Saturday august 16, 2008 at 8:00 p.m.

June Anderson, soprano

Kent Nagano, conductor

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Tickets for this concert are now available at the Maison bel canto as well as the Tibbits Hill Big Top.

June Anderson joins the OSM and Kent Nagano to perform the most beautiful arias and ensembles by Rossini and Donizetti alongside four young singers from the Accademia di Santa Cecilia. Acclaimed on the greatest stages for over two decades, she ranks as one of the most widely recognized interpreters of bel canto in the world today. Her performances include Lucia di Lammermoor in Covent Garden, Semiramide at the Metropolitan and Norma in Chicago.

Kent Nagano and Carlo Rizzari, conductors
June Anderson, soprano
Opera Studio Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
Serena Malfi, mezzo soprano
Juan Noval Moro, tenor
Simone Alberti Scatarzi, baritone
Borja Quiza Martinez, baritone
Delyan Slavov , bass
Orchestre symphonique de Montréal
Doug Han, vocal coach

Gaetano Donizetti, La Fille du régiment, Overture
Gaetano Donizetti, Anna Bolena
" Piangete voi...Al dolce guidami", scena e aria
Gaetano Donizetti, Don Pasquale, Ouverture
Gaetano Donizetti, L'elisir d'amore
"La donne è un animale...Venti scudi!", scena e duetto
Gaetano Donizetti, Lucia di Lammermmoor
"Chi vi frena in tal momento", sestetto
Gioacchino Rossini, Guillaume Tell, Overture
Gioacchino Rossini, Otello
"Assisa a'piè d'un salice...Deh calma, o Ciel", canzone e preghiera di Desdemona
"Che ascoloto! Ohimè! Che dici!", aria di Rodrigo
Gioacchino Rossini, Il barbiere di Siviglia
"Dunque io son...tu, non m'inganni?", duetto
"Ah! Qual colpo!", terzetto
"Fredda ed immobile come una statua", andante e stretta

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