About The Program

In 1990, three great operatic tenors gave a legendary concert of the best arias in the canon. More than 800 million viewers tuned in, and the recording of this concert became the best-selling classical album of all time! Dayton Opera pays homage to this historic event as three rising stars on the operatic stage perform much of the same repertoire of the original concert, led by Dayton’s own, Howard Watkins, as music director and pianist. Featuring opera’s greatest arias to Broadway, Neapolitan, and Zarzuela songs, this concert will have you yelling “Encore!”

The Program

Cilea É la solita storia del pastore from L’arlesiana
Puccini Recondita armonia from Tosca
Lehár Dein ist mein ganzes Herz from Das Land des Lächelns
Meyerbeer Ô paradis from L’Africaine
Tosti Ideale
Cardillo Core ‘ngrato
De Curtis Torna a Surriento
Sorozábal No puede ser from La tabernera del puerto
Leoncavallo Vesti la giubba from Pagliacci
Puccini E lucevan le stelle from Tosca
Verdi La donna è mobile from Rigoletto
Rossini La danza
Lara Granada Agustín
Bizet La fleur que tu m’avais jetée from Carmen
Mascagni Addio alla madre from Cavalleria rusticana
Donizetti Una furtiva lagrima from L’elisir d’amore
Puccini Nessun dorma from Turandot
Medley:
     Bernstein Maria & Tonight from West Side Story
     D’Annibale ‘O passe d’ ‘o sole
     Mendoza y Cortés Cielito Lindo
Medley:
     Romberg Serenade from The Student Prince
     Weatherly Danny Boy
     Cahn and Brodszky Be My Love
Medley:
     Leoncavallo Mattinata
     Sieczyński Wien, du Stadt meiner Träume
     di Capua ‘O sole mio