OPERA AND OPERETTA
Handel: "E pur così in un giorno...Piangerò la sorte mia" from Giulio Cesare with Susan Wenckus, piano
Rossini: "Una voce poco fa" from Il barbiere di Siviglia (New York Opera Society)
Thomas: "Je suis Titania" from Mignon with Susan Wenckus, piano
Bernstein: "Glitter and Be Gay" from Candide (Southwestern Suburban Symphony)
Ravel: "Air du feu" from L'enfant et les sortilèges with Susan Wenckus, piano
Gilbert & Sullivan: "The Sun Whose Rays Are All Ablaze" from The Mikado (New Philharmonic Opera)
Bel Canto in Thirty Minutes: Teatro Nuovo asked 22 singers to record one arietta each from Vaccai's Practical Method of Italian Singing ("Metodo pratico di canto italiano per camera") using their own equipment at home during COVID-19. With Alisa Jordheim (seen at 15:22), Santiago Ballerini, Lawrence Brownlee, Teresa Castillo, Junhan Choi, Georgia Jarman, Hannah Ludwig, Christine Lyons, Megan Marino, Dorian McCall, Madison Marie McIntosh, Angela Meade, Tamara Mumford, Lisette Oropesa, Daniel Mobbs, Jennifer Rowley, Nicholas Simpson, Michael Spyres, Derrek Stark, Alina Tamborini, Hans Tashjian, and Meigui Zhang.
ART SONG
Grieg: En drøm, Op. 48, no. 6 with Susan Wenckus, piano
Barber: Nuvoletta, Op. 25 with Susan Wenckus, piano
Grieg: En svane, Op. 25, no. 2 with Susan Wenckus, piano
MUSICAL THEATRE
Arlen: "Over the Rainbow" (Tony Bennett arrangement); performed during COVID-19 for the Virtual Appleton North Theatre Celebration
Sondheim: "Losing My Mind" from Follies; "I Have Dreamed - An Alumni Recital" with Yasuko Oura, piano (Florentine Opera)
Gisle Kverndokk/Aksel-Otto Bull: "All the Days Get Brighter" from Letters from Ruth, a new musical based on the diary of Ruth Maier (New York Opera Society, National Gallery of Art). Alisa Jordheim portrays Ruth Maier.
Styne: "I'm the Greatest Star" from Funny Girl with Ruben Piirainen, piano (Florentine Opera)
Willson: "Till There Was You" from The Music Man with Ruben Piirainen, piano (Florentine Opera)
NEW MUSIC
Higdon: Love Sweet - Five Poems by Amy Lowell
1. Apology 2. The Giver of Stars 3. Absence 4. A Gift 5. A Fixed Idea
with Benjamin Hoffman, violin; Allan Hon, cello; Irene Kim, piano (Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra)
1. Apology 2. The Giver of Stars 3. Absence 4. A Gift 5. A Fixed Idea
with Benjamin Hoffman, violin; Allan Hon, cello; Irene Kim, piano (Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra)
Gilliigan: Living in Light with Allan Hon, cello (Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra)
1. Buried Love 2. I Shall Not Care 3. June Night 4. A Little While
1. Buried Love 2. I Shall Not Care 3. June Night 4. A Little While