Rosenblatt Recitals – Alek Shrader (tenor), Roger Vignoles (piano)

Opening the 2016/17 Rosenblatt Recitals series is American lyric tenor, Alek Shrader. With “boyish punch” (The Opera Critic) and a “warm lyric voice” (Bachtrack), Shrader is a recipient of San Francisco Opera’s prestigious Adler Fellowship. Having given high profile performances at the Metropolitan Opera and Salzburg Festival, he makes his Rosenblatt Recitals debut with a fascinating programme of song and opera from both sides of the Atlantic.

“Shrader was simply thrilling, his voice precisely vibrant and incisive.” Bachtrack

“Shrader, with his matinee-idol good looks, had the most challenging music to sing and he negotiated the long, florid vocal lines with disarming ease, agility and a sweet, open sound.” Chicago Tribune

PROGRAMME
BELL The Undying Splendour

THOMSON Mostly About Love

NICOLAI Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor
Horch, die Lerche singt im Hain

MOZART Die Entführung aus dem Serail
Ich baue ganz auf deine Stärke

INTERVAL

HANDEL Semele
Where'er you walk

BARBER 3 Songs Op. 45
Now have I fed and eaten up the rose
A green lowland of pianos
O boundless, boundless evening

FOSTER
Beautiful dreamer
I cannot sing tonight
If you've only got a moustache

HANDEL Partenope
Barbaro Fato si

ROSSINI Soirées musicales
La danza