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The Met’s annual Summer Recital Series features six performances in parks throughout all five boroughs, starting June 11 at SummerStage in Central Park.

The Summer Recital Series is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council, and in collaboration with the Department of Parks and Recreation.

Major funding has also been provided by The Elizabeth B. McGraw Foundation, in honor of Mrs. McGraw.

Bill de Blasio, Mayor, City of New York

Tom Finkelpearl, Commissioner, Cultural Affairs

Mitchell J. Silver, Commissioner, Parks and Recreation

Heather Lubov, Executive Director, City Parks Foundation

SUMMER RECITAL SERIES

CORY WEAVER / MET OPERA

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MON JUN 11 | 8 PMCentral Park SummerStageMANHAT TAN

WED JUN 13 | 7 PMBrooklyn Bridge Park Pier 1BROOKLYN

Latonia MooreSOPR ANO

Mario ChangTENOR

Joshua HopkinsBARITONE

Dan SaundersPIANO

Mary Jo HeathHOST

Program subject to change

The photographing, audio recording, or videotaping of this performance is prohibited.

Yamaha is the Official Piano of the Metropolitan Opera.

ROSSINI “Largo al factotum della città”from Il Barbiere di SivigliaJOSHUA HOPKINS

PUCCINI “Che gelida manina” from La BohèmeMARIO CHANG

DVORÁK “Měsíčku na nebi hlubokém” (Song to the Moon) from RusalkaL ATONIA MOORE

BIZET “Au fond du temple saint” from Les Pêcheurs de PerlesMARIO CHANG

JOSHUA HOPKINS

BIZET “Parle-moi de ma mère” from CarmenL ATONIA MOORE

MARIO CHANG

BELLINI “Ah! per sempre io ti perdei” from I PuritaniJOSHUA HOPKINS

PUCCINI “O mio babbino caro” from Gianni SchicchiL ATONIA MOORE

MOZART “Bei Männern” from Die ZauberflöteL ATONIA MOORE

JOSHUA HOPKINS

DONIZET TI “Una furtiva lagrima”from L’Elisir d’AmoreMARIO CHANG

PUCCINI “Addio, mio dolce amor” from EdgarL ATONIA MOORE

INTERMISSION

PUCCINI “O Mimì, tu più non torni” from La BohèmeMARIO CHANG

JOSHUA HOPKINS

CATAL ANI “Ebben … ne andrò lontana” from La WallyL ATONIA MOORE

MOZART “Deh vieni alla finestra” from Don GiovanniJOSHUA HOPKINS

VERDI “Ella mi fu rapita! … Parmi veder le lagrime” from RigolettoMARIO CHANG

VERDI “Parigi, o cara” from La TraviataL ATONIA MOORE

MARIO CHANG

RODGERS “If I Loved You” from CarouselL ATONIA MOORE

JOSHUA HOPKINS

VIVES “Por el humo se sabe donde está el fuego” from Doña FrancisquitaMARIO CHANG

LEHÁR “Meine Lippen, sie küssen so heiß” from GiudittaL ATONIA MOORE

RODGERS “Some Enchanted Evening” from South PacificJOSHUA HOPKINS

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THU JUN 21 | 7 PMClove Lakes ParkSTATEN ISL AND

SAT JUN 23 | 3 PMWilliamsbridge Oval BRONX

WED JUN 27 | 7 PMJackie Robinson ParkMANHAT TAN

FRI JUN 29 | 7 PMSocrates Sculpture ParkQUEENS

Gabriella Reyes de RamírezSOPR ANO

Gerard SchneiderTENOR

Adrian TimpauBARITONE

Dan SaundersPIANO

Program subject to change

The photographing, audio recording, or videotaping of this performance is prohibited.

Yamaha is the Official Piano of the Metropolitan Opera.

