Puccini - The Sacred and Profane

16 February | Puccini
Hamer Hall

Puccini's compelling but little known Messa di Gloria, juxtaposed with some of his best loved operatic moments, including music from Madama Butterfly, Tosca, Manon Lescaut, and La bohème, will serve to remind you that there is a good reason for bringing this music to the concert stage.

Be touched by the beauty of Puccini's fragile, doomed heroines, and share the irreverent joy of the Parisian bohemians, always looking for a free dinner. This music is eternal, and when brought to life in concert-form, sung by some of Victoria's finest operatic voices together with the acclaimed Victorian Opera Chorus and the great strength of Orchestra Victoria, we are in for a rich and rewarding evening.

Program:

Richard Gill - Conductor

Messa di Gloria

Tenor                                                         Jamie Allen

Bass                                                           Paul Hughes

INTERVAL

'Scuoti quella fronda' (Flower duet)          Rosamund Illing and Roxane Hislop

      from Madama Butterfly      

'Sola, Perduta, Abbandonata'                   Rosamund Illing

      from Manon Lescaut 

'E lucevan le stelle' from Tosca                  James Egglestone

'Mi chiamano Mimì' from La bohème           Tiffany Speight

'O soave fanciulla' from La bohème           Tiffany Speight and James Egglestone

La bohème Act II

Mimi                                                    Tiffany Speight

Rodolfo                                               James Egglestone

Musetta                                              Suzanne Shakespeare

Marcello                                              Roger Lemke

Schaunard                                          Samuel Dundas

Colline                                                Paul Hughes

Alcindoro                                            Jerzy Kozlowski

Victorian Opera Chorus

Orchestra Victoria