Candlelight'LOVE EXTRAVAGANZA'Opera Recitals

Candlelight Recital Voce Sola with Piano Accompaniement Baroque & Romantic Love Arias and Songs Arias, Airs, Songs from Italian 16th century Baroque to Romantic Opera, Sacred Arias and beyond

Richard Lea, piano accompanist Nicole Bartos soprano

Evening Programme with music selections from: Durante, Torelli, Scarlatti, Caccini, Gluck. Mahler, Gounod, Puccini, Vivaldi, Pergolesi, Rossini, Handel, Saint Saens, Dvorak, Bach Gounod / Mascagni, Cesti, Verdi, Gounod, (Strozzi tbc). Detailed programme remains to be confirmed during the week of the performance.

Main suggested composers and opera titles: Handel (Rhodelinda; Alcina; Giulius Cesare), Vivaldi (Il Giustino), Saint Saens (Samson et Dalila); Pergolesi (Stabat Mater), Rossini (Le Nozze di Figaro), Dvorak (Ruszalka), Verdi (Il Trovatore)