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CCM's streaming series continues with Spring Opera Gala concerts

June 17, 2021 | By Curt Whitacre
Director of Marketing and Communications, UC College-Conservatory of Music

The University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music's virtual performance series continues with a pair of Spring Opera Gala concerts, which will be released back-to-back at 7:30 p.m. EDT on June 17 and 18. Watch an excerpt from the June 18 broadcast below.

 

CCM's Spring Opera Gala is a double-casted production: the same repertoire is performed during both broadcasts, but each features a different cast of singers performing arias and duets from such classic Italian operas as Gaetano Donizetti’s L’Elisir d’Amore, Gioacchino Rossini’s Otello and Ruggero Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci.

Each concert stream also begins with a spirited performance of the Overture to Rossini’s L’Italiana in Algeri by the CCM Philharmonia and concludes with a rousing rendition of the “Sola, sola in buio loco” sextet from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Don Giovanni.

CCM Professor of Music and Director of Orchestral Studies Mark Gibson conducts both performances, with musical preparation by Associate Professor of Opera Kathleen Kelly along with Professor of Opera/Voice Coaching and J. Ralph Corbett Distinguished Chair of Opera Marie-France Lefebvre (preparation for the Don Giovanni sextet). See below for complete program and cast information for both broadcasts.

All episodes of CCMONSTAGE Online can be digitally streamed for free. After the premiere broadcast, each installment in this ongoing series will remain available for on-demand viewing on CCM’s websiteYouTube channel and Facebook page.

CCM’s Spring Opera Gala was recorded live in CCM’s Corbett Auditorium on March 26 and 28, 2021. Both performances observed all of the COVID Careful protocols that were required at the time of recording. Video production by MasseyGreenAVP, LLC. Audio production by Joel Crawford Recording. This digital performance series is made possible by support from CCMONSTAGE Online Broadcast Sponsors CCMpower and ArtsWave, and CCMONSTAGE Online Production Sponsors Dr. & Mrs. Carl G. Fischer.

Streaming Premieres

  • Spring Opera Gala 1: 7:30 p.m. EDT Thursday, June 17, 2021
  • Spring Opera Gala 2: 7:30 p.m. EDT Friday, June 18, 2021 

Repertoire and Featured Singers on June 17

Overture to L’Italiana in Algeri by Gioacchino Rossini

Aria: “Ah! Per sempre” from I Puritani by Vincenzo Bellini
Antonio Cruz: Riccardo

Duet: “Esulti pur la barbara” from L'Elisir d’Amore by Gaetano Donizetti
Mishael Eusebio: Nemorino
Rachel Ballitch: Adina

Aria: “Eccomi in lieta vesta … O quante volte” from I Capuleti e i Montecchi by Vincenzo Bellini
Andrea Tulipana: Giulietta

Duet: “Non m’inganni,” from Otello by Gioacchino Rossini
Henry Benson: Otello
Mishael Eusebio: Iago

Duet: “Verranno a te” from Lucia di Lammermoor by Gaetano Donizetti
Yewon Yoon: Lucia
Manfred Anaya: Edgardo

Duet: “Silvio, a quest’ora” from Pagliacci by Ruggero Leoncavallo
Brittany Logan: Nedda
Antonio Cruz: Silvio

Sextet: “Sola, sola in buio loco” from Don Giovanni by W. A. Mozart
Brittany Olivia Logan: Donna Elvira
David Guzma´n: Leporello
Victor Cardamone: Don Ottavio
Amber Monroe: Donna Anna
Alexander Kapp: Masetto
Georgia Jacobson: Zerlina


Repertoire and Featured Singers on June 18

Overture to L’Italiana in Algeri by Gioacchino Rossini

Aria: “Ah! Per sempre” from I Puritani by Vincenzo Bellini
John Siarris: Riccardo

Duet: “Esulti pur la barbara” from L'Elisir d'Amore by Gaetano Donizetti
Henry Benson: Nemorino
Victoria Okafor: Adina

Aria: “Eccomi in lieta vesta … O quante volte” from I Capuleti e i Montecchi by Vincenzo Bellini
Anna Mosoriak: Giulietta

Duet: “Non m’inganni,” from Otello by Gioacchino Rossini
Victor Cardamone: Otello 
Tyler Johnson: Iago

Duet: “Verranno a te” from Lucia di Lammermoor by Gaetano Donizetti
Yuchen Luo: Lucia
Haksung Lee: Edgardo

Duet: “Silvio, a quest’ora” from Pagliacci by Ruggero Leoncavallo
Teresa Perrotta: Nedda
Justin Burgess: Silvio

Sextet: “Sola, sola in buio loco” from Don Giovanni by W. A. Mozart
Brittany Olivia Logan: Donna Elvira
Johan Hartman: Leporello
Tyler Johnson: Don Ottavio  
Teresa Perrotta: Donna Anna
Justin Burgess: Masetto
Christina Hazen: Zerlina


A preeminent institution for the performing and media arts, the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music offers nearly 120 possible majors, along with a wide variety of pre-collegiate and post-graduate programs.

The synergy created by housing CCM within a comprehensive public university gives the college its unique character and defines its objective: to educate and inspire the whole artist and scholar for positions on the world stage.

For more information, please visit us online at ccm.uc.edu.

 

 

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