Songs of Love | Feb. 10, 2018

Songs of Love | Feb. 10, 2018

featuring special guest soprano Bergen Baker (website)

Performance at 7:30pm with an “Informance” by Jim Miller at 6:45pm

Thoughts turn to blossoming flowers and blossoming romance with these gorgeous and much-loved melodies. Featuring Bergen Baker, Soprano.

  • Selections from Mozart: Don Giovanni and the Marriage of Figaro, Beethoven: Fidelio, Rossini: The Barber of Seville and William Tell, Bernstein: West Side Story, Porter: Kiss Me Kate, Rodgers: Oklahoma and Carousel and more!

Hailed by the Star Tribune as having a “fetching blend of grace, warmth and humor on stage,” Bergen Baker has been a featured performer with local companies such as Minnesota Opera, The Minnesota Orchestra and Skylark Opera, as well as many operatic and symphonic companies across the country. Currently, she is the Managing Director and a frequent performer for LOFTrecital, a Minneapolis arts organization bringing unique musical experiences to unconventional spaces.

In addition to performance on the operatic and concert stage, Ms. Baker holds a passion for arts education and served as Teaching Artist for Minnesota Opera from 2012-2014. During her tenure, Ms. Baker organized community residencies and performances that served nearly 15,000 opera lovers across the state of Minnesota. Today, she manages the opera study abroad program, Musica nelle Marche LLC, in Urbino, Italy, and remains a highly sought after Teaching Artist, offering residencies, workshops and master classes to students and communities across the country.

Ms. Baker holds Bachelor and Master degrees in vocal performance from DePaul University and the University of Minnesota, respectively.

More info at bergenbaker.com and loftrecital.org


Sponsored by:

Heid Music Foundation logo      NEXT era ENERGY logo  Service League of Manitowoc County logo 

2017-2018 Performance Sponsors:
City of Manitowoc, Sara B. Falk, Heid Music Foundation, Next Era Energy, Elaine Schueler, Service League of Manitowoc County, Karen Steingraber, and the Ruth St. John and John Dunham West Foundation, Inc., The Tom & Virginia Bare Charitable Fund of the Lakeshore Community Foundation
“Songs of Love” Performance Sponsors:
Mark and Michelle Klaiber, The Thomas Finnegan Family

Are you interested in becoming a sponsor? Click here for information!


Program 

 Overture to Don Giovanni, KV 527:
Batti, batti, o bel Masetto (Don Giovanni)
Deh vieni, non tardar (The Marriage of Figaro)
Wolfgang A. Mozart (1756 – 1791)

March from Fidelio   
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 – 1827)

O wär ich schon mit dir vereint (Fidelio)

Prelude to Act I of La Traviata   
Guiseppe Verdi (1813 – 1901)

O mio babbino caro (Gianni Schicchi)   
Giacomo Puccini (1858 – 1924)

Soldiers’ Dances from William Tell 
Gioachino Rossini (1792 – 1868)

Una voce poco fa (Barber of Seville)

Interval – Fifteen minutes

Overture to The Pirates of Penzance  
Arthur Sullivan (1842 – 1900)

If I Loved You (Carousel)
Many A New Day (Oklahoma!
Music: Richard Rodgers (1902 – 1979)
Lyrics: Oscar Hammerstein II (1895 – 1960)
Orchestration: R. R. Bennett  (1840 – 1893)

Lover   
Richard Rodgers (1902 – 1979)
arr, Ralph Hermann

 I Hate Men (Kiss Me Kate)   
Music and Lyrics: Cole Porter (1891 – 1964)
Orchestration: Don Sabesky

 Begin the Beguine
Cole Porter  (1891 – 1964)
arr. Ralph Hermann

Somewhere (West Side Story)
Music: Leonard Bernstein (1918 – 1990)
Lyrics: Stephen Sondheim (1930 – )
Orchestrations: Leonard Bernstein
with Sid Ramin and Irwin Kostal

 

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