Singapore International Festival Of Music 2016, Victoria's Greatest Hits, Featuring Victoria Song
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Journey with Singapore soprano Victoria Songwei Li, through the various stages of love based on European legends from innocent young love in Verdi's Caro Nome to a young girl's discovery of the excitement of love, to the proclamation of the joys of youth and love in Gounod's Je veux vivre.
Li is a recent graduate of the Royal Academy of Music in London and recipient of Hamish Dyer Young Musicians' Scholarship.
Featuring:
- Victoria Songwei Li, vocal recital
- Thomas Ang, piano
Programmes:
- Caro nome - Verdi (Rigoletto)
- Gretchen am Spinnrade - Schubert
- Be kind and Courteous - Britten (A Midsummer Night's Dream)
- Love went a-riding - F. Bridge
- Chiedi all'aura lusinghiera - Donizetti (L'elisir d'amore)
- Prendi per me se libero... - Donizetti (L'elisir d'amore)
- Ange adorable - Gounod (Romeo et Juliette)
- No word from Tom - Stravinsky (The Rake's Progress)
- Zdes' horosho - Rachmaninov
- Ne poy, krasavitsa, primne - Rachmaninov
- Je veux vivre - Gounod (Romeo et Juliette)