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Lots of opera, where no night is the same!
Join us for two enchanting evenings of opera, presented by twenty passionate vocal students from the Opera Class 2025 - 2026. Each evening features a different programme, from lively ensembles to moving duets and powerful solo performances.
Experience the full spectrum of human emotion: happiness, joy, friendship, love, enchantment, sacrifice, sadness, revenge, courage, madness, jealousy, mourning, and much more all brought to life through a rich selection of opera excerpts.
Thursday 11 December – Opera moves you
Die lustige Witwe (1905) – Franz Lehár (1870–1948)
‘Grisettenlied’
Solo voices in order of appearance:
Ensemble* /Choreography by Anouk Habets
- Agni Perikleous (BA3)
- Francisca Silva Djacabi (BA4)
- Andreea Agiurgioaei (BA4)
- Connlaodh Mc Donagh (MA2)
- Beatriz Da Guia Bôto (BA4)
- Hannah Deppisch (BA4)
- Yana Wyckaert (BA3)
- Danique Paffen (BA4)
- Mariana Santos Prino (BA3)
Eine Frau, die weiß, was sie will (1932) – Oscar Straus (1870–1954)
‘Warum soll eine Frau kein Verhältnis haben’
- Agni Perikleous (BA3)
Der Rosenkavalier (1911) – Richard Strauss (1864–1949)
‘Ohne mich, ohne mich jeder Tag Dir so bang’
- Devon Baird (MA2)
- Francisca Silva Djacabi (BA4)
Le nozze di Figaro (1786) – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791)
‘Hai già vinta la causa / Vedrò mentre io sospiro’
- Jordi Ferrer Colomer (MA1)
Alcina (1735) – Georg Friedrich Händel (1685–1759)
‘Sta nell’ircana’
- Francisca Silva Djacabi (BA4)
Don Pasquale (1843) – Gaetano Donizetti (1797–1848)
‘Quel guardo il cavaliere’
- Luna Gräfin von Hardenberg (MA1)
Il turco in Italia (1814) – Gioachino Rossini (1792–1868)
‘Sì: mi è forza partir / Son la vite sul campo appassita’
- Maria Kazaka (MA2)
- Anthony Bastos (MA2)
- Jordi Ferrer Colomer (MA1)
Il barbiere di Siviglia (1816) – Gioachino Rossini (1792–1868)
‘Una voce poco fa’
‘Dunque io son’
- Andreea Agiurgioaei (BA4)
- Jordi Ferrer Colomer (MA1)
La Tilda (1892) – Francesco Cilea (1866–1950)
‘A chi è pietoso / Ave Maria’
- Luna Gräfin von Hardenberg (MA1)
- Maria Kazaka (MA2)
- Beatriz Da Guia Bôto (BA4)
Luisa Fernanda (1932) – Federico Moreno Torroba (1891–1982)
‘Para comprar a un hombre’
- Andrea Palomo de Alcántara (MA2)
- Jordi Ferrer Colomer (MA1)
La tabernera del puerto (1936) – Pablo Sorozábal Mariezcurrena (1897–1988)
‘No puede ser!’
- Àngel Arévalo Salas (MA2)
The Mikado [or The Town of Titipu] (1885) – Arthur S. Sullivan (1842–1900)
‘Three little maids from school’
- Mariana Santos Prino (BA3)
- Beatriz Da Guia Bôto (BA4)
- Francisca Silva Djacabi (BA4)
Ciboulette (1923) – Reynaldo Hahn (1874–1947)
‘Amour qui meurt’
Ensemble* / Choreography by Anouk Habets
Solo voices in order of appearance:
- Mar Pino Charlez (MA1)
- Maria Kazaka (MA2)
- Luna Gräfin von Hardenberg (MA1)
Roméo et Juliette (1867) – Charles Gounod (1818–1893)
‘Je veux vivre’
‘De grâce, demeurez! / Ange adorable’
- Yana Wyckaert (BA3)
- Àngel Arévalo Salas (MA2)
Orphée aux enfers (1858) – Jacques Offenbach (1819–1880)
‘Menuet et Galop infernal’
Ensemble* / Choreography by Anouk Habets
Solo voices in order of appearance:
- Bálint Vegh (MA2)
- Andrea Palomo de Alcántara (MA2)
- Connlaodh Mc Donagh (MA2)
- Miriam Pascual Benavent (MA2)
- Àngel Arévalo Salas (MA2)
- Devon Baird (MA2)
*Ensemble:
Master 1:
Soprano: Luna Gräfin von Hardenberg, Mar Pino Charlez
Baritone: Jordi Ferrer Colomer, Afonso Fontão da Costa
Master 2:
Soprano: Andrea Palomo de Alcántara, Connlaodh Mc Donagh, Maria Kazaka
Mezzo-soprano: Miriam Pascual Benavent
Tenor: Àngel Arévalo Salas
Baritone: Anthony Bastos, Bálint Vegh
Bass: Devon Baird
Bachelor 3:
Soprano: Agni Perikleous, Mariana Santos Prino, Yana Wyckaert
Bachelor 4:
Soprano: Andreea Agiurgioaei, Danique Paffen, Hannah Deppisch
Mezzo-soprano: Beatriz Da Guia Bôto, Francisca Silva Djacabi
Friday 12 December – Opera moves you more
Der Freischütz (1821) – Carl Maria von Weber (1786–1826)
‘Schelm, halt fest!’
