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"Libiamo" (The Drinking Song) from La Traviata.....Maggie, Celeste and Stan

Composed by Guiseppe Verdi (1853) 

with new English lyrics by Maggie Hepworth

I'm Going to Sing Some Opera...............................................................Celeste

Written and Composed by Worton David,

George Arthurs and Jerome Kern (1910)

with new lyrics by Celeste Lauer Yanke

 CLASSIC ITALIAN OPERA    

Vissi D'Arte from Tosca....................................................................................Maggie

Composed by Giacomo Puccini (1900)

Libretto

I lived for my art, I lived for love,

I never did harm to a living soul!

With a secret hand I relieved as

many misfortunes as I knew of.

Always with true faith my prayer rose to the holy shrines.

Always with true faith I gave flowers to the altar.

In the hour of grief why, why, O Lord,

why do you reward me thus?

I gave jewels for the Madonna's mantle,

and I gave my song to the stars, to heaven,

which smiled with more beauty.

In the hour of grief why, why, O Lord,

ah, why do you reward me thus?

OPERETTAS

Three Little Maids from School from The Mikado...Maggie, Celeste and Stan

Music by Arthur Sullivan and Libretto by W.S. Gilbert (1885)

When Frederick Was A Little Lad from Pirates of Penzance................Celeste

Music by Arthur Sullivan and Libretto by W.S. Gilbert (1879)

POPULAR MUSIC ADAPTED FROM OPERA

Polovetsian Dances from Prince Igor...................................................Orchestra

Composed by Alexander Borodin (1890)

Stranger in Paradise from Kismet.................................................................Stan

     Composed by Robert Wright and George Forrest

      adapted from music by Alexander Borodin (1953)