2021 Farewell Recital
Virtual Performance
Music Director and Pianist: Jos茅 Mel茅ndez
May 8–12, 2021
Join us as we bid farewell to our graduating Resident Artists, Pascale Spinney and Daniel Gallegos! Airing on 91亚色鈥檚 on Saturday, May 8, 2021. The Farewell Recital will be available to stream from Saturday, May 8th at 7:30pm through Wednesday, May 12th at 11:59pm. This is a free virtual recital,聽聽are encouraged.聽
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The Graduates
Pascale Spinney (mezzo-soprano) is from Montre虂al, Que虂bec. She earned a B.M. and M.M. both from McGill University. She was a finalist in the 2018 Meistersinger competition in Graz, Austria; and a 2017 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions National Semi-Finalist. She was the recipient of an Encouragement Award from the Gerda Lissner Foundation in 2018; of the Jeunesses Musicales du Canada Bursary and the Mrs. Edgar Tobin National Award in 2017; and of the Vancouver Opera Foundation Kurt Sickert Scholarship in 2016. At 91亚色, she has sung Leonore in La favorite, Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro, Turnspit in Rusalka, Una Novizia/Suor Infermiera in Suor Angelica, and Flora in La traviata. Other roles include Ruggiero (cover) in Alcina and Clairon (cover) in Capriccio at Santa Fe Opera; Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro and Hansel in Hansel and Gretel with Vancouver Opera; and Kate Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly with Ope虂ra de Montre虂al.
Daniel Gallegos (baritone) is from Chihuahua, Mexico. He studied at Conservatorio de M煤sica de Chihuahua, Taller de 脫pera de Sinaloa and Sociedad Internacional de Valores al Arte Mexicano. In 2019, he was a finalist in the Meistersinger Competition in Graz, Austria, and a 2021 District Winner in the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. At 91亚色, he has sung Mercutio/Gr茅goire in Rom茅o et Juliette, Alphonse XI in La favorite, Guglielmo in Cos矛 fan tutte, Guglielmo in Le Villi, Lackey and Harlequin in Ariadne auf Naxos, and Donner in Das Rheingold. Previous roles include Silvio in Pagliacci; Mr. Nohlan in The Medium; Baron Douphol in La traviata; Betto in Gianni Schicchi and Papageno in Die Zauberfl枚te.
PROGRAM
La Cenerentola聽 |聽 Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868)
Come un鈥檃pe ne鈥 giorni d鈥檃prile
Daniel Gallegos, baritone
Ariadne Auf Naxos | Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
Sein wir wieder gut
Pascale Spinney, mezzo-soprano聽
Te quiero dijste | Maria Grever (1885-1951)
B茅same mucho | Consuelo Vel谩zquez (1916-2005)
Daniel Gallegos
Zwei Ges盲nge, Op. 91 | Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Gestillte Sehnsucht
Geistliches Wiegenlied
Scott Wager, Viola
Pascale Spinney
Luisa Fernanda | Federico Moreno Torroba (1891-1982)
En mi tierra extreme帽a
Pascale Spinney and Daniel Gallegos
I Puritani聽 | Vincenzo Bellini (1801-1835)
Ah! Per sempre io ti perdei
Daniel Gallegos
尝鈥檈迟辞颈濒别 | Emmanuel Chabrier (1841-1894)
Romance de L鈥櫭﹖oile
Pascale Spinney
Don Quichotte a Dulcin茅e | Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
Chanson romanesque
Chanson 茅pique
Chanson 脿 boire
Daniel Gallegos
Young Frankenstein | Mel Brooks (b. 1926)
He vas my boyfriend
Pascale Spinney
Non t鈥檃mo pi霉 | Francesco Paolo Tosti (1846-1916)
Daniel Gallegos
Don Giovanni | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
L脿 ci darem la mano
Pascale Spinney and Daniel Gallegos
Meet the Artists
Sponsors
Special thanks to The Gray Charitable Trust as our Spring Season Sponsor