Ottawa Chamberfest | An Evening of Opera and Art Song with Isaiah Bell, Jonelle Sills, and Carson Becke

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

• Jonelle Sills / soprano
• Isaiah Bell / tenor
• Carson Becke / piano

(in-person or online)

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

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