Music Director & Accompanist: Danielle Orlando
Saturday, October 15, 2016
Resident Artists, accompanied by AVA Master Vocal Coach Danielle Orlando, sing a single aria in competition with each other for prizes awarded by a professional panel of judges and by the audience themselves. Previous Giargiari winners include international opera stars Angela Meade, Richard Troxell, Joyce El-Khoury, Stephen Costello, James Valenti and Latonia Moore, among others.
Last season, fourth-year soprano Vanessa Vasquez took the James Parkinson Opera Foundation First Prize, the Walter and Alice Strine, Esqs., Audience Prize and the WRTI Listener’s Choice Prize – becoming just the fourth singer in 12 years to win all three awards (and just the third to win them all in the same year) joining Jeffrey Halili (2004), Stephen Costello (2005) and Angela Meade (2006/2007).
AVA alumnus William Davenport’s winning aria from the 2011 Giargiari Competition at The Church of The Holy Trinity: “Che gelida manina” from La bohème
Piotr Buszewski
Kuda, kuda | Eugene Onegin
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
Alejandra Gomez
Près des remparts de Séville | Carmen
Georges Bizet (1838-1875)
Meryl Dominguez
Qui la voce | I puritani
Vincenzo Bellini (1801-1835)
Anthony Whitson-Martini
Grazie, grazie, troppo presto | La cambiale di matrimonio
Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868)
Matthew White
Come rugiada al cespite | Ernani
Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)
Ethan Simpson
Ya vas lyublyu | Pique Dame
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
JoAna Rusche
Son pochi fiori | L’amico Fritz
Pietro Mascagni (1863-1945)
Nathan Milholin
Miei rampolli femminini | La cenerentola
Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868)
Mackenzie Gotcher
Ma se m’è forza perderti | Un ballo en maschera
Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)
Timothy Renner
Il balen del suo sorriso | Il trovatore
Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)
Jared Bybee
Largo al factotum | Il barbiere di Siviglia
Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868)
Alexandra Nowakowski
Prendi, per me sei libero | L’elisir d’amore
Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848)
Jonas Hacker
Il tuo sangue, ed il tuo zelo | Ariodante
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
Daniel Noyola
Quand la flamme de l’amour | La jolie fille de Perth
Georges Bizet (1838-1875)
Alasdair Kent
Je crois entendre encore | Les pêcheurs de perles
Georges Bizet (1838-1875)
Hannah Ludwig
Tu, preparati a morire | Ariodante
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
Jorge Espino
O Nadir, tendre ami | Les pêcheurs de perles
Georges Bizet (1838-1875)
Marco Cammarota
Ô paradis | L’Africaine
Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791-1864)
Karen Barraza
Je suis encore | Manon
Jules Massenet (1842-1912)
Anthony Schneider
O tu, Palermo | I vespri Siciliani
Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)
* performers, program and repertoire are subject to change
Sponsored with a generous gift from Walter and Alice Strine, Esqs.