VERDI “Questa o quella”from RigolettoGER ARD SCHNEIDER

MOZART “Hai già vinta la causa … Vedrò mentr’io sospiro” from Le Nozze di FigaroADRIAN TIMPAU

LEONCAVALLO “Qual fiamma avea nel guardo … Stridono lassù” from PagliacciGABRIELL A REYES DE R AMÍREZ

DONIZET TI “Tran, tran, tran, tran … In guerra ed in amor” from L’Elisir d’AmoreGABRIELL A REYES DE R AMÍREZ

GER ARD SCHNEIDER

ADRIAN TIMPAU

VERDI “Dio, che nell’alma infondere”from Don CarloGER ARD SCHNEIDER

ADRIAN TIMPAU

PUCCINI “Tu che di gel sei cinta” from TurandotGABRIELL A REYES DE R AMÍREZ

TCHAIKOVSK Y “Ya vas lyublyu” (Yeletsky’s Aria) from The Queen of SpadesADRIAN TIMPAU

GOUNOD “Salut! demeure chaste et pure”from FaustGER ARD SCHNEIDER

MOZART “Là ci darem la mano” from Don GiovanniGABRIELL A REYES DE R AMÍREZ

ADRIAN TIMPAU

TCHAIKOVSK Y “Kuda, kuda, kuda vy udalilis” (Lenski’s Aria) from Eugene OneginGER ARD SCHNEIDER

FLOYD “Ain’t it a pretty night” from SusannahGABRIELL A REYES DE R AMÍREZ

WAGNER “O du, mein holder Abendstern”from TannhäuserADRIAN TIMPAU

PUCCINI “O soave fanciulla” from La BohèmeGABRIELL A REYES DE R AMÍREZ

GER ARD SCHNEIDER

THE ARTISTS

Mario ChangTENOR (Guatemala City, Guatemala)

UPCOMING Alfredo in La Traviata at Washington National Opera and Atlanta Opera, and Corrado in Verdi’s Il Corsaro in concert in Frankfurt.

MET APPEARANCES Arturo in Lucia di Lammermoor, Nemorino in L’Elisir d’Amore, the Italian Singer in Der Rosenkavalier, and the Fourth Esquire in Parsifal (debut, 2013).

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS He is a graduate of the Met’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program and a member of the ensemble at Oper Frankfurt, where his performances have included the title roles of Werther and Roberto Devereux, the Italian Singer in Capriccio and Der Rosenkavalier, the Duke in Rigoletto, Lenski in Eugene Onegin, Edgardo in Lucia di Lammermoor, Cassio in Otello, and Rodolfo in La Bohème. Other recent credits include Ismaele in Nabucco and Rodolfo at LA Opera, Edgardo at the Santa Fe Opera, and Alfredo at North Carolina Opera.

Joshua HopkinsBARITONE (Pembroke, Canada)

UPCOMING Figaro in Il Barbiere di Siviglia at the Glimmerglass Festival, Harry Bailey in Jake Heggie’s It’s a Wonderful Life at San Francisco Opera, Valentin in Faust at Washington National Opera, and Dr. Malatesta in Don Pasquale at Pittsburgh Opera.

MET APPEARANCES Mercutio in Roméo et Juliette, Schaunard in La Bohème, Cecil in Maria Stuarda, and Ping in Turandot (debut, 2009).

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS Recent performances include Guglielmo in Così fan tutte at Lyric Opera of Chicago, Figaro at the Norwegian National Opera, Dr. Falke in Die Fledermaus and Olivier in Capriccio at the Santa Fe Opera, the title role of Don Giovanni at Utah Opera, Papageno in Die Zauberflöte at the Canadian Opera Company, Harry Bailey in the world premiere of It’s a Wonderful Life at the Dallas Opera, and the Count in Le Nozze di Figaro at Washington National Opera.

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Latonia MooreSOPR ANO (Houston, Texas)

UPCOMING Serena in Porgy and Bess at Dutch National Opera and the title role of Tosca at Washington National Opera.

MET APPEARANCES The title role of Aida (debut, 2012) and Cio-Cio-San in Madama Butterfly.

