WNO Operatic Concert
The men of the chorus and orchestra of the WNO perform extracts from Verdi’s La Traviata, Mozart’s The Magic Flute, Wagner’s The Flying Dutchman, traditional Welsh music
for Male Voices, orchestral favourites and much more. Together they will explore strong male characters from the world of opera – Soldiers, Sailors, Prisoners and Priests!
With soloists:
Robyn Lyn Evans (Tenor) & Gareth Brynmor John (Baritone)
Full repertoire:
Rossini La Cenerentola ‘Overture’
Rossini La Cenerentola No 4 ‘Cavatina’
Rossini La Cenerentola Act 1 Finale ‘Zitto’
Verdi La traviata Act II, No 4 ‘lunge da lei… De Miei Bollenti Spririti’
Gounod Faust ‘Soldier’s Chorus’
Bizet The Pearl Fishers Duet ‘Au fond du temple saint’
Prokofiev Romeo and Juliet ‘Dance of the Knights‘
Traditional (arranged Arwel Hughes) Gwahoddiad
Interval
Verdi Les vêpres siciliennes ‘Overture’
Mozart The Magic Flute ‘Priest’s Chorus’
Donizetti The Elixir of Love ‘Una fur’
Arwel Hughes Tydi a Roddaist
Verdi Don Carlo ‘E Lui! Desso! … Dio, che nell’alma’
Beethoven Fidelio ‘Prisoners’ Chorus’
Wagner Lohengrin ‘Prelude to Act III’
Wagner The Flying Dutchman ‘Sailors’ Chorus’
Trenet La Mer