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Sacred Sounds

Ave Maria by Franz Schubert | Pamela Butler, Mezzo-Soprano | Victoria Gau, Pianist | December 2023

Opera/Operetta

In her aria Plus de Depit (“No more of bitterness”) from the opera Les Deux Avares (“The Two Misers”), Henriette exults that her wealth is far greater than the silver and gold of her uncle, Gripon, for she has won the heart of her lover, Jerome. | Pamela Butler, Mezzo-Soprano

Chacun a son gout (“Each to his own taste”) from Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauss. Verse 1 in English. Verse 2 in German. | Pamela Butler, Mezzo-Soprano | Victoria Gau, Pianist

Va! Laisse couler mes larmes (“Go! Let my tears flow”) from Werther by Jules Massenet | Pamela Butler, Mezzo-Soprano | Victoria Gau, Pianist | December 2023

Vedrai Carino from Mozart’s Don Giovanni | Pamela Butler, Mezzo-Soprano | Cuong Hung Van, Conductor | Loudoun Lyric Opera 2010

Anthems

Ukrainian National Anthem | Victorian Lyric Opera Orchestra | Joseph Sorge, Conductor

Art Songs

Melisande in the Wood by Alma Goetz (1912). Early 20th century art song based on the 1893 French tragedy, Pelléas et Mélisande. | Pamela Butler, Mezzo-Soprano

Psyché by Emile Paladilhe. Composed in 1887 with text taken from a scene in the a comédie-ballet Psyché, written by Molière in 1670. Cupid has been sent by Venus to make the beautiful maiden Psyché fall in love with an unsightly monster, but he instead falls in love with her himself. | Pamela Butler, Mezzo-Soprano

La Colomba (Tuscsan folk song arranged by Kurt Schindler). A young woman requests a beautiful bird to loan her one of its feathers so that she may write a letter to her lover. | Pamela Butler, Mezzo-Soprano