Opera Night Mission Statement:


Our goal is to foster the production and appreciation of opera and chamber music in the Long Island Community by providing an excellent venue for participating musicians. Opera Night brings together Long Island's finest singers, chamber musicians, and costume designers. Our concert location provides fine acoustics, with a professional accompanist on a Steinway piano.
Opera Night performances have consistently drawn audiences of two hundred or more. We strive to maintain and grow this popularity so that established and emerging performers have a
large and appreciative audience. This, we believe, will foster the development of their art.
Talented singers and musicians are invited to participate regularly, and we welcome new artists.
Our long term goal is to establish an opera house and concert hall in the Huntington area, so that our local community of artists can have a home—a focal point for their talents and aspirations, and a venue that the listening public can think of as a source of consistent artistic excellence.
Our constant goal is to keep our concerts local and affordable, so that this high end art form will be accessible to the community.
Program: October 7, 2011

"Automne"
Gabriel Faure
Jeanny Schwartz, mezzo soprano

"Senza mamma"
Suor Angelica
Giacomo Puccini
Lauren Haber, soprano

"Vilja"
Merry Widow
Franz Lehar
Lia Stengren, soprano

"Steal me, sweet thief"
The Old Maid and the Thief
Gian Carlo Menotti
Danielle Davis, soprano

"Come paride vezzoso"
L'elisir d'amore
Gaetano Donizetti
Stephen Barchi, baritone

"Must the winter come so soon"
Vanessa
Samuel Barber
Frances Fascetti, mezzo soprano


"Ah, non credea mirarti... Ah! non guinge"
La Sonnambula
Vincenzo Bellini
Jessica Stolte Bender

intermission

"Al dolce guidami"
Anna Bolena
Gaetano Donizetti
Lauren Haber, soprano

"Der kleine Sandmann bin ich, st!" (Sandman's Lullaby)
"Hänsel und Gretel"
Engelberlt Humperdinck
Danielle Davis, soprano

"Psyche"
Emile Paladilhe
Jeanny Schwartz, mezzo soprano


"Deh, vieni, non tardar"
Le nozze di Figaro
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Lia Stengren, soprano

"Come scoglio"
Cosi fan tutte
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Jessica Stolte Bender, soprano

"Onegin's aria"
Eugene Onegin
Peter Tchaikovsky
Stephen Barchi, baritone

"Acerba voluta"
Adrianna LeCouvreur
Francesco Cilea
Frances Fascetti, mezzo soprano

"Why do they shut me out of heaven?"
12 Poems of Emily Dickenson
Aaron Copland
Danielle Davis, soprano

"Vissi d'arte"
Tosca
Giuseppe Verdi
Lauren Haber, soprano

Kelly Horsted, piano accompanist



Pre-concert program:

Contrasts, by Bela Bartok.
I. Verbunkos (recruiting Dance)
II. Piheno (Relaxation)
III. Sebes (Fast Dance)
Catherine Brown, clarinet; Laura Mole, violin; Jonathan Bley, piano




Program: August 21st in Oyster Bay

"Que fais-tu blanche tourterelle"
Romeo et Juliette
Charles Gounod
Mary Liz O'Neill, mezzo soprano

"La fleur que tu m'avais"
Carmen
Georges Bizet
Maurizio Casa, tenor

"Si, mi chiamano Mimi"
La Boheme
Giacomo Puccini
Lauren Haber, soprano

"Quia respexit"
Magnificat
Johann Sebastian Bach
Jackie Murphy, soprano

"Mandoline"
Gabriel Faure
Jeanny Schwartz, mezzo soprano

"Resta immobile"
Gugliemo Tell
Gioachino Rossini
Stephen Barchi, baritone

"Toothpaste Time"
Cabaret Songs Vol. 3
William Bolcom
Lorraine Helvick, mezzo soprano

"D'amor sull'ali rosee"
Il trovatore
Guiseppe Verdi
Cheryl Warfield, soprano

intermission

Liza/Pauline Duet
Pique Dame (Queen of Spades)
Peter Tchaikowsky
Cheryl Warfield and Lorraine Helvick

Pauline's aria
Pique dame (The Queen of Spades)
Lorraine Helvick, mezzo soprano

"Mein sehnen, mein wehnen"
Die Tote Stadt
Erich Korngold
Stephen Barchi, baritone

"Tu, tu, piccolo iddio"
Madama Butterfly
Giacomo Puccini
Barbara Divis, soprano

"Voyons que j'essaie"
Carmen
Georges Bizet
Jeanny Schwartz, mezzo soprano

"Heiden-Röslein"
Franz Schubert
Jackie Murphy, soprano

"Forse la soglia attinse...ma se m'e forza perderti"
Un ballo in maschera
Guiseppe Verdi
Maurizio Casa, tenor

"The world feels dusty"
Aaron Copland
Mary Liz O'Neill, mezzo soprano

"Depuis le jour"
Louise
Gustave Charpentier
Lauren Haber, soprano