Live In-Person & Virtual Livestreamed Event
Program Six L’Esprit de Paris
August 12, 2021
Live In-Person & Virtual Livestreamed Event
August 12, 2021
As the first concert of Weekend Two discovers, the Boulanger sisters came from a distinguished musical family. A winner of the Prix de Rome himself, their father, Ernest Boulanger, was a composer of comic opera whose own father taught at the Conservatoire and whose mother, Marie-Julie Boulanger (née Halligner), was a mezzo-soprano who created roles in the Opéra-Comique’s world premieres of Daniel Auber’s L’ambassadrice, Gaetano Donizetti’s La fille du régiment and many more.
Presented as a performance with commentary, Program Six explores French music’s lighter side through vocal excerpts from operettas, comic operas and popular songs and chansons.
7 pm Performance
Vocalists
Rebecca Ringle Kamarei, mezzo-soprano
Tyler Duncan, baritone
Instrumentalists
Erika Switzer, piano
Bard Festival Chamber Players
Arias, songs, and piano works by François-Adrien Boieldieu (1775–1834), Gaetano Donizetti (1797–1848), Ernest Boulanger (1815–1900), Raoul Pugno (1852–1914), Claude Debussy (1862–1918), Erik Satie (1866–1925), Maurice Ravel (1875–1937), Francis Poulenc (1899–1963), Marguerite Monnot (1903–61) and Mireille Hartuch (1906–96)