Details

Barbican Hall
Silk Street
Barbican, City of London
London
EC2Y 8DS
England

Monday 5th January 2015
7:30 PM

Programme

Jules Massenet – Toi! Vous!!...N'est-ce plus ma main from Manon
Wright & Forrest – And this is my beloved from Kismet
Frank Loesser – Guys and Dolls: 'I'll know'
Rodgers & Hammerstein – Carousel: 'If I loved you'
Leonard Bernstein – West Side Story: 'One hand, one heart'
Giacomo Puccini – La Bohème: 'O soave fanciulla'
Giuseppe Verdi – La Traviata: 'Un di felice'
Charles Gounod – Faust: Il se fait tard
Gaetano Donizetti – L'Elisir d'Amore: 'Caro Elisir...Esulti pur la Barbara'
Giuseppe Verdi – Rigoletto: 'Signor ne prinicipe -E il sol...addio speranza'
Pietro Mascagni – L'Amico Fritz: Cherry Duet

Performers

Ailyn Perez – soprano
Stephen Costello – tenor

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Programme Note

Ailyn Perez and Stephen Costello, two young American singers – now dubbed 'America’s fastest-rising husband-and-wife opera stars' (Associated Press) – bring a spectcular chemistry to the stage.

The couple met at Philadelphia’s Academy of Vocal Arts, where an onstage romance in Puccini’s most beloved operaLa Boheme kindled the flames of a real-life passion. Perez’s sparkling, energetic and passionate persona and Costello’s romantic, charismatic and charming nature have made them both international opera stars in their own right, and this season they appear together across the globe. 

'In Ailyn Pérez’s Juliet and Stephen Costello’s Romeo we easily see the Bard’s impetuous, enraptured young lovers, but more importantly we hear a fullness and warmth in their voices that make Gounod’s opulent lines soar.' San Diego Arts