EXHIBITIONS | CREATIVITY | HISTORY | RESIDENCY
A FOUR CONCERT SERIES
Thursday September 29, 2022 at 6:30pm
Friday September 30, 2022 at 6:30pm
Saturday October 1, 2022 at 6:30pm
Sunday October 2, 2022 at 12pm
It is with great pleasure that we announce the inaugural season of the Sag Harbor Song Festival.
The ingredients promise a world class experience of music in a setting of intrinsic beauty and an intimacy of presentation. A four-concert festival spanning three evenings and culminating with a matinee performance, the performances will consist of a mixture of operatic repertory, musical theatre, songs and lieder covering a musical panorama and highlighting the talent of six rising stars of immense talent. These singers have appeared on the stages of the Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera, the Aix-en-Provence Festival, the Bayerische Opera, Staatstheater Stuttgart, and in venues from the White House to St. Patrick's Cathedral.
We are very fortunate to have for the musical planning of the Program two colleagues whose combined efforts in the cause of music speak for themselves. Brad Woolbright, Artistic Director, and Robert Tweten, Musical Director, for the Festival, have a combined seven plus decades in the world of music.
SINGERS
Anna Christy, soprano
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Leah Hawkins, soprano
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Sarah Coit, mezzo-soprano
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Jonathan Johnson, tenor
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Jarrett Ott, baritone
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David Leigh, bass
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ARTISTIC DIRECTOR - BRAD WOOLBRIGHT
Recently retired from The Santa Fe Opera (after 43 years) as Director of Artistic Administration, Mr. Woolbright has been involved in the presentation of over 40 American and World Premieres. He has served as a judge of numerous vocal competitions, including the Richard Tucker Award and the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions.
MUSIC DIRECTOR - ROBERT TWETEN
Maestro Tweten has performed extensively as both a pianist and conductor throughout the US and his native Canada, and currently holds the position of Head of Music Staff for The Santa Fe Opera and Music Director of Graduate Opera Studies for the New England Conservatory. He has performed with many of the industry's most prominent singers and instrumentalists. More information can be found on his website: http://www.roberttweten.com/
Repertoire
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Tornami a vagheggiar (from Alcina)
Piangerò la sorte mia (from Giulio Cesare)
Anna Christy, soprano
Salut, demeure chaste et pure (from Faust)
Jonathan Johnson, tenor
Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (Songs of a Wayfarer)
Sarah Coit, mezzo-soprano
Au fond du temple saint (from Les pécheurs de perles)
Jonathan Johnson and Jarrett Ott, baritone
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Intermission
Dunque io son (from Il Barbiere di Siviglia)
Sarah Coit and Jarrett Ott
Hatsu Koi
Hamabe no Uta
Kono michi
Anna Christy
Now have I fed and eaten up the rose (Three Songs Op. 45)
A Green Lowland of Pianos 
O boundless, boundless Evening 
Jarrett Ott
Solitary Hotel (from Despite and Still Op. 41 #4)
Jarrett Ott
Sure on This Shining Night
Jarett Ott
Dal labbro il canto (from Falstaff)
Jonathan Johnson
Bella figlia dell’ amore (Rigoletto Quartet)
Anna Christy, Sarah Coit, Jonathan Johnson and Jarrett Ott
Thursday, September 29th
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Handel
Handel
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Gounod
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Mahler
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Bizet
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Rossini
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Koshitani
Narita
Yamada
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Samuel Barber
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Samuel Barber
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Samuel Barber
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Verdi
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Verdi
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Der Engel (Wesendonck Lieder)
Stehe still!
