October 1: “Great Aria Throwdown #2 – LES Edition”

Great Aria Throwdown #2 – LES

October 1, 6:30pm
Location – Campos Garden on 12th Street & Ave C on the Lower East Side, Manhattan

Bahati Barton, soprano
Diana Charlop, soprano
Perri di Christina, mezzo soprano
Jeffrey Mandelbaum, counter tenor
Pablo Zinger, pianist

Program:

Diana – Quel guardo il cavaliere from Don Pasquale (Bellini)
Perry – Deh, non voler costringere from Anna Bolena (Donizetti)
Bahati – Ruhe Sanft from Zaide (Mozart)
Jeffrey – If Music be the Food of Love (Purcell, Third Version)

Diana – Padre germani addio from (Mozart)
Perry – Voi che sapete from Le nozze di Figaro (Mozart)
Jeffrey – Sprezzami quanto sai from L’incoronazione di Poppea (Monteverdi)

Perry – Faites-lui mes aveux from Faust (Gounod)
Bahati – Think of Me from Phantom of the Opera (Webber)
Diana – Obéissons quand leur voix appelle  from (Massenet)
Jeffrey – Fra tempeste from Rodelinda (Handel)

Pablo Zinger is widely acclaimed as a conductor, pianist, composer, arranger, writer, lecturer and narrator, specializing on Astor Piazzolla, tango, Spanish zarzuela, and Latin American music. He has accompanied Plácido Domingo, and recorded with Paquito D’Rivera and Astor Piazzolla. He leads the Valencia-based Zinger Septet, has written for The NY Times, Opera News, and lectured for The NY Philharmonic. He wrote the tango musical Bela, and Las tentaciones de González, premièred in 1999 to a NY Times rave. His show Bésame mucho won the HOLA and ACE prizes. He was Musical Director of the Zarzuela Series at the National Hispanic Cultural Center. He has conducted for Paquito D’Rivera, Tito Puente, Dave Valentin, & Néstor Torres.

Barton, di Christina, Charlop & Mandelbaum