Director: Nancy Hermiston
Pianist: Richard Epp
Members of the UBC Opera Ensemble:
Jackson Allen
Neusha Amir-Rahmani
Dae Hyun Justin Cho
Gabriel Chona Rueda
Hannah Ernst
Katie Fraser
Connor Hoppenbrouwers
Magdalena How
Mariana Iguavita
Matthew Kim
Leila Kirves
Rafael Laurindo
Ian McCloy
Matthew McLellan
Emma Petersen Melland
Taryn Plater
Liam Robertson
Alyssa Samson
Hyun Seung Tom Son
Catherine Thornsley
Yuhui Wang
Philip Wing
Wanshuai Yu
Also Featuring Conductor David Agler, Pianist Tina Chang, and Violinist Daniel Tsui

Performed at the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts

We acknowledge that the University of British Columbia is situated on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the Musqueam people.

La Vendetta
from Le nozze di Figaro by W.A. Mozart

Dove sono
from Le nozze di Figaro by W.A. Mozart

Riconosci in quest’amplesso
from Le nozze di Figaro by W.A. Mozart

Che mi frena in tal momento
from Lucia di Lammermoor by G. Donizetti

Riccardo, Riccardo
from I Puritani by V. Bellini

Qual voluttà trascorrere
from I Lombardi by G. Verdi

Vissi d’arte
from Tosca by G. Puccini

Ideale
by F.P. Tosti

Madrigal
by M. Sandoval

Excerpt from “Chapter Four: Some Correspondence”
from Mansfield Park by J. Dove

The UBC Opera Ensemble:
The University of British Columbia Opera Ensemble was founded by Canadian lyric coloratura, Nancy Hermiston, in 1995. Beginning with a core of seven performers, Ms. Hermiston has built the program to a 90-member company. The ensemble performs three main productions at UBC every season, several Opera Tea Concerts, and a series of Singer Behind the Song events featuring international stars who work with ensemble students. As well, the Ensemble has several engagements with local community partners such as the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Vancouver Opera, and Bard on the Beach. In addition, the Ensemble travels each year to the Czech Republic to gain valuable European performance experience. Frequently they appear in concert with the Plzen Opera Orchestra, and they are regular guests at the Nurnberg Opera House for their Musikalischen Damen Teas (founded by Prof Hermiston in 1985). They have also given several concerts in Beijing, Shanghai, and Chengdu, China.In addition, the Ensemble has toured throughout B.C., Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Ontario.

The Ensemble’s mission is to provide an outstanding performance and academic education for young, gifted opera singers, preparing them for international careers. Past main-stage productions have included Le Nozze di Figaro, Die Zauberflöte, Die Gärtnerin aus Liebe, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Suor Angelica, La Bohème, Dido and Aeneas, The Bartered Bride, Manon, Eugene Onegin, Florence: the Lady with the Lamp, Dreamhealer, Falstaff, Don Giovanni, Cendrillon, Albert Herring, the Western Canadian Premiere of Harry Somer’s Louis Riel, The Crucible, Die Lustige Witwe (The Merry Widow), Rusalka, Così fan tutte, Dialogues des Carmélites, Carmen, The Tales of Hoffmann, The Florentine Straw Hat, La Traviata, A Night in Venice (Eine Nacht in Venedig), A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Consul, Orfeo ed Euridice, La Cenerentola, Il Tabarro and Gianni Schicchi, Silent Night, Pasażerka, Il Viaggio a Reims, and Mansfield Park.