Pretty Yende will make her greatly anticipated debut this month at the Teatro di San Carlo in a special Mozart and Bel canto gala concert with the Orchestra and Chorus of Teatro di San Carlo. Recorded on December 3, the event will be streamed via Teatro di San Carlo’s Facebook page beginning on December 10 at 20:00 CET. Tickets are 1,09€ and provide access to the event from December 10, 20:00 CET through December 13 at 20:00 CET.
Ms. Yende will share the stage with a fantastic group of leading stars in the opera world, including Maria Agresta, Ildar Abdrazakov, Nadine Sierra, and Francesco Demuro. Giacomo Sagripanti conducts.
Program
1) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Overture to Le Nozze di Figaro (1786)
2) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Don Giovanni (1756-1791)
“La ci darem la mano” duettino – Act I
Don Giovanni, Ildar Abdrazakov
Zerlina, Nadine Sierra
3) Gioachino Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia (1816)
“Una voce poco fa” – Act I
Rosina, Pretty Yende
4) Gaetano Donizetti: La Fille du régiment (1839-1840)
“Ah! mes amis, that jour de fete ” – Act I
Tonio, Francesco Demuro
5) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro (1786)
“Canzonetta sull’aria ” , duettino – Act III
Countess d’Almaviva, Pretty Yende
Susanna, Nadine Sierra
6) Gaetano Donizetti: Roberto Devereux (1837)
“E Sara in questi orribili momenti….Vivi, ingrato, a lei d’accanto – Act III
Elisabetta, Maria Agresta
7) Vincenzo Bellini: Overture to Norma (1831)
8) Vincenzo Bellini: Norma (1831)
“Casta Diva” – Act I
Norma, Maria Agresta
9) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Don Giovanni (1756-1791)
“Madamina, il catalogo è questo” – Act I
Leporello, Ildar Abdrazakov
10) Vincenzo Bellini: I Puritani (1834-1835)
“A te, o cara, amor talora” – Atto I
Arturo, Francesco Demuro
11) Vicenzo Bellini: I Capuleti e i Montecchi (1830), Symphony
12) Gaetano Donizetti: L’elisir d’amore (1832)
“Esulti pur la barbara”, duetto – Atto I
Nemorino, Francesco Demuro
Adina, Pretty Yende
13) Gaetano Donizetti: Don Pasquale (1842)
“Che interminabile andirivieni”, coro – Act II
Chorus of Teatro San Carlo
14) Gioachino Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia (1816)
“La calunnia è un venticello”
Don Basilio, Ildar Abdrazakov
15) Gaetano Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor (1835)
“Ardon gl’incensi … Spargi d’amaro pianto”, scena della pazzia – Second Part Act II
Lucia, Nadine Sierra
Photo: Dario Acosta