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