The Three Altos

Emily Bullock, Suzanne DuPlantis and Margaret Mezzacappa, altos all
After the Three Tenors, the Twelve Tenors, the Irish Tenors and the Three Phantoms (can the Three RumTum Tuggers be far behind?), at last the spotlight shines on those oft-neglected muses, the mezzos, when we present an evening with The Three Altos. Too often they’re been the tenor’s maid, the soprano’s sister, the lover’s best friend who dies in act one. Tonight Luciano, José and Placido move over at last so that these low-voiced high-class ladies can show there’s nothing “mezzo” about mezzos, that altos are stars in their own right.
Program:
Offenbach, Barcarole, from The Tales of Hoffman
Rossini, Di Tanti Palpiti, from Tancredi
Handel, Dopo Notte, from Ariodante
Elgar, Sea Pictures (excerpts)
Verdi, Stride la Vampa, from Il Trovatore
Bizet, Habanera, from Carmen
Offenbach, J'aime les militaries, from La Grande Duchesse de Gerolstein
Sullivan, Three Little Maids from School, from The Mikado
Rossini, The Cat ‘Trio’
Brahms, Zigeunerlieder (excerpts)
Dvořák, Moravian Duets (excerpts), and Gypsy Songs (excerpts)
Arlen, Stormy Weather
Porter, I hate men, from Kiss Me, Kate
Rodgers, Bali Ha’i, from South Pacific
Gershwin, Someone to watch over me, from Oh, Kay!
Schönberg, I dreamed a dream, from Les Miserables
Rodgers, Climb Every Mountain, from The Sound of Music