July 17, 2024

CHQ Opera Conservatory

McKnight Hall @ 7:00 - 9:00 pm

Chautauqua's Opera Conservatory residents return to McKnight Hall with another evening of songs by Rota, Tosti, Glinka, Mozart, Rimsky-Korsakov, Brahms, Ravel, Falla, Giannini, and Gordon. 

The Chautauqua Opera Conservatory is an intensive educational program that seeks to offer the highest caliber of training for young singers, 18 and older. Under the leadership of Marlena Kleinman Malas*, a select group of singers will study, coach, and perform in an idyllic setting on the grounds of Chautauqua Institution in western New York State.    

*The Chautauqua Community joins the world in mourning the passing of Marlena Malas on December 4, 2023.  We honor her more than four decades of leadership and service to our Opera Conservatory. 

Arias from “I due timidi”, 1950 

-Nino Rota (1911 – 1979) 

Scene I: Le sette passate.. 

Narrator – Nicholas Gryniewski, baritone 

Scene IX: Un anno pieno di speranze 

Mariuccia – Jennifer Robinson, soprano 

Scene XI: Come stai? Hai dormito?.. 

Signora Guidotti – Alessia Vitali, mezzo 

Non t’amo piu, 1884  

-Paolo Tosti (1846 – 1916) 

The Lark, 1840 

-Mikhail Glinka (1804 – 1857)  

Zhongjianche Deng, tenor 

Emily Reader, harp 

Count’s Aria – “Hai già vinta la causa” (Le nozze di Figaro), 1786  

-Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 – 1791) 

Nicholas Gryniewski, baritone 

Donna Gill, piano 

Snow Maiden’s Aria (The Snow Maiden), 1880 

-Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844 – 1908) 

Charlotte Jakobs, soprano 

Julius Abrahams, piano 

Von Ewiger Liebe, Op. 43, no. 1 

-Johannes Brahms (1833 – 1897) 

Jaimie Langner, mezzo 

Donna Gill, piano 

Don Quichotte à Dulcinée, 1932 

-Maurice Ravel (1875 – 1937)  

Chanson Romanesque 

Chanson à boire 

Joeavian Rivera, baritone 

Julius Abrahams, piano 

Siete canciones populares españolas, 1914 

-Manuel de Falla (1876 – 1946)  

Jota 

Nana 

Canción 

Claire Coven, mezzo 

Julius Abrahams, piano 

Tell me, o blue, blue sky, 1927 

-Vittorio Giannini (1903 – 1966) 

Will there really be a morning?, 1995  

-Ricky Ian Gordon (b. 1956) 

Juliet Rand, soprano 

Donna Gill, piano 

Resident Faculty

Marlena Kleinman Malas*: Director

John Matsumoto Giampietro: Interim Director 

William Burden

Amy Burton

Rachel Calloway

Claudia Catania 

Maxine Davis 

Jenn Pitt

Matthew Worth 

*In Memoriam to Marlena who passed away December 2023*

Guest Faculty

Renée Fleming 

Miloš Repický

Brian Zeger 

Coaches

Julius Abrahams 

Martin Dubé

Donna Gill 

Bénédicte Jourdois 

Kanae Matsumoto Giampietro 

Jinhee Park