- Andrea Palomo de Alcántara (MA2)
- Danique Paffen (BA4)
Die Entführung aus dem Serail (1782) – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791)
‘O wie will ich triumphieren’
- Devon Baird (MA2)
Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor (1849) – Otto Nicolai (1810–1849)
‘Nun eilt herbei’
- Danique Paffen (BA4)
Fidelio (1805/1806/1814) – Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)
‘Hat man nicht auch Gold beineben’
- Afonso Fontão da Costa (MA1)
Lolanta (1892) – Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840–1893)
‘Atchevo eta prezhde ne znala’
- Hannah Deppisch (BA4)
La scala di seta (1812) – Gioachino Rossini (1792–1868)
‘Io so ch’hai buon core’
- Connlaodh Mc Donagh (MA2)
- Bálint Vegh (MA2)
Il barbiere di Siviglia (1816) – Gioachino Rossini (1792–1868)
‘Che vecchio sospettoso! / Il vecchietto cerca moglie’
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Mariana Santos Prino (BA3)
La Bohème (1896) – Giacomo Puccini (1858–1924)
‘Mimì?! Speravo di trovarTi qui’
‘D’onde lieta uscì’
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Mar Pino Charlez (MA1)
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Bálint Vegh (MA2)
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Mar Pino Charlez (MA1)
Manon (1884) – Jules Massenet (1842–1912)
‘À quoi bon l’économie / Ô Rosalinde il me faudrait’
- Anthony Bastos (MA2)
Roméo et Juliette (1867) – Charles Gounod (1818–1893)
‘Depuis hier je cherche / Que fais-tu, blanche tourterelle’
- Beatriz Da Guia Bôto (BA4)
Le roi malgré lui (1887) – Emmanuel Chabrier (1841–1894)
‘Oui! Je vous hais! Je vous hais!’
- Hannah Deppisch (BA4)
- Anthony Bastos (MA2)
Billy Budd (1961, revised version) – Benjamin Britten (1913–1976)
‘Look! Through the port comes the moonshine astray’
- Bálint Vegh (MA2)
The Saint of Bleecker Street (1954) – Gian Carlo Menotti (1911–2007)
‘Ah, Michele, don’t you know’
- Miriam Pascual Benavent (MA2)
The Medium (1946) – Gian Carlo Menotti (1911–2007)
‘Bravo! And after the theater, supper and dance. Music!’
- Connlaodh Mc Donagh (MA2)
- [Mariana Santos Prino (mute)]
Trouble in Tahiti (1951) – Leonard Bernstein (1918–1990)
‘Well, of all people / Why? Why did I have to lie?’
- Miriam Pascual Benavent (MA2)
- Afonso Fontão da Costa (MA1)
El barberillo de Lavapiés (1874) – Francisco Asenjo Barbieri
‘Como nací en la calle de la Paloma’
- Andrea Palomo de Alcántara (MA2)
El balcón de la luna (1962) – film
‘Ay, qué calor!’ copla by Rafael de León and Maestro Manuel Quiroga
[arrangement (2025) Jesse Passenier]
- Andrea Palomo de Alcántara (MA2)
- Mar Pino Charlez (MA1)
- Miriam Pascual Benavent (MA2)
Musical guidance and piano accompaniment: Ariadna Ruiz Ruiz
Concept and stage/drama coaching: Roger Smeets
The Opera Class 2025–2026 brings together Bachelor and Master students from the singing classes of
Krismna Bitenc, Yvonne Schiffelers, Susanne Schimmack and Axel Everaert.