, from Mignon

Susan Graham, mezzo-soprano
Brian Zeger, piano

Igor Stravinsky: I was never saner…Come Master, from The Rake's Progress

James Morris, bass-baritone
Brian Zeger, piano

George Frideric Handel: Cara sposa, from Rinaldo

David Daniels, countertenor
Martin Katz, piano

Giuseppe Verdi: O Carlo, ascolta, from Don Carlo

Dmitri Hvorostovsky, baritone
Warren Jones, piano

Johannes Brahms: Wie bist du, meine Konigin

Thomas Quasthoff, baritone
Martin Katz, piano

Antonin Dvorak: Kdyz mne stara maatka zpivat, from Ciganské melodie, Op. 55 B. 104

Karita Mattila, soprano
Martin Katz, piano

Gustav Mahler: Wo die schonen Trompeten blasen, from Des Knaben Wunderhorn

Thomas Hampson, baritone
Warren Jones, piano

Aaron Copland: I Bought Me a Cat

Frederica von Stade, mezzo-soprano
Samuel Ramey, bass
Martin Katz, piano

Gioacchino Rossini: Tanti affetti, from La donna del lago

Joyce Didonato, mezzo-soprano
Brian Zeger, piano

Happy Birthday song

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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