Sunday, January 27 at the Old Swimming Pool of the Lightner Museum

Ron DeFesi, basso-cantante
In Recital
Scott Watkins, accompanist
with Barbara Norris, soprano  

 “Sibilar gli angui d’Aletto” from Rinaldo
George Frederick Handel

Four songs of Vincenzo Bellini
“Malinconia, ninfa gentile”
“Vanne, o rosa fortunate”
“Vaga luna, che inargenti”
“Torna, vezzosa Fillide”

Four lieder of Franz Schubert
“Erlkönig”
“Ständchen”
“Die Forelle”
“An die Musik”

“La calunnia” from Il Barbiere di Siviglia
Giacchino Rossini

INTERMISSION

“Caro…Più amabile beltà” from Giulio Cesare
George Frederick Handel
with Barbara Norris, soprano

Two selections from operas by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
“Se vuol ballare” from Le Nozze di Figaro
“La cì darem la mano” from Don Giovanni
with Barbara Norris

“Ella giammai m’amo” from Don Carlo
Giuseppe Verdi

“Je me nomme Coppélius” from Les Contes d’Hoffmann
Jacques Offenbach

“This place is mine” from Phantom
Maury Yeston

“Bess, you is my woman” from Porgy and Bess
George and Ira Gershwin
with Barbara Norris

Three Italian Songs
“Mattinata”
Ruggiero Leoncavallo
“Core ‘ngrato”
Salvatore Cardillo
“Torna a Surriento”
Ernesto de Curtis

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