Celebrating opera and art song, this special concert features multifaceted tenor Isaiah Bell, and marks dynamic, young soprano Jonelle Sills’s Chamberfest debut.

• Jonelle Sillssoprano
• Isaiah Belltenor
• Carson Beckepiano

Robert Schumann (1810-1856) | In der Nacht, Op. 74, no. 4 (text: Emanuel Geibel)

Traditional | The Ploughboy, from Folksong Arrangements Vol. III (arr. Benjamin Britten)

Carlisle Floyd (b. 1926) | Ain’t it a Pretty Night (from Susannah) (libretto: C. Floyd)

André Previn (1929-2019) | Whose House is This (from “Honey and Rue”) (text: Toni Morrison)

Eden Ahbez (1908-1995) | Nature Boy

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) | Un’aura amorosa (from Così fan tutte) (libretto: Lorenzo Da Ponte)

Traditional | O Waly, Waly

Richard Strauss (1864-1949) | Ramble on the Last Love Duet from Der Rosenkavalier (arr. Percy Grainger)

Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) | Parigi, o cara (from La Traviata) (libretto: Francesco Maria Piave)

Isaiah Bell (b. 1985) | This World

André Previn (1929-2019) | Do You Know Him? (from “Honey and Rue”) (text: Toni Morrison)

Ernest Schweikert | This is Heaven to Me (text: Frank Reardon)

James Rolfe (b. 1967) | Halcyon Days* (text: Walt Whitman)

André Previn (1929-2019) | Take My Mother Home (from “Honey and Rue”) (text: Toni Morrison)

*World Premiere

An Evening of Opera and Art Song will be presented by livestream and is part of your Festival Livestream Pass. Single tickets for livestream and limited in-person opportunities (as allowed by local COVID-19 regulations) will be available in July.