Avalon Cutts-Jones, soprano
Alexandra Galla, mezzo-soprano
Jon Lovegrove, tenor
Kohl Weisman, bass-baritone
Megan Healy, violin
Pablo Mahave-Veglia, cello
Tina Gorter, piano

Opera is Lit…literature, that is!

Musicologist Camellia Adams curates an event that aims to explore the connection between music and English-language text. From the early Baroque in England to contemporary African American poetry, Opera Grand Rapids artists will showcase pieces of literature superbly set to song.

PROGRAM:

John Dowland Come again!
Henry Purcell Musick for a while
Thomas Arne Blow, blow, thou winter wind
Ludwig van Beethoven, Auld lang syne
Phoebe Knapp, Blessed assurance
Ralph Vaughn Williams, Bright is the ring of words, from Songs of Travel
Roger Quilter, O mistress mine
William Grant Still, The Breath of a Rose
Aaron Copland, Nature, the Gentlest Mother
Andrew Lloyd Weber, Mr. Mistoffelees
Rosephanye Powell, Still I Rise