ENO Harewood Artists

Nadine Benjamin soprano

Katie Coventry mezzo soprano
Elgan Llŷr Thomas tenor
Matthew Durkan baritone

Chris Hopkins piano

If music be the food of love…

Four of the UK’s finest young singers perform an evening of opera, song and musical
theatre … Play on!

Part I
Purcell: If music be the food of love

‘Love is a smoke and is made with the fume of sighs’

Puccini: Tosca: Vissi d’arte (Nadine)

Gounod: Faust: Faites-lui mes âveux (Katie)

‘Love sought is good, but given unsought is better’

Mozart: Così: Soave sia il vento (Nadine,Katie,Matthew)

Donizetti: L’elisir: Come Paride vezzoso (Matthew)

J. Parry: Myfanwy (Elgan)

‘I would not wish any companion in the world but you’

Mozart: Don Giovanni: Là ci darem (Katie,Matthew)

Puccini: Madama Butterfly: Un bel dì (Nadine)

Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro: Voi che sapete (Katie)

‘They are in the very wrath of love, and they will go together’

Puccini: La Bohème: O soave fanciulla (Nadine,Elgan)

Interval
 Part 2

‘Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?’

Gershwin: Porgy and Bess: Summertime (Nadine)

Britten: Tell me the Truth about Love (Katie)

Rogers and Hammerstein: Carousel: If I loved You (Matthew)

‘If music be the food of love, play on’ (all Shakespeare)

Gounod: Roméo et Juliette: Ah! Lêve-toi soleil (Elgan)

Quilter: It was a lover and his lass (Katie)

Verdi: Falstaff: Dal labbro il canto (Elgan)

Bernstein: West Side Story: Tonight (Nadine,Elgan)

‘Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears’

Copland: Why did they shut me out of heaven (from 12 poems of Emily Dickinson) (Nadine)

Andersson/Ulvaeus: Chess: Anthem (Elgan)

Tosti: Ideale (Matthew)

‘Drink sir, is a great provoker’

Mozart: Don Giovanni: Champagne aria (Matthew)

Strauss: Die Fledermaus: Champagne trio (Nadine,Katie,Elgan)

Verdi: La Traviata: Libiamo (Nadine,Katie,Elgan,Matthew)