MEROLA OPERA

ABOUT

Co-curated with San Francisco Opera Center Artistic Director Carrie-Ann Matheson, this vocal chamber recital explored the narrative arc of the song and featured ten artists from the 2024 Merola program and additional chamber musicians. Each piece offered audiences a deeply compelling story, summarized in just a few minutes.

PROGRAM

INTRODUCTION
ROBERT OWENS: Havana Dreams 

PASSION
HENRY THACKER BURLEIGH: Her Eyes, Twin Pools
HENRY THACKER BURLEIGH: Your Lips are Wine
HENRY THACKER BURLEIGH: Among the Fuchsias from Five Songs of Laurence Hope
HENRY THACKER BURLEIGH: Tide

PEACE / REST
HOWARD SWANSON: I Will Lie Down In Autumn
ZENOBIA POWELL PERRY: Pastourelle 

FOR HOME / FOR A BELOVED PLACE
CHEN YI: Bright Moonlight 
LAUREANO QUANT: Ahora hablo de gaitas
ZENOBIA POWELL PERRY: Alien

A BETTER WORLD
STACY GARROP: What Can One Woman Do? from In Eleanor's Words  

LUST
MOHAMMED FAIROUZ: After The Revels
JUSTINE F. CHEN: Whilst Alexis Lay Press'd  

A DIFFERENT LIFE
IAN CUSSON: Where There's A Wall from Where There's A Wall
FLORENCE PRICE: Sympathy
ROBERT OWENS: Heart
ERROLLYN WALLEN: Daedalus 

LOVE
UNDINE SMITH MOORE: Lyric for Truelove
VIET CUONG: O Do Not Love Too Long
UNDINE SMITH MOORE: I want to die while you love me
MARIA GREVER: Jurame