Masterworks III - Love, Songs, and Broadway

Antoine T. Clark, conductor

Laura Portune, soprano

Program:

Felix Mendelssohn: Die Schöne Melusine, op. 32 (“The Fair Melusina”)

Joaquin Rodrigo: Cuatro Madrigales Amatorios

Claude Debussy: Clair de Lune

Giacomo Puccini: Quando me'n vo soletta (“Musetta's Waltz”) from La Boheme

Giacomo Puccini: O Mio Babbino Caro from Gianni Schicchi

Pietro Mascagni: Intermezzo from Cavalleria rusticana

Arthur Sullivan: Sorry Her Lot from H.M.S. Pinafore

George Gershwin: Summertime from Porgy and Bess

William Bolcom: Amor from Cabaret Songs

Andrew Lloyd Webber: The Music of the Night from Phantom of the Opera

Nino Rota: A Renaissance Time Piece from Romeo and Juliet

Leonard Bernstein: Somewhere from West Side Story

Richard Rodgers: Edelweiss from Sound of Music

Harold Arlen: Over the Rainbow

Frederick Loewe: My Fair Lady, Highlights

Love serves as the central theme of this delightful program, expressed through popular light classical

selections, art songs, opera arias, film music, and Broadway show tunes. Audiences will enjoy

instrumental and vocal classics by Claude Debussy, Giacomo Puccini, George Gershwin, Richard

Rodgers, Leonard Bernstein, and others.

Laura Portune, acclaimed soprano and an Assistant Professor of Practice at The Ohio State

University, is featured as guest soloist.