Too Hot to Handel! An Evening of Handel and Shakespeare
Tue, December 5, 2023 | 7:30pm
Thu, December 7, 2023 | 7:30pm
NEC: Plimpton Shattuck Black Box Theatre | Directions
255 St. Botolph St.
Boston, MA
United States
Join first year graduate students as they present two evenings of Handel arias and Shakespeare monologues.
Joshua Major is the director of the Handel arias and Steven Goldstein directs the Shakespeare monologues. Sujin Choi and Ji Yung Lee are the accompanists and coaches for the arias.
This is an in-person event with a private stream available to the NEC community here: https://necmusic.edu/live.
ACT I
“And I, forsooth, in love!” from Love Labour’s Lost (Act III, Scene I)
Lord Berowne: Morgan Mastrangelo
“Mio caro bene” from Rodelinda
Rodelinda: Shanti Fowler-Puja, soprano
“My lord, as I was sewing” from Hamlet (Act II, Scene I)
Ophelia: Melissa Pereyra
“Care selve” from Atlanta
Atlanta: Xiangning Ouyang, soprano
“No shame but mine: I must, forsooth, be forced” (Act III, Scene II)
Katherine: Dongyang Li
“Del mio sol vezzosi rai” from Ariodante
Lurcanio: KaiLiang Wei, tenor
“I would not be thy executioner” from As You Like it (Act III, Scene V)
Phebe: Shanti Fowler-Puja
“Basta! Che sol tu chieda” from Rinaldo
Argante: Hengzuo Yan, baritone
“Within the bond of marriage, tell me, Brutus,” from Julius Caesar (Act II, Scene I)
Portia: Xiangning Ouyang
“V’adoro Pupile” from Giulio Cesare
Cleopatra: Dongyang Li, soprano
“All murdered: for with the hollow crown…” from Richard II (Act III, Scene II)
King Richard: Hengzuo Yan
“Un momento di contento” from Alcina
Oronte: Morgan Mastrangelo, tenor
“I am in condition a prince, Miranda, I do think a king;” from The Tempest (Act III, Scene I)
Ferdinand: KaiLiang Wei
“Che cede al furore” from Serse
Romilda: Melissa Pereyra, soprano
Artists
Ji Yung Lee, pianist and coach
ACT II
“O sleep” from Semele
Semele: Zeyu Song, soprano
“Now I might do it pat” from Hamlet (Act III, Scene III)
Hamlet: Suowei Wu
“Away! I do condemn mine ears that have” from Cymbeline (Act I, Scene VI)
Imogen: Alexis Reese
“Voi mi dite” from Serse
Atlanta: Yejin Jang, soprano
“If heaven have any grievous plague in store” from Richard III (Act I, Scene III)
Queen Margaret: Lara Suer
“Io gia t’amai” from Rodelinda
Grimoaldo: Dongchen Xu, tenor
“Puppet? Why so? Ay, that way goes the game.” from Midsummer Night’s Dream (Act III, Scene II)
Hermia: Zeyu Song
“E gelosia” from Serse
Romilda: Sydney Pexton, soprano
“Unhappy that I am, I cannot heave” from King Lear (Act I, Scene I)
Cordelia: Yejin Jang
“Spietati, io vi giurai” from Rodelinda
Rodelinda: Alexis Reese, soprano
“Ombre piante” from Rodelinda
Rodelinda: Lara Suer, soprano
“I am, my lord, as well derived as he” from Midsummer Night’s Dream (Act I, Scene I)
Lysander: Dongchen Xu
“Pastorello” from Rodelinda
Grimoaldo: Suowei Wu, tenor
Epilogue from As You Like It
Rosalind: Sydney Pexton
Artists
Sujin Choi, pianist and coach
