Leo Delibes – Past Concerts

Ladies Musical Club presents selections from operas adapted from literature.

Offenbach – Barcarolle from Tales of Hoffman
Mozart – Selections from Le Nozze di Figaro
Humperdinck – Prayer from Hansel & Gretel
Rossini – Duetto buffo di due gatti ("Cat Duet")
Delibes – Flower Duet from Lakme
Chopin – Sonata No. 2 in B-flat minor, Op. 35

Purcell – “Fear no danger” (Dido and Aeneas)
Cavalli – “Piante Ombrose” (La Calisto)
Verdi – “Non so le tetre imagini” (Il Corsaro)
Puccini – “O mio babbino caro” (Gianni Schicchi)
W. Schuman – “Kiss me not goodbye” (The Mighty Casey)
Blitzstein – “What will it be for me?” (Regina)
Mechem – “No more pale moon” (Tartuffe)
Harbison – “Where is that warm old world?” (The Great Gatsby)
Donizetti – “Prendi” (L’elisir d’amore)
Donizetti – “Saria possibile?” (L’elisir d’amore)
Gershwin – “Summertime” (Porgy and Bess)
Delibes – Flower duet (Lakmé)

Be swept away by the elegance of a Parisian evening by the Seine at a post-concert black-tie cocktail reception and dinner at the luxurious Fairmont Olympic Hotel.
Ibert – Suite symphonique, "Paris"
Satie /orch. Debussy – Gymnopédies Nos. 1 and 3
Saint-Saëns – Havanaise for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 83
Massenet – Méditation from Thaïs for Violin and Orchestra
Delibes – Selections from Suite No. 2 from Coppélia
Sarasate – Carmen Fantasy for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 25
Offenbach – Selections from Orphée aux enfers ("Orpheus in the Underworld")