“I don't recall the last time I witnessed an opera audience connect with a comedy so immediately and with such sustained, wide-eyed enthusiasm as MOT's opening night crowd did Friday. Matter of fact, both the onstage doings and the audience's bubbly response were more suggestive of Broadway than opera...much of it in brilliant duets for Nemorino and Adina - the vivacious and vocally agile soprano Ailyn Perez.”
Lawrence B Johnson, The Detroit News

RECITAL TWO

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» 15 Oct 2009 » 19:30 » St John's, Smith Square » £20, £15, £10 (Concessions £10)

AILYN PÉREZSoprano

Iain BurnsidePianist
Songs and arias by composers including Mozart, Puccini, Turina, Vives, Granados and Verdi.

One of the most promising and exciting young artists today, Ailyn Pérez has already won awards for both her operatic singing and recital performances. She has toured with Andrea Bocelli and most recently she has appeared as Marzelline in Fidelio with Opera Company of Philadelphia and at the Salzburg Festival singing Juliette in Roméo et Juliette.

Programme

VERDI Falstaff Sul fil d’un soffio etesio
MOZART Don Giovanni In quali eccessi, o Numi....Mi tradì quell’alma ingrata
Zaïde Ruhe sanfte
VERDI La traviata E’ strano…Ah, fors’è lui…Sempre libera
VIVES El niño judio De España vengo
Doña Francisquita Canción del Ruiseñor
VALVERDE Clavelitos
TURINA Tu pupila es azul
GRANADOS Elegia Eterna
OBRADORS El Molondrón
PUCCINI Turandot
- Signore, ascolta
- Tu che di gel sei cinta
CHARPENTIER Louise Depuis le jour
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