Opera Scenes 2014

The singing actors of the USC Thornton Opera program present an exciting and wide ranging selection of excerpts from grand opera to operetta featuring music from the work of American legend Jeanette MacDonald.

Performance List

La Rondine
by Giacomo Puccini
Opening through Magda’s aria

Goyescas
by Enrique Granados
Third Tableau, Scene II

Peter Grimes
by Benjamin Britten
Act II Quartet

Die Walküre
by Richard Wagner
Act I, Scene III

The Cunning Little Vixen
by Leoš Janáček
Act II duet

La Rondine
by Giacomo Puccini
Act II Quartet

Monte Carlo
by Franke Harling
“Beyond the Blue Horizon”

Vagabond King
by Rudolf Friml
“Only a Rose”
“Love for Sale”

I Married an Angel
by Richard Rogers
“Spring is Here”

The Boys from Syracuse
by Richard Rogers
“Falling in Love with Love”
“This Can’t be Love”
“The Shortest Day of the Year”
“Sing for your Supper”

Of Thee I Sing
by George Gershwin
“Love is Sweeping the Country”
“S’wonderful”
“Who Cares”
“Of Thee I Sing”