TAMMY HENSRUD, SOPRANO

PAOLO BARTOLANI, PIANO

BORGHESE VINEYARD

Opera Night & Dinner
featuring
Tammy Hensrud, soprano
Paolo Bartolani, piano         
in collaboration with young professional singers
Nicholas Mackey, tenor 
Jerome Boxer, baritone 
at     
Castello di Borghese Vineyard
17150 Rte 48, Mattituck, NY 11952    
Saturday, December 9th, 2023, 
from 5:00pm - 7:00pm

TICKETS for ONLY 40 SEATS

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​Description
 Come to celebrate the holiday season!
After our successful Summer Concert & Dinner last summer, we are excited to announce the 
Opera Night & Dinner at Borghese Vineyard.
A special event that combines songs, arias and operatic pieces with a delicious dinner paired with Borghese wine.  
It’s an intimate indoor concert featuring the exceptional soprano Tammy Hensrud performing music by Cecile Chaminade, Amy Beach in collaboration with some young talented singers presenting works by Donizetti, Respighi, Mozart and Tosti while the audience are seated at the table.  Wine tasting and a charming dinner offered by the chef Martine Abitbol will be served at the table during the intermission of the concert.

​Music Program Part One 
AMY BEACH
Nacht (Night)
Ah love but a day from Browning Songs
I send my heart up to Thee from Browning Songs
 
CLAUDE DEBUSSY
Nuit d’Etoiles

CECILE CHAMINADE 
La Lune paresseuse 
Viens, mon bien-aimé 
Espoir  
Tammy Hensrud, soprano   Paolo Bartolani, piano
 
Table Dinner Menu (45 minutes)
Vegan - Vegetarian Mattituck Mushrooms Risotto
Mix Salad with Farm Beets and Carrots Calamari Peconic Bay Scallops Homemade Aioli
Homemade Bread and Farm Fresh Butter with Herbs
Mix Green Salad with Lemon Dressing
Assortment of Homemade Chocolate and small pastries
Chef: Martine Abitbol

Music Program Part Two 

FRANCESCO PAOLO TOSTI      Malia
RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS          Silent Moon (the song of love)                       
Nicholas Mackey, tenor Paolo Bartolani, piano
 
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
Se vuol ballare Figaro from Le Nozze di Figaro
Ho capito, Signor si Masetto’s aria from Don Giovanni
Jerome Boxer, baritone Paolo Bartolani, piano

OTTORINO RESPIGHI   Notte   
GAETANO DONIZETTI   Quanto e’ bella Nemorino’s aria from L’Elisir d’Amore
Nicholas Mackey, tenor Paolo Bartolani, piano
 
FRANCESCO CILEA
Io son l'umile ancella from Adriana Lecouvreur
Tammy Hensrud, soprano   Paolo Bartolani, piano

This is a production of 
Rites of Spring Music Festival
in collaboration with
Castello di Borghese Vineyard

​This project is made possible in part with funds from t the
Suffolk County Office of Cultural Affairs and the Statewide Community Regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature and administered by Huntington Arts Council

