6:45 p.m. Friends Hospitality
7 p.m. Pre-show Talk
8 p.m. Saturday, December 1, 2018 | Polsky Theatre
$25 - $30 Individual Tickets Season Ticket Package
Underwritten in part by Mark S. and Nancy Gilman
Hailey Clark, soprano, Joshua Guerrero, tenor, Nicholas Brownlee, bass-baritone, Christopher Allen, music director and pianist
Love opera? This concert is for you!
We celebrate the Bel Canto Trio's 70th anniversary with a tour featuring today's internationally acclaimed rising opera stars. The trio will perform the original program that toured the United States in the 1947/1948 season (launching Mario Lanza’s career) with some of operas greatest arias, duets and trios from Rigoletto, Faust, I Lombardi, La Traviata, Manon Lescaut, La Bohème, Il Barbiere di Siviglia and more.
Verdi “Qual voluttà trascorrere” from I Lombardi
Trio
Verdi “Infelice, e tu credevi” from Ernani
Bizet “Quand la flame de l’amour” from La jolie fille der Perth
Nicholas Brownlee
Verdi “Parigi, o cara” from La traviata
Hailey Clark and Joshua Guerrero
Puccini “In quelle trine morbide” from Manon Lescaut
Gounod “Jewel Song” from Faust
Hailey Clark
Donizetti “Ecco il magico liquore” from L’elisir d’amore
Joshua Guerrero and Nicholas Brownlee
Puccini “E lucevan le stelle” from Tosca
Flotow “M’appari” from Martha
Joshua Guerrero
Thomas “Légères hirondelles” from Mignon
Hailey Clark and Nicholas Brownlee
Verdi “Perdon, perdon, Amelia” from Simon Boccanegra
Hailey Clark, Joshua Guerrero and Nicholas Brownlee
Intermission
Beethoven Rondo in C Major
Chopin Valse in C sharp minor
Christopher Allen
Mozart “Farewell Scene” from Die Zauberflöte
Hailey Clark, Joshua Guerrero and Nicholas Brownlee
Verdi “La donna è mobile” from Rigoletto
Joshua Guerrero
Lehar “Nobody Could Love You More” from Paganini
Hailey Clark and Joshua Guerrero
Puccini “Quando m’en vo” (Musetta’s Waltz) from La bohème
Hailey Clark
Rossini “La calunnia” from Il barbiere di Siviglia
Nicholas Brownlee
Gounod “Prison Scene/Trio” from Faust
Hailey Clark, Joshua Guerrero, and Nicholas Brownlee
The Carlsen Center is proud to present the next generation of American opera singers in this tour.
December 1, 2017
6:45 p.m. Friends Hospitality
7 p.m. Pre-show Talk