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Opera Nights - Opera moves you (more)

Classical Concert

Willem Hijstek Hall - Bonnefantenstraat 15 Maastricht

19:00 - 20:30

19:00 - 20:30

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Veel opera, waar geen avond hetzelfde is!

Kom naar twee betoverende avonden vol opera, gepresenteerd door twintig gepassioneerde zangstudenten van de operaklas 2025–2026. Elke avond heeft een ander programma, van levendige ensembles tot ontroerende duetten en indrukwekkende solo optredens.

Beleef het volledige spectrum van menselijke emoties: geluk, vreugde, vriendschap, liefde, betovering, opoffering, verdriet, wraak, moed, waanzin, jaloezie, rouw en nog veel meer, allemaal tot leven gebracht in een rijke selectie van operafragmenten.


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’

  • Mariana Santos Prino (BA3)

La Bohème (1896) – Giacomo Puccini (1858–1924)
‘Mimì?! Speravo di trovarTi qui’
‘D’onde lieta uscì’

  • Mar Pino Charlez (MA1)

  • Bálint Vegh (MA2)

  • 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.