Lake Charles Symphony

Concert Four – Saturday, April 12, 2008. 7:30 p.m., Rosa Hart Theater, Lake Charles Civic Center
Winner of the 1995 Richard Tucker Foundation Award, American tenor Paul Groves has established himself as a leading lyric tenor with the world's most prominent opera houses and symphony orchestras including the Metropolitan Opera, Opéra de Paris, Royal Opera Covent Garden, Salzburg Festival, New York Philharmonic, Boston Symphony Orchestra, and Vienna Philharmonic. His repertoire encompasses a broad range of roles from Mozart and bel canto to the lyric and heroic roles of the French repertoire.	Paul Groves and Eric Kushner Groves photo by J. Henry Fair
Bill Grimes, Guest Conductor
Overture to La Gazza Ladra – Rossini
Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings – Britten Eric Kushner, French Horn Paul Groves, Tenor
Overture to Cosi fan tutti – Mozart
Operatic Arias Una furtiva lagrima, from L’Elisir d’Amore – Donizetti Ella mi fu rapita!…Parmi veder le lagrime, from Rigoletto – Verdi Va pour Kleinzach, from Les Contes d’Hoffmann – Offenbach Je crois entendre encore, from Les Pêcheurs de Perles – Bizet Salut! demeure chaste et pure, from Faust - Gounod Paul Groves, Tenor