OPERA SANTA BARBARA

An afternoon at the Paris Opera!

Featuring Opera Santa Barbara Studio Artists

Chelsea Melamed, Mezzo-soprano
Jonathan Walker-Van Khuren, tenor
Byron Mayes, baritone

guest artist, Naomi Merer, soprano

and

OSB Artistic Director, Kostis Protopapas, pianist

PROGRAM

“Belle Nuit”, from The Tales of Hoffmann, by Jacques Offenbach
Naomi and Chelsea

Selections from the operas of Jules Massenet

MANON

“En ferment les yeux”
Jonathan 

“Adieu, notre petite table”
Naomi

“Ne bronchez pas”
Byron

WERTHER

“Va, laisse couler mes larmes”
Chelsea

“Pourqois me reveiller”
Jonathan

HÉRODIADE

“Vision fugitive”
Byron

DON QUICHOTTE

“Lorsque le temps”
Chelsea

from “Don Quichotte a Dulcinée”, by Maurice Ravel

Chanson Romanesque

Chanson a bore

Byron

Popular and Cabaret songs

“La Vie en Rose”, by Édith Piaf
Chelsea

“Je te veux”, by Eric Satie
Jonathan

“Youkali”, by Kurt Weil
Chelsea

“The last time I saw Paris”, by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II
Byron

*Program and artists subject to change