Italian Songs, Arias & Duets

SongFestsFairfield is a venue for unmiked singers of tuneful and nostalgic melodies hosted by Freddy Niagara Fonseca, baritone and Margaret Clair, mezzo-soprano.

Guest artists are Ulrike Selleck, soprano, Greg Palma, bass-baritone with accompanists Phil D’Agostino and Patricia Saunders on piano, Bill Blackmore, double bass, and Carol Negro on bassoon. They’ll be performing a program of semi-classical, classical and light songs, arias and duets which many of you will instantly recognize.

Tickets: $7. Please come on time.

Italian Songs, Arias and Duets

Saturday, June 7, 2008, 7:30 p.m. at Revelations

PROGRAM

Cinque...dieci..., Duettino Figaro/Susanna from Le Nozze di Figaro — W. A. Mozart

Ulrike Selleck, soprano, Greg Palma, bass-baritone, Patricia Saunders, piano

Per la gloria d’adorarvi — Giovanni Bononcini

Musica Proibita — Stanislas Gastaldon

Freddy Niagara Fonseca, baritone, Phil D’Agostino, piano, Carol Negro, bassoon

Two songs from song cycle Cinque Canti All'Antica: L'udir talvolta — Ottorino Respighi

Ma Come Potrei — Ottorino Respighi

Margaret Clair, mezzo-soprano, Phil D’Agostino, piano

O del mio dolce ardor — C. W. Gluck

Vecchia Zimarra from La Bohème — Giacomo Puccini

Greg Palma, bass-baritone, Patricia Saunders, piano

Mattinata — Ruggiero Leoncavallo

O sole mio — Eduardo di Capua

Ulrike Selleck soprano, Phil D’Agostino, piano

Torna A Surriento — Ernesto De Curtis

Freddy Niagara Fonseca, baritone, Phil D’Agostino, piano

Duetto buffo di due gatti — Gioacchino Rossini

Mr. Paganini — Sam Coslow

Margaret Clair, mezzo-soprano, Phil D’Agostino, piano, Carol Negro, bassoon

Bill Blackmore, double bass

Sonata in E minor for bassoon and piano — Antonio Vivaldi

Carol Negro, bassoon, Phil D’Agostino, piano

La ci darem la mano, Duettino from Don Giovanni — W. A. Mozart

Ulrike Selleck, soprano, Greg Palma, bass-baritone, Patricia Saunders, piano

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