The University of Arkansas J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences
Department of Music presents
An Afternoon with Wagner and Verdi
The Fulbright College department of music will feature UA faculty member Janice Yoes in a vocal program, “An Afternoon with Verdi and Wagner” on Sunday afternoon, August 31st at 3:00 p.m. in the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall. Mrs. Yoes will be joined by guest artists Brenda Frye, soprano, Howard Goode, baritone, and Mary Scott Goode, piano. They will be performing excerpts from three Romantic operas, Richard Wagner’s Lohengrin and Giuseppe Verdi’s Aïda and Il Trovatore.
Yoes has been on the UA faculty since 1985, where she teaches voice. She sang professionally in a world-wide career for over 30 years and was noted as an interpreter of Wagner and Strauss heroines, as well as those of Verdi and Puccini, and sang in many major opera houses throughout the world.
The Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall is located in the Fine Arts Building on the UA campus. Free parking is available in the parking deck, which can be accessed from Stadium Drive and is located directly to the west of the Fine Arts Building. The admission is free and the public is cordially invited to attend. For more information, please call the department of music at (479) 575-4701.
Janice Yoes with Featured Guest Artists
Brenda Frye, Howard Goode, Mary Scott Goode
Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall Sunday, 3 P.M.
Fine Arts Center August 31st, 2008
PROGRAM
Lohengrin, Act II, Scene II Richard Wagner
Euch Lüften… (1813-1883)
Elsa!…
Entweihte Götter…
Ortrud! Wo bist du?
So zieht das Unheil…
Brenda Frye, Elsa/ Janice Yoes, Ortrud/ Howard Goode, Friedrich
Intermission
Aïda Giuseppe Verdi
Ciel, mio padre (1813-1901)
Janice Yoes, Aïda / Howard Goode, Amonasro
Il Trovatore Giuseppe Verdi
Act I: Tacea la notte placida…Di tale amor
Act II: Il balen del suo sorriso
Act IV: D’amor sull’ ali rosee
Udiste!…Mira, di acerbe lagrime
Brenda Frye, Leonora / Howard Goode, Count di Luna
All selections accompanied at the pianoforte by Mary Scott Goode
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