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS She has sung Aida in Buenos Aires, Zurich, and Tokyo; at the Polish National Opera, English National Opera, Opera Australia, Pittsburgh Opera, Cincinnati Opera, Michigan Opera Theatre, San Diego Opera, and Dallas Opera; and in concert in Bergen, Norway, and at Ravinia Festival. Other recent credits include Tosca at Opera Australia and New York City Opera; Desdemona in Otello in Bergen; Fidelia in Puccini’s Edgar in Dortmund, Germany; Cio-Cio-San at San Diego Opera and in Hamburg; Liù in Turandot at Covent Garden; and Liù, Mimì in La Bohème, and Cio-Cio-San in Dresden.

Gabriella Reyes de RamírezSOPR ANO (Meriden, Connecticut)

UPCOMING The Priestess in Aida for her house debut, Nella in Gianni Schicchi, and the First Lady in The Magic Flute at the Met.

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS She is a member of the Met’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program and was a grand finalist in the 2017 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. Recent credits include the First Lady in excerpts of Die Zauberflöte with the Los Angeles Philharmonic; Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with the New Haven Symphony Orchestra; the Countess in Le Nozze di Figaro, the title role of Tobias Picker’s Emmeline, and the soprano soloist in Philip Glass’s Hydrogen Jukebox with the Boston University Opera Institute; and the Princess in Montsalvatge’s El Gato con Botas with OperaHub.

Dan SaundersPIANIST (New York, New York)

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS He joined the Met’s music staff in 1985 and has performed with many of the world’s leading singers, including Jessye Norman, Kiri Te Kanawa, Kathleen Battle, Marilyn Horne, Tatiana Troyanos, Isabel Leonard, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Sir Thomas Allen, Nathan Gunn, and Gerald Finley, among others. He has performed at Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, Paris’s Opéra Bastille, San Francisco Opera, London’s Wigmore Hall, and the White House, as well as at the Salzburg, Tanglewood, Ravinia, and Santa Fe Chamber Music Festivals. He has also been featured on Live from Lincoln Center, The Today Show, The Tonight Show, and The Late Show with David Letterman and can be heard on the Sony, Denon, and Newport Classics labels.

THE ARTISTS (CONTINUED)

Gerard SchneiderTENOR (Melbourne, Australia)

UPCOMING Mozart in Rimsky-Korsakov’s Mozart and Salieri and Ivan Likov in The Tsar’s Bride at the Bard SummerScape Festival; the First Guard in Die Zauberflöte, the Prince in Rusalka, and the Shepherd in Szymanowski’s King Roger in Frankfurt; and the title role of Faust at Opera Omaha.

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS During the 2018–19 season, he will become a member of the ensemble at Oper Frankfurt. Recent credits include Nicias in Thaïs at Minnesota Opera, Arturo in Bellini’s La Straniera at Washington Concert Opera, Prince Dimitri in Alfano’s Risurrezione with Wexford Festival Opera, Rossini’s Stabat Mater with North Carolina’s Chamber Orchestra of the Triangle, Boris in Kát'a Kabanová with Juilliard Opera, Romeo in Sutermeister’s Romeo und Julia in Frankfurt and Alzenau, the title role of Idomeneo at Ireland’s Kilkenny Arts Festival, and Osaka in Mascagni’s Iris at the Bard SummerScape Festival.

Adrian TimpauBARITONE (Nisporeni, Moldova)

UPCOMING Jim Larkens in La Fanciulla del West for his house debut and Moralès in Carmen at the Met.

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS He is a member of the Met’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program and a graduate of Opernhaus Zürich’s Opernstudio, where his roles included Schaunard in La Bohème and Le Dancaïre in Carmen. Other recent credits include Escamillo in Carmen at Opera Philadelphia and the Moldova National Opera, in Szczecin, Poland, and Thessaloniki, Greece, and in concert with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra; Vaughan Williams’s Dona Nobis Pacem at New York’s Saint Thomas Church; Eustachio in Donizetti’s L’Assedio di Calais at the Glimmerglass Festival; and Robert in Iolanta, the title role of Eugene Onegin, and Prince Yeletsky in The Queen of Spades at the Moldova National Opera.

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