COLLABORATOR

Margaret Halbig, piano

PROGRAM

Stephen Schwartz (b. 1948)
Corner of the Sky
     from Pippin
Seth Hanson, tenor 

Francesco Paolo Tosti (1846-1916)
Ideale
Aaron Hong, baritone***

Matt Boehler**
Beginning my Studies
Nicholas Davis, tenor 

Francis Poulenc (1899-1963)
Prologue
     from Les Mamelles de Tiresias  
Kurt Winterhalter, baritone

Richard Wagner (1813-1883)
Winterstürme wichen dem Wonnemond
     from Die Walküre
Adam Lowe, tenor***

Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848)
Bella siccome un angelo
     from Don Pasquale 
Julio Martinez, baritone

Gian Carlo Menotti  (1911-2007)
Bob’s Aria
    from The Old Maid and the Thief
Marcus Lonardo, baritone

Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
The Vagabond
     from The Songs Of Travel
Marcus Contreras, baritone

Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)
Demanten på marssnön
     from Six Songs, Op. 36
Adam Lowe, tenor ***

Clara Schumann (1819-1896)
Ich stand in dunkeln Träumen
     from Six Lieder, Op. 13 No. 1
Marcus Lonardo, baritone

Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Gesanges Erwachen
Nicholas Davis, tenor

David Conte*
Entrance
     from Everyone Sang: Four Songs for Bass and Piano
Kurt Winterhalter, baritone

* denotes SFCM Faculty Member
**denotes SFCM Alum
***denotes a prerecorded performance 

ABOUT SFCM’S VOICE DEPARTMENT

Find your voice—and your community. A tight-knit group, voice students work closely with all-star faculty who have performed at the Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Paris Opera, Milan’s La Scala, and many others. As a student at SFCM, you'll have the opportunity to regularly attend dress rehearsals at the San Francisco Opera and take advantage of performance opportunities around the Bay Area.

ABOUT SFCM FACULTY, MATTHEW WORTH

This season baritone Matthew Worth performs the title role in Il barbiere di Siviglia with Boston Lyric Opera, returns to his critically lauded portrayal of the Narrator in Richard Danielpour’s The Passion of Yeshua at Royce Hall in Los Angeles and again with the Buffalo Philharmonic and continues his doctoral studies at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. Mr.Worth’s performances in 2017/18 included the title role in David T. Little & Royce Vavrek’s JFK with Opéra de Montréal, the Narrator in the world premiere of Richard Danielpour’s i with the Oregon Bach Festival, Bernstein’s Arias & Barcarolles with the New York Festival of Song at Lyric Opera of Kansas City, Laura Kaminsky & Mark Campbell’s As One with Cincinnati Opera, and recitals at the University of Cincinnati and Austin Peay University.
Highlights of recent seasons include the title role in the world premiere of JFK with Fort Worth Opera, the world premiere of The Manchurian Candidate with Minnesota Opera, and Moby Dick at Washington National Opera. He has performed principal roles at Santa Fe Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Opéra de Montréal, Tanglewood Festival, Cincinnati Opera, and Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, under luminary conductors James Levine, Lorin Maazel, and Sir Andrew Davis.