The Queens Speak: A Recital of Opera and Song

Julianne Davis, soprano, and Susan Olenwine, piano, together with Gabrielle Razafinatovo, mezzo soprano, present a program of works featuring queens, historical and imagined. Speaker Andrea Messina Weidemann provides context and translation between pieces.
"Da tempeste il legno infranto" from Giulio Cesare in Egitto by Handel
"Allenta il piè, Regina ... O nube che lieve" from Maria Stuarda by Donizetti
"Try Me, Good King" song cycle by Libby Larson
"Monica's Waltz" from The Medium by Menotti
"When I am Laid in Earth" from Dido and Aeneas by Purcell
"Io t'abbraccio" from Rosalina by Handel
"C'est Mon Ami" by Marie Antoinette
"Chanson de Marie Antoinette" by Myron Jacobson
"Der Hölle Rache" from The Magic Flute by Mozart
"Before I Gaze at You Again" from Camelot by Lerner and Loewe