QUIXOTIC OPERA
with pianists Laura Bleakley, Djordje Nesic, Michelle Rofrano, Laurie Rogers
Serenade, “En el cielo de Oriente” – from La venta de Don Quijote (1902) (Ruperto Chapì, Carlos Fernández Shaw)
PASTOR – Jeremiah Tyson, tenor
“Séjour funeste” – from Don Quichotte chez la Duchesse (1743)
(Joseph Bodin de Boismortier, Charles-Simon Favart)
ALTISIDORE – Laura Soto-Bayomi, soprano
DON QUICHOTTE – Steven Ricks, tenor
SANCHO PANÇA – Marcus Lee, tenor
“Se ai voti di quest’alma” – from Il Furioso all’isola di San Domingo (1833)
(Gaetano Donizetti, Jacopo Ferretti)
FERNANDO – Brian Yeakley, tenor
Duet “Beglücktes Jugendleben”
Trio “Wie? Ihr wagt es hier vermessen”- from Die Hochzeit des Camacho (1827)
(Felix Mendelssohn, Friedrich Voigts)
QUITERIA – Lisa Buhelos
BASILIO – Marcus Lee
CARRASCO – De’Ron McDaniel
“Son île! notre île! mon île! mon Palais!” – from Sancho (1896)
(Emile Jaques-Dalcroze, Robert Yve-Plessis)
TERESA – Lauren Cook
“Men Are Fickle” – from Don Quixote (1876)
(Frederic Emes Clay; Alfred Maltby, Harry Paulton)
ALTISSIDORA – Jouelle Roberson, soprano
SANCHICA – Whitney Robinson, mezzo soprano
SAMPSON – Bradley Bickhardt, tenor
NICHOLAS – Blake Jennings, bass baritone
Balcony Scene, “O Dulcinée/Vous allez ameuter alcade, regidor”
– from Don Quichotte (1910) (Jules Massenet, Henri Caïn)
DULCINÉE – Naomi Brigell, mezzo soprano
JUAN – Bradley Bickhardt, tenor
DON QUICHOTTE – Aidan Smerud, bass baritone
SANCHO – Joel Balzun, baritone
“Non fuyades, cobardes, maladrines y viles creaturas”
– from El Retablo di maese Pedro (1922)
(Manuel de Falla, Miguel de Cervantes)
MAESE PEDRO – Jeremiah Tyson, tenor
DON QUIJOTE – Titus Muzi, baritone
Helmet of Mambrino scene – from Don Quixote (1897)
(Wilhelm Kienzl, words and music)
DIE HERZOGIN – Jouelle Roberson, soprano
MARITORNES – Laura Soto-Bayomi, soprano
DER HERZOG – Steven Ricks, tenor
SANCHO PANSA – Bradley Bickhardt, tenor
DON QUIXOTE – Joel Balzun, baritone
DON CLAVIJO – Blake Jennings, baritone
TIRANTE – De’Ron McDaniel, baritone
Opera Saratoga opens its 60th Anniversary Season with QUIXOTIC OPERA, a concert of scenes from operas inspired by Cervantes’ iconic novel that takes us on the adventures of a nobleman named Alonso Quixano, who reads so many chivalric romances that he loses his mind and decides to become a knight-errant to revive chivalry and serve his nation under the name Don Quixote de la Mancha! Presented in partnership with Pitney Meadows Community Farm, the program will feature scenes from Don Quichotte chez la Duchesse (1743) by Joseph Bodin de Boismortier and Charles Simon Favart; Die Hochzeit des Camacho (1827) by Felix Mendelssohn and Friedrich Voigts; Il furioso all'isola di San Domingo (1833) by Gaetano Donizetti and Jacopo Ferretti; Don Quixote (1898) by Wilhelm Kienzl; La Venta de Don Quijote (1902) by Ruperto Chapí and Carlos Fernandez Shaw; Don Quichotte (1910) by Jules Massenet and Henri Caïn; and El retablo de maese Pedro (1923) by Manuel de Falla.
