Andrews University Symphony Orchestra
A Night at the Opera
February 23, 2008

Mozart: Overture to Don Giovanni | Massenet: En Fermant les Yeux je Vois from Manon | Puccini: Chi il bel Sogno di Doretta Potè Indovinar from Rondine | Mozart: Non Piu Andrai Farfallone from Nozze di Figaro | Strauss: Aber der Richtige from Arabella | Korngold: Glück, das Mir Verblieb from Die Tote Stadt | Mozart: Come Scoglia from Cosi fan Tutte | Puccini: O Mio Babbino Caro from Gianni Schicchi | Mascagni: Intermezzo from Cavalleria Rusticana | Puccini: Bimba Dagli Occhi Pieni di Malìa from Madama Butterfly

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Overture to Don Giovanni

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Jules Massenet (1842-1912)
En Fermant les Yeux je Vois from Manon

Anonymous. "Manon" and "The Story." Forward to Manon. Wisconsin: G. Schirmer, 1983.

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Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924)
Chi il bel Sogno di Doretta Potè Indovinar from Rondine

Budden, Julian. “Rondine, La.” Grove Music Online ed. L. Macy. 18 February 2008. <http://www.grovemusic.com

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disenchantment.” Grove Music Online ed. L. Macy. 18 February 2008. <http://www.grovemusic.com>

Simon, Henry W., rev. The Victor Book of the Opera. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1968.

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Non Piu Andrai Farfallone from Nozze di Figaro

Fellner, Rudolph. Opera Themes and Plots. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1958.

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Deutsche Grammophon, [1996].

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Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
Aber der Richtige from Arabella

Fellner, Rudolph. Opera Themes and Plots. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1958.

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———. “Arabella.” Grove Music Online ed. L. Macy. 13 February 2008. <http://www.grovemusic.com >

Simon, Henry W., rev. The Victor Book of the Opera. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1968.

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Erich Korngold (1897-1957)
Glück, das Mir Verblieb from Tote Stadt

Anonymous. “Die Tote stadt.” New York Opera Synopsis. Erich Wolfgang Korngold 1897-1957. 18 February

2008. <www.korngold-society.org/synopsis2.html>

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1997.

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———. “Tote Stadt, Die.” Grove Music Online ed. L. Macy. 13 February 2008. <http://www.grovemusic.com>

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Come Scoglia from Cosi fan Tutte

Anonymous. "Characters" and "Argument." Forward to Così fan tutte (The School for Lovers) . London: Novello and

Company, 1951.

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for Lovers’)].” Grove Music Online ed. L. Macy. 13 February 2008. <http://www.grovemusic.com>

Simon, Henry W., rev. The Victor Book of the Opera. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1968.

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Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924)
O Mio Babbino Caro from Gianni Schicchi

Budden, Julian. “Gianni Schicchi.” Grove Music Online ed. L. Macy. 17 February 2008.

<http://www.grovemusic.com>

Fellner, Rudolph. Opera Themes and Plots . New York: Simon and Schuster, 1958.

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Pietro Mascagni (1863-1945)
Intermezzo from Cavalleria Rusticana

Girardi, Michele. “Mascagni, Pietro.” Grove Music Online ed. L. Macy. 17 February 2008.

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<http://www.grovemusic.com>

Simon, Henry W., rev. The Victor Book of the Opera. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1968.

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Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924)
Bimba Dagli Occhi Pieni di Malìa from Madama Butterfly

Fellner, Rudolph. Opera Themes and Plots . New York: Simon and Schuster, 1958.

Budden, Julian. “Madama Butterfly.” Grove Music Online ed. L. Macy. 13 February 2008.

<http://www.grovemusic.com>

———. “Puccini, Giacomo (Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria).” Grove Music Online ed. L. Macy. 17

February 2008. <http://www.grovemusic.com>

Simon, Henry W., rev. The Victor Book of the Opera. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1968.

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Program notes by Linda Mack. Copyright 2008.
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