OPERA ON TAP presents “Sing It, Sister!

Saturday, October 24, 2020. at 5pm

New Orleans Opera Guild Home, 2504 Prytania Street, New Orleans, LA 70130

Nicole Heinen, Vickie R. Thomas and Haley Whitney, sopranos; Rachel Abbate, Mary Cloud and Zara
Zemmels, mezzo-sopranos; and Carol Rausch, piano

“Quando m’en vo’” from La bohème (Giacomo Puccini)

Musetta – Haley Whitney

“Sein wir wieder gut” (Composer’s Aria) from Ariadne auf Naxos (Richard Strauss)
Composer – Zara Zemmels

“Piangerò la sorte mia” from Giulio Cesare (George Frideric Handel)

Cleopatra – Nicole Heinen

“Nobles seigneurs, salut!” from Les Huguenots (Giacomo Meyerbeer)

Urbain – Mary Cloud

“Summertime” from Porgy and Bess (George and Ira Gershwin)

Clara – Vickie R. Thomas

“Everything’s coming up roses” from Gypsy (Jule Styne and Stephen Sondheim)
Rose – Rachel Abbate

Duetto buffo di due gatti - “Cat Duet” (Gioachino Rossini)

Diva I – Nicole Heinen
Diva II – Zara Zemmels

“Mr. Snow” from Carousel (Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein, II)
Carrie Pipperidge – Haley Whitney

“Marry the man today” from Guys & Dolls (Frank Loesser)
Miss Adelaide – Rachel Abbate
Sarah Brown – Mary Cloud

The Witch’s Ride from Hansel and Gretel (Engelbert Humperdinck, English version by Ruth & Thomas
Martin)
Witch – Vickie R. Thomas

“Farewell, o hills” from Joan of Arc (Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, English version by Richard Balthazar)
Joan of Arc – Zara Zemmels
“Long Distance” (A Female Soldier Sends a Message Home) from The Falling and The Rising (Zach
Redler and Jerre Dye)
Female Soldier – Nicole Heinen

“This journey to Christ” from Dead Man Walking (Jake Heggie)

Sister Helen – Mary Cloud

“How do you solve a problem like Maria?” from The Sound of Music (Rodgers and Hammerstein)
Sister Berthe – Mary Cloud
Sister Margaretta – Haley Whitney
Mother Abbess – Vickie R. Thomas

“Sous le dôme épais” from Lakmé (Léo Delibes)

Lakmé – Haley Whitney
Mallika – Zara Zemmels

“We cannot retrace our steps” from The Mother of Us All (Virgil Thomson)
Susan B. Anthony – Rachel Abbate

“Climb Every Mountain” finale reprise from The Sound of Music (Rodgers and Hammerstein)
Mother Abbess – Vickie R. Thomas + Company