Fisher Center, Bard Music Festival
BMF Program Eight
You Can't Be Serious! Viennese Popular Music and Operetta
August 21, 2010
Fisher Center, Bard Music Festival
August 21, 2010
* Please note that this program will be also be performed at the Spiegeltent on Thursday, August 19 at 8:30 pm.
Live performances of music by Berg, Offenbach, Lehar, Strauss, and more — with commentary by Derek B. Scott. Tickets: $10.
Saturday, August 21
Olin Hall
10 am Performance
Commentary by Derek B. Scott; with James Bassi, piano; Hai-Ting Chinn, mezzo-soprano; William Ferguson, tenor; Thomas Meglioranza, baritone; Camille Zamora, soprano
Tickets: $30
Alban Berg (1885–1935)
Waltzes
Johann Strauss II (1825–99)
Excerpts from Der Zigeunerbaron (1885) and Die Fledermaus (1874)
Jacques Offenbach (1819–80)
Excerpts from Les Brigandes (1869), La Grand Duchesse de Gerolstein (1867), La belle Helene (1864), and La vie parisienne (1866)
Arthur Sullivan (1842–1900) (Gilbert)
Excerpts from H.M.S. Pinafore (1878), The Yeoman of the Gurard (1888), The Gondoliers (1889), and Ruddigore (1887)
Franz von Suppé (1818–95)
From Boccaccio, or The Prince of Palermo (1878)
Franz Lehár (1870–1948)
From Der Graf von Luxembourg (1909)
Emmerich Kálmán (1882–1953)
From Gräfin Mariza (1924)
Paul Abraham (1892–1960)
From Viktoria und ihr Husar (1930)
Ralph Benatzky (1884–1957) / Robert Stolz (1880–1975)
From White Horse Inn (1930)
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