Im Treibhaus
Schmerzen
Träume
Leah Hawkins, soprano
Svegliatevi nel core (from Giulio Cesare)
Cara speme
Sarah Coit, mezzo-soprano
Ella giammai m’amò (from Don Carlo)
David Leigh, bass
Io son l’umile ancella (from Adriana Lecouvrer)
Leah Hawkins
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Intermission
Dein ist mein ganzes Herz (from Das Land des Lächelns)
Jonathan Johnson, tenor
La flûte de Pan (Chansons de Bilitis)
La chevelure
Le tombeau des Naiades
Sarah Coit
Go Down, Moses
Oh Waly Waly
Poor Wayfarin’ Stranger
Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho
David Leigh
New York Lights (from A View from the Bridge)
Jonathan Johnson
Vissi d’arte (from Tosca)
Leah Hawkins
Friday, September 30th
Wagner
Handel
Verdi
Francesco Cilea
Franz Lehar
Debussy
Traditional
Arr. D. Leigh
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William Bolcom
Puccini
Come un’ape ne’giorni d’aprile (from La Cenerentola)
Jarrett Ott, baritone
Idolatry (Songs of Separation)
Poéme
Parted
If You Should Go
A Black Pierrot
Leah Hawkins, soprano
Wie schön ist doch die Musik (from Die Schweigsame Frau)
David Leigh, bass
Ich wollt’ ein Sträusslein binden
Ständchen
Ich sehe wie in einem Spiegel
Anna Christy, soprano
Les chemins de l’amour
Leah Hawkins
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Intermission
Chanson Romanesque (from Don Quichotte à Dulcinée)
Chanson épique
Chanson à boire
Jarrett Ott
Five romances on words from the journal Krokodil, Op. 121
1. First-hand Testimony
2. A Hard Wish to Fulfill
3. Caution
4. Irinka and the Shepherd
5. Excessive Enthusiasm
David Leigh
Waitin’
Amor
Anna Christy
Merry Widow Duet (from The Merry Widow)
Leah Hawkins and Jarrett Ott
O mio babbino caro (from Gianni Schicchi)
Anna Christy
Saturday, October 1st
Rossini
William Grant Still
Richard Strauss
Richard Strauss
Poulenc
Ravel
Shostakovich
William Bolcom
Lehar
Puccini
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L’Invitation au Voyage
Phidylé
Chanson triste
La vie antérieure
Jonathan Johnson, tenor
La vie en rose
Leah Hawkins, soprano
Man of La Mancha medley
David Leigh, bass
Lieben, Hassen, Hoffen, Zagen (Harlequin’s aria) (from Ariadne auf Naxos)
Jarrett Ott, baritone
Kein andres (from Capriccio)
Jonathan Johnson
Hab mir’s gelobt (from Der Rosenkavalier)
Leah Hawkins; Anna Christy, soprano; Sarah Coit, mezzo-soprano
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Intermission
On the Steps of the Palace (from Into the Woods)
Anna Christy
Maria (from West Side Story)
Jonathan Johnson
Unusual Way (from Nine)
Sarah Coit
The Boy From… (from The Mad Show)
Sarah Coit
Lily’s Eyes (from The Secret Garden)
Jonathan Johnson and Jarrett Ott
Popular (from Wicked)
Anna Christy
If Ever I Would Leave You (from Camelot)
Jarrett Ott
Some Enchanted Evening (from South Pacific)
Jarrett Ott
If I were a rich man (from Fiddler on the Roof)
David Leigh
Climb Every Mountain (from Sound of Music)
Leah Hawkins
Make Our Garden Grow (from Candide)
Anna Christy, Leah Hawkins, Sarah Coit, Jonathan Johnson, Jarrett Ott, David Leigh
Sunday, October 2nd
Henri Duparc
Edith Piaf
Mitch Leigh
Richard Strauss
Richard Strauss
Richard Strauss
Sondheim
Bernstein
Maury Yeston
Mary Rodgers &
Sondheim
Lucy Simon & Marsha Norman
Stephen Schwarz
Lerner & Loewe
Rodgers &
Hammerstein
Bock & Harnick
Rodgers & Hammerstein
Bernstein
TICKETS​​
Individual Tickets: $75
Ticket Package (Includes four tickets): $250