The Southeastern Festival of Song presents songs, poems, and riffs on some of Shakespeare's most memorable characters in an evening of Elizabethan splendor. Shakespeare Remixed features four Wolf Trap Opera Company alumni in collaboration with Kim Pensinger Witman, Director of the WTOC.

PROGRAM:

Cast:
Angela Gilbert, Soprano
Adriana Zabala, Mezzo Soprano
Ross Hauck, Tenor
Ryan Taylor, Baritone
Kim Pensinger Witman, Piano


COUPLET

O Mistress Mine 
    from Twelfth Night -  Roger Quilter
Lover Man 
    Davis / Ramirez / Sherman

ROMEO and JULIET

Delizie Contente 
    from Giasone - Francesco Cavalli
I will 
    John Lennon / Paul McCartney
Bésame mucho 
    Consuelo Velázquez
Take, O take those lips away 
     from Measure for Measure IV, i  - Roger Quilter

ENTR’ACT

Now is the month of Maying 
    Thomas Morley

A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM

Liebeszauber 
    Clara Schumann
I’m a stranger here myself from 
    One touch of Venus - Kurt Weill
Agony 
    from Into the Woods - Stephen Sondheim
Waking Quartet 
    from A Midsummer Night’s Dream - Benjamin Britten

INTERMISSION

HAMLET

Innocent when you dream 
    Tom Waits
Lilac Wine 
    James Shelton
La mort d’Ophélie 
    Hector Berlioz
Blackbird 
    John Lennon / Paul McCartney

COUPLET

Under the Greenwood Tree 
    from In Green Ways, op. 43 - Herbert Howells
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? 
    William A. Aikin

MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING

Comment le Dédain pourrait-il mourir? 
    from Béatrice et Bénédict - Hector Berlioz
Heart, we will forget him 
    Aaron Copland
Bewitched, Bothered & Bewildered / Can’t Stop Talkin’ 
    Rodgers & Hart / Frank Loesser
Silent Noon 
    Ralph Vaughan Williams
Sigh No More, Ladies 
    from the film Much Ado About Nothing - Patrick Doyle
They all laughed 
    George Gershwin / Ira Gershwin