Program: Snaky Love
Story Recital
-- Song and Aria Recital. Three in One: Bass, Baritone and Tenor,
all sung by
Will Lin
Act I: (Bass, in English) Dreaming of a Beautiful
Girl
“I am dreaming of a nice beautiful girl with every Christmas
card I write, May your day be merry and bright.”
Act II: Tenor: (in Italian) The
Dream is Over, The Girl Disappears
“ La donna è
mobile" (from
Giuseppe Verdi's opera Rigoletto)
"Qual piuma al vento, Muta d'accento — e di pensiero”
(“Woman
is flighty, like a feather in the wind She changes her voice – and her mind”)
Act III:
Wishing The Girl Comes Back
i) Please Come Back
(Tenor, in Italian)“Torna a Surriento” ("Come back to Surriento",
Neapolitan song )
ii) Wonder Where She Is (Baritone, in Mandarin)
在银色的月光下 （“Under the Silver Moonlight", Chinese song)
”... 飞吧，飞吧， 我的马， 朝着她去的方向 "（ "... flight, flight, my horse,
toward the way she went" )
Act IV: How to Find Her
i)Baritone:(in Mandarin)
Go to the Prairie
chì lè gē 敕 勒 歌
A Shepherd 's Song( Chinese song )
tiān cāng cāng 天 苍 苍 Beneath the boundless sky,
yě máng máng 野 茫 茫 The boundless grassland is laid.
fēng chuī yún dī jiàn gu niáng 风 吹 云 低 见 姑 娘 When the wind blows
and the clouds
bend low, the girl will appear
ii)Tenor: Find a Big Tree(in Italian)
"Ombra mai fu" aria from the 1738
opera
Serse
by George Frideric Handel.
iii)
And Show the Determination
在那遥远的地方 （Tenor, in Mandarin, Chinese song)
" ... 我愿抛弃了财产，和她去放羊 ... "
( "... I am willing to give up all my fortune in order to be with
her ...")
Act V: Finding and Waiting for the Girl
i) First See the Girl “Donna non vidi mai”
(from Puccini opera ‘Manon Lescaut’,
in Italian)
ii) Prepare to Suffer "Per
la gloria d'adorarvi" (by Giovanni Battista Bononcini, in Italian)
iii) Know That The Girl also in Love
"Una furtiva lagrima" (L'elisir
d'amore by
Gaetano Donizetti, in Italian)
iv) Waiting for the Girl
1) Waiting in the Evening. Franz Schubert "Ständchen" (in German)
2) Waiting in the Early Morning. “Nessun Dorma” (from Puccini Opera
‘Turandot’, in Italian)
"Dilegua, o
notte! Tramontate, stelle! Tramontate, stelle! All'alba vincerò! Vincerò!
Vincerò!"
("Vanish, o night! Set, stars! Set, stars! At dawn, I will win! I will
win! I will win! ")
Act VI:
Embrace the Girl
“O sole mio” (Tenor, in Italian, Italian art song)
Act VII: Have a baby
Wiegenlied (Brahms' Lullaby, tenor, in German and Mandarin)
"Guten Abend, gute Nacht,..."