NOI Philharmonic: Festival Opening Performance – A Night At The Opera

Peter Boyer — Fanfare for Tomorrow
Dmitry Kabalevsky — Overture to Colas Breugnon
Georges Bizet — Carmen (selections)
Léo Delibes — "Duo des fleurs" ("Flower Duet") from Lakmé
Camille Saint-Saëns — "Danse Bacchanale" from Samson et Dalila, Op. 47
Giuseppe Verdi — Overture to La Forza del Destino
Giuseppe Verdi — "La donna è mobile" ("Woman is fickle") from Rigoletto
Giuseppe Verdi — "Caro nome che il mio cor" from Rigoletto
Giuseppe Verdi — "Gloria all'Egitto" ("Triumphant March") from Aida
Eubie Blake — "I'm Just Wild About Harry" from Shuffle Along
Leonard Bernstein — West Side Story Suite (No. 1)
Mitch Leigh — "The Impossible Dream" from Man of La Mancha
Samuel A. Ward — America the Beautiful (arr. Tim Berens)

Friend of NOI+F and audience favorite John Morris Russell opens The Clarice's 36th National Orchestral Institute + Festival. Featuring dazzling operatic selections performed by the NOI Philharmonic and members of Wolf Trap Opera, the concert begins with staples from Bizet's Carmen – the famous overture, "Seguidilla and Habanera." Enjoy the mesmerizing "Flower Duet" from Lakmé and also works by Verdi like the triumphal march from Aida and "La donna e mobile" from Rigoletto.

About National Orchestral Institute + Festival (NOI+F)

https://theclarice.umd.edu/noi

About Wolf Trap

https://www.wolftrap.org/