Opera Laurier presents: We just wanna have fun(damental) rights!

Nov. 8, 2021

Music Director/Conductor/Pianist: Emily Hamper
Stage Director: Alaina Viau
Pianist: Marko Pejanovic

Costume Realization: Inez Khan
Technical Director: Mathew Kensett
Coordinator/Producer: Kimberly Barber

Program and Performers:

“Setting the stage: a pre-show chat”

Setting: In a mall…

Duet from West Side Story, Leonard Bernstein
“A Boy Like That”

Anita: MacKenzie Sechi
Maria: Keiko Larocque (Katrina Elms, understudy)

Excerpt from Act II, sc. i-iii, Le nozze di Figaro, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
“Quanto duolmi, Susanna”

Countess: Grace Ronan
Susanna: Paula Turnbull (Alysse Sailor, understudy, Danielle Aprile, second understudy)
Cherubino: MacKenzie Sechi

Trio from Act II, Béatrice et Benedict, Hector Berlioz
"Je vais d'un coeur aimant"

Hero: Julia Gwyn (Paula Turnbull, understudy)
Ursule: Madison Marino
Beatrice: Grace Ronan

PAUSE FOR SCENE CHANGE

“Setting the stage: a pre-show chat”
Setting: In a bar…

Aria and duet from Act I, sc. iv, The Ballad of Baby Doe, Douglas Moore
“Dearest Mama”

Baby Doe: Olivia Haramis
Augusta Tabor: Madison Marino

Recitative, aria and duet from Act II, sc. i-iii, Cosí fan tutte, W. A. Mozart
“Andate là, che siete due bizarre ragazze”)

Despina: Danielle Aprile (Julia Gwyn, understudy)
Fiordiligi: Keiko Larocque
Dorabella: Madison Marino

Presentation of the Rose from Der Rosenkavalier, Richard Strauss
“Mir ist die Ehre wiederfahren”

Octavian: MacKenzie Sechi
Sophie: Alysse Sailor (Danielle Aprile, understudy)

PAUSE FOR SCENE CHANGE

Spinning Quartet from The Rape of Lucretia, Benjamin Britten
“Their spinning wheel unwinds dreams which desire has spun”

Female Chorus: Olivia Haramis
Lucretia: Claire Dingee
Bianca: Katrina Elms
Lucia: Julia Gwyn

Quartet from Peter Grimes, Benjamin Britten
“From the gutter...Why should we trouble at their ribaldries?”

1st Niece: Katrina Elms
2nd Niece: Grace Ronan
Auntie: Claire Dingee
Ellen Orford: Olivia Haramis