Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
A unique evening of opera, musical theatre and song with four of the country’s most exciting young singers. More details to follow soon.
Act 1: Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Make our Garden Grow’ Candide, Bernstein
Voi che sapete’ The Marriage of Figaro, Mozart
Un bel di vedremo’ Madama Butterfly, Puccini
Mein Sehnen, mein Wähnen’ Die Tote Stadt, Korngold
Soave sia il vento’ Cosi fan tutte, Mozart
Che gelida manina’ La bohème, Puccini
Act 2: thou art more lovely and more temperate:
La ci darem’ Don Giovanni, Mozart
Svegliatevi nel core’ Giulio Cesare, Handel
Au fond du temple saint’ The Pearl Fishers, Bizet
Quando m’en vo’ La bohème, Puccini
Since we loved’ Finzi
Ah, Love, but a day’ Beach
Tickling a trout’ Albert Herring, Britten
Bella figlia dell’amore’ Rigoletto, Verdi
Interval
Act 3: thy eternal summer shall not fade
Nessun Dorma’ Turandot, Puccini
O vin dissipe la tristesse’ Hamlet, Thomas
We’ll gather lilacs’ Perchance to Dream, Novello
Sein wir wieder gut’ Ariadne auf Naxos, Strauss
Tonight’ West Side Story, Bernstein
Act 4: and this gives life to thee
Be my love’, Brodsky
Skylark’, Carmichael/Mercer
Song of a nightclub proprietress’, Dring
I have often walked down this street before’ My Fair Lady, Loewe
Song that goes like this’, Spamalot, du Prez/Idle
Brindisi’ La traviata, Verdi
