a Benefit concert for the CHILD
CANCER FUND September
10, 2005
First Coast Opera's
Barbara Norris
recently performed as a guest artist with Geronimo Classics at
Jacoby Hall
in Jacksonville, Florida, home of the Jacksonville Symphony. Bass-baritone Jim
Goodell also joined tenor Roger Geronimo.
Student artists who participated were Cassie
Conrad, Alicia Day,
Jule Nelson-Duac, Erin Stillson, Morgane VanWaeyenberghe.
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1 Jacoby Hall before Music for
Hope concert
2 Company, from above the stage
3 Roger Geronimo as the Phantom sings to Christine, Roger's wife Debbie
4 Accompanist Martha McKie, assisted by husband Don Wakelin
5 Barbara Norris and Jim Goodell sing Tonight from Westside Story
6 Student Jule Nelson-Duac sings "Getting to know you" from The
King and to the children
7 Student performers, left to right: Jule Nelson-Duac, Morgane Van
Waeyenbergh, Cassandra Conrad, Alicia Day
8 Jacoby hall before the performance
9 Company sings chorus as student performers Erin Stillson and Alicia Day lead
in "Climb every mountain" from The Sound of Music
10 Student Alicia Day sings "Che faro senza Euridice" from Gluck's Orfeo
ed Euridice 11 Jule Nelson-Duac
12 Morgane Van Waeyenberghe
13 Alicia Day
14 Erin Stillson
15 Cassie Conrad
16 Erin Stillson
17 Barbara Norris
18 Barbara Norris sings "Les oiseaux dans la charmille", the Doll Song
from The Tales of Hoffmann 19 The Phantom of the Opera, Roger Geronimo, sings to a collapsed Christine
We celebrated our FIFTH
Anniversary
with a reprise of our first ever performance
featuring performers old and new!
Karen Adair, soprano Norton Christeson, tenor
Jim Goodell, bass-baritone
Kris Kelly, mezzo-soprano
Dan Kerr, tenor
Barbara Norris, soprano
Janet Rabe-Meyer, mezzo-soprano Carolyn Snyder-Menke, soprano David Stork, baritone
Sean Stork, baritone
Pamela Ferry Tsitos, soprano
Ralph Wyman, Rosemary Burn-Kerr
With Martha
McKie,
Accompanist
THE PROGRAM
Barcarolle
FROM THE TALES OF HOFFMANN BY
JACQUES OFFENBACH
Karen Adair, soprano and Janet Rabe-Meyer, mezzo-soprano
Bob’s
Aria
FROM THE OLD MAID AND THE THIEF BY
GIAN CARLO MENOTTI
David Stork, baritone
O
mio babbino caro FROM
GIANNI SCHICCHI BY GIACOMO PUCCINI
Pamela Ferry Tsitos, soprano
Non
pìu andrai
FROM THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO BY WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
Jim Goodell, bass-baritone
Ain’t
It a Pretty Night
FROM SUSANNAH BY
CARLISLE
FLOYD
Karen Adair
Quintet
FROM THE MAGIC FLUTE BY WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
Dan Kerr, tenor, Janet Rabe-Meyer,
Karen Adair, David Stork, Barbara Norris
Intermission
Papageno
Duet
FROM THE MAGIC FLUTE BY MOZART
David Stork and Carolyn Snyder-Menke, soprano
Sous
le dôme épais
FROM LAKMÉ
BY
LEO DELIBES
Barbara Norris, soprano and Janet Rabe-Meyer, mezzo-soprano
Au
fond du temple saint
FROM THE
PEARL FISHERS BY
GEORGES BIZET
David Stork and Norton Christeson, tenor
Che
farò senza Euridice
FROM ORFEO
BY CHRISTOPH WILLIBALD GLUCK
Janet Rabe-Meyer
Bess,
You is My Woman
FROM PORGY
AND BESS BY
GEORGE GERSHWIN
David Stork and Barbara Norris
It
Ain’t Necessarily So
FROM PORGY
AND BESS BY
GEORGE GERSHWIN
Sean Stork, baritone
Un
dì, se ben rammentomi…
Bella figlia dell’amore
FROM RIGOLETTO
BY
GIUSEPPE VERDI
Norton Christeson, Janet Rabe-Meyer, David Stork, & Karen
Adair
Make
Our Garden Grow
FROM CANDIDE
BY
LEONARD BERNSTEIN
Dan Kerr and Carolyn Snyder-Menke
Karen Adair, Barbara Norris, Janet Rabe-Meyer,
Norton Christeson, Jim Goodell, David Stork, Sean Stork
Conducted by Anthony Fast
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