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In Pursuit of the Starlit Sublime Program


Bazaar Café April 27, 2025

4:00pm 

 

 

Vaga luna, che inargenti (1838)                                          Vincenzo Bellini (1801-1835)

Rubina Mazurka, soprano

Dwight Okamura, piano


from Don Giovanni (1787)                                      Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)

La ci darem la mano

Jennifer Park, mezzo-soprano as Don Giovanni

Rubina Mazurka as Zerlina

Dwight Okamura

In quali eccessi…Mi tradi

Rubina Mazurka (Donna Elvira) & Dwight Okamura


Ständchen (1829)                                                Franz Schubert (1797-1828)

Gretchen am Spinnrade (1814)

Rubina Mazurka & Dwight Okamura


Fantasiestückchen (2024)                                                   George Papajohn

Soren Nyhus, cello


from 12 Tonadillas en estilo antiguo (1912)                            Enrique Granados (1867-1916)

El mirar de la maja

Rubina Mazurka & Soren Nyhus


selection from                                                    Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)

Sonatine M. 40

Jackson Green, piano


from (Les contes d’Hoffmann) The Tales of Hoffmann (1880)                 Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880) 

Elle a fui, la tourterelle!

Rubina Mazurka as Antonia & Dwight Okamura

Belle nuit, ô nuit d’amour (Barcarolle)

Rubina Mazurka as Giulietta, Jennifer Part as Niklausse, & Dwight Okamura


from Bird’s Eye View (2024)                                                  Devin Farney

Short-Sighted Serenade

Rubina Mazurka & Dwight Okamura


Pietà, Signore!                                                                      TBD

          att. Alessandro Stradella 

      arr. Rubina Mazurka

Rubina Mazurka, Soren Nyhus, & Dwight Okamura 

 

Adelaide                                                   Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) 

Rubina Mazurka & Dwight Okamura

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