Tammy Hensrud, soprano

Soprano Tammy Hensrud, hailed by Switzerland’s Opernwelt as “…a remarkably beautiful voice capable of many colors and nuances…a singer who is also a natural actress” has appeared in opera houses throughout Germany, Austria, France, Italy, Japan, Israel, South Africa and the US including the Metropolitan Opera, Vienna State Opera, Stuttgart Opera, Theatre de Chatelet in Paris, Klagenfurt Stadttheater, Salzburg Festival, Cleveland Opera, Opera Orchestra of New York, New York City Opera, and the Spoleto Arts Festival under notable conductors such as James Levine, Herbert von Karajan, Emmanuelle Villaume and others. She has been heard in Recitals and concerts throughout the US, Canada and Europe and has recorded with the Netherlands Radio Orchestra, Süddeutsche Rundfunk Orchestra, and Manhattan Chamber Orchestra. Her core repertoire includes the great operatic roles of Strauss, Mozart, Rossini, Bellini, Puccini and orchestral works of Mahler, Berlioz and Wagner. Her acclaimed European debut as Romeo in I Capuletti e i Montecchi came while still a member of the Vienna State Opera’s Young Artist Program. Invitations to opera houses in Germany, Austria and Italy soon followed.
Her versatility as a performer has allowed her to cross over into musical theater roles such as the Mother Abbess in the Sound of Music, which she sang in a three-month run at the Ordway Theater in Minneapolis. As a sought-after interpreter of Kurt Weill, she has performed one woman Kurt Weill/Cabaret shows at The National Concert Hall in Dublin, Ireland, The Players Club Bechstein Concert Series and the Lucille Lortel Theater in New York.  Ms. Hensrud has performed recitals throughout Germany, Austria and France and has recorded Gounod’s Mors et Vita with the Netherlands Radio Orchestra. In the United States, Ms. Hensrud was heard at the Rutgers University SummerFest in Mahler’s Kindertotenlieder and returned to Rutgers University to sing in Mahler’s Third Symphony. Other recent concert engagements include Mahler’s Des Knaben Wunderhorn, Berlioz’s Les Nuit d’ete, Vivaldi’s Gloria with the Songe d’ete Quebec, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony and the Soprano Soloist in world premiere of Gerald Custer’s Everything Indicates at Carnegie Hall.  Ms. Hensrud has frequently appeared with the Manhattan Chamber Orchestra in world premiere concerts featuring American composers at Merkin Hall and Symphony Space, has toured the United States with the Trio, Solomania, performing recitals with cellist Zvi Plesser and pianist Daniel Blumenthal, has appeared in concert with the award-winning Chiara String Quartet as well as with her Trio, The Enigma Trio with Svetlana Goroghovich, Piano and Ben Capps, Cello, in Vocal Chamber recitals. In 2008 Ms. Hensrud co-founded Feminine Musique, a recital duo dedicated to performing the compositions of women composers which has performed throughout the United States and Europe.
A most versatile artist, she has performed at the Metropolitan, New York City, Stuttgart, and Vienna State Operas, the Salzburg and Spoleto Festivals and in Musical Theater, Cabaret and Kurt Weill one-woman shows both in NY and abroad. Ms. Hensrud serves on the Faculties of Hofstra University and St. Olaf College as Professor of Voice.
As a proponent of contemporary music, Ms. Hensrud has sung the World Premiere Performance of Christoph Hohlfeld’s Zwei Legenden for the Sud-Deutsche Rundfunk, Richard Yardumian’s To Mary in Heaven, Richard Ratner’s Spoon River Anthology, Mrs. Evans, in the Blitzstein/Lehrman Opera Sacco and Vanzetti, and with the Manhattan Chamber Orchestra has recorded Gerold Chenoweth’s Two Poems by e.e. cummings and a premiere of Seymour Barab’s one woman opera Everything Must Be Perfect. She premiered Adolphus Hailstork’s “I Speak Peace” with the Bismarck Symphony for Soprano soloist and Children’s Choir in honor of President John F. Kennedy.  Ms. Hensrud created two premiere roles with the Center for Contemporary Opera in NYC: Marie-Hélène in François Dompierre’s “Is Paris Burning?” and Rose Kennedy in Chandler Carter’s opera “Bobby”.
Ms. Hensrud began her career as a cellist and holds the Bachelor of Music Degree in Cello Performance, Master of Music and Master of Arts degrees from the University of North Dakota. She received a Fulbright Scholarship and continued post-graduate studies abroad at the Opernschule, Hochschule für Musik in Stuttgart, Germany where she received an Artist Diploma. Further studies were at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria, the Franz Liszt Musik Akadamie in Weimar, Germany and the L’ecole Hindemith in Vevey, Switzerland. Ms. Hensrud is often in demand as a Master Class teacher, National Adjudicator, and Clinician. She has served on the faculty of Hofstra University as Adjunct Professor of Voice since 2005, is currently Visiting Professor of Voice at St. Olaf College in Northfield, MN and is on the faculty of several prestigious Summer Young Artist Programs in the New York area. Additionally, she serves as Vocal Director of the Oyster Bay Summer Music Festival, focusing on Collaborative Vocal Chamber music repertoire.

Paolo Bartolani, pianist
Founder & Artistic Director of Rites of Spring Music Festival
Paolo Bartolani is a pianist, musicologist and music manager, working in both classical and contemporary music. He graduated in 1989 from the Santa Cecilia Music Conservatory in Rome (Italy). He studied with Eduardo Hubert, and after graduation, with Charles Rosen, György Sándor and Andor Foldes. He also studied French piano repertoire with Germaine Mounier at the Ecole Normale de Musique in Paris. In 1994, he received his Master in Musicology of the 20th century degree under the direction of Hugues Dufourt at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales in collaboration with IRCAM / Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris. Paolo performs as a soloist and also as a member of chamber ensembles in Europe and United States.
He writes articles for the musicology journals Sonus-Materials for Contemporary Music and Music/Reality. In 2006, he created a Master Degree Program in Cultural Enterprise Administration at the University of Perugia, where he also teaches.
At the Venice Biennale, from 2008 to 2012, Paolo was the General Coordinator of ENPARTS - European Network of Performing Arts, which promotes the creation of new works in dance, music and theater by young artists. From 2009 to 2014 he was the Director of the Résonnance Italy, a nonprofit organization based in Switzerland, where he was responsible for its artistic and humanitarian program, "bringing music to places where it is not heard."  The members of the organization – singers, instrumentalists, conductors – have performed more than two hundred concerts in hospitals, nursing homes and prisons in order to promote musical sensibilities and share the joy of music.
He has been the General Coordinator of Music Up Close Network at Santa Cecilia National Academy in Rome. The Network includes seven European orchestras who promote new orchestral works and support a new generation of musicians to connect with young audiences.
He founded the Rites of Spring Music Fest in 2016 to promote classical and contemporary music on the North Fork of Long Island, and to combine music, history and the natural environment. The Festival currently is a non-profit organization 501c3 and he is the Artistic Director and Responsible for developing the Festival’s program. ​