For Tonight

Artists:

• Sérine de Labaume, soprano
• Myroslav Drahan, piano
• Oksana Rapita, piano

Programme:

Three Arias – Defiance, Prayer, Faith

• Alfredo Catalani (1854-1893). “Ebben! Ne andrò lontana”: Wally’s aria from “La Wally” (20 January 1892, La scala, Milan)
• Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924). “Vissi d’arte”: Tosca’s aria from “Tosca”
  (14 January 1900, Teatro Costanzi, Rome)
• Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924). “Un bel di”: Cio-Cio-San’s aria from “Madama Butterfly” (17 February 1904, La Scala, Milan)

Two More Arias – in love, ardent and unwavering

• Giuseppe Verdi (1813 – 1901). “Gualtier Malde… Caro nome”: Gilda’s aria from “Rigoletto” (11 March 1851, Teatro La Fenice, Venice)
• Gaetano Donizetti (1797 – 1848). “Regnava nel silenzio… Quando rapito in estasi”: Lucia’s aria from “Lucia di Lammermoor” (26 September 1835, Teatro di San Carlo, Naples)

A French Bolero & an English Waltz – all in lightness

• Hector Berlioz (1803 – 1869). “Zaide”: Lyrics by Roger de Beauvoir (1845)
• Edward German (1862-1936). “For Tonight”: Sophia’s aria from comic opera “Tom Jones” (17 April 1907, Apollo Theatre, London)

Two Operetta Arias – longing for home

• Johann Strauss ll (1825-1899). “Klänge der Heimat”: Rosalinde’s Csárdás from operetta “Die Fldermaus” (5 April 1874, Theater an der Wien, Vienna)
• Chalres Lecocq (1832 – 1918). “Ô Paris, gai séjour”: Gabrielle’s waltz from Les Cents Vierges (16 March 1872, Théâtre des Fantaisies-Parisiennes, Brussels)