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Shrewsbury Chorale Events
Cape and Opera Glasses Optional...
June 3, 2006 at 8 PM
Luther Memorial Church
818 Tinton Avenue
Tinton Falls NJ
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We hopr you joined us for an evening of favorite opera scenes, choruses, duets and arias.


A reception was held immediately following the concert.

Amy Cofield soprano soloist
Arthur Shen tenor soloist

Program Order
Act I

Bell Chorus (Pagliacci)

Chorus of  peasant girls (Eugene Onegin)

Un bel di (Madama Butterfly)    Ms. Cofield

Humming Chorus (Madama Butterfly)

Dido’s Lament and Chorus (Dido and Aeneas)

La Donna e mobile (Rigoletto)    Mr. Shen

Priest’s Chorus (Die Zauberflote)

Chorus of the Hebrew slaves (Nabucco)

Act II

Rataplan (La forza del festino)    Ms. Cofield

Che gelina manina (La Boheme)    Mr. Shen

O soave fanciulla (La Boheme)    Ms. Cofield and Mr. Shen

Anvil Chorus (Il trovatore)

Regnava nel silencio (Luccia di Lammermoor)    Ms. Cofield

Chorus of the wedding guests (Luccia di Lammermoor)    Mr. Shen
    
Nessun Dorma (Turandot)    Mr. Shen

Brindisi (La Traviatta)     Ms. Cofield and Mr. Shen

Composers

Puccini
Humming Chorus
and Un bel di from
Madame Butterfly
Nessun Dorma
from Turandot
Che gelina manina
and
O soave fanciulla 
from
La Boheme




Donizetti
Chorus of Wedding Guests
and
Regnava nel silencio
from
Lucia Di Lammermoor

Verdi
Brindisi
from
La Traviata

Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves
from Nabucco
Rataplan from
La forza del destino
Anvil Chorus
from Il trovatore

La Donna e mobile from Rigoletto



Purcell
Dido's Lament and
Final Chorus from
Dido and Aeneas

Mozart 
Priest's Chorus from 
Die Zauberflote

Leoncavallo
Bell Chorus from
I Pagliacci

Rimsky-Korsakov
Chorus of peasant girls
from
Eugene Onegin
Amy Cofield
Amy Cofield
Praised for her beautiful singing, wonderful artistry and beauty of interpretation, Amy Cofield has performed all across the United States as well as in France, Spain, Portugal, England, Austria, Santo Domingo, Taiwan and Guam.

Ms. Cofield's operatic roles performed include Musetta in La Boheme and Pamina in The Magic Flute with Knoxville Opera, Gilda in Rigoletto with Wildwood Opera, Gilda in Rigoletto, Norina in Don Pasquale and Violetta in La Traviata with Lyric Opera of San Antonio, Konstanze in Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail and
Violetta in La Traviata with Teatro Lirico D'Europa, Musetta in La Boheme with American Opera Theater in Taiwan and New York, Mimi  in La Boheme with Opera!Lenawee in Michigan,  Cunegonde in Candide and Susannah in Floyd's Susannah with Fort Worth Opera, and Berta in Il Bariere di Siviglia with Houston Grand Opera where she also served as cover for Violetta in Verdi's La Traviata.


Ms. Cofield maintains a busy concert schedule as well.  Recent engagements included Handel's Messiah and Orff's Carmina Burana, as well as the role of Julie Jordan in Carousel with the Annapolis Chamber Orchestra and Chorale, Mendelssohn's Elijah and Rutter's Requiem with the Southern Nevada Musical Arts Society, Brahms' German Requiem with the Elkhart Symphony and Ravel's Sheherazade with the Garden State Philharmonic.  She also recently performed the soprano solos in Mozart's Requiem and in Rutter's Mass of the Children at Carnegie Hall.
Arthur Shen
arthur shen
Career highlights have included Rodolfo in LA BOHÈME with Dicapo Opera Theatre; the Duke in RIGOLETTO, Rodolfo in LA BOHÈME, and the title role in LES CONTES D’HOFFMANN (Venetian Scene) with Italy’s Chiari International Institute of Vocal Arts; Ruggero in LA RONDINE and Luigi in IL TABARRO at the Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts; Pinkerton in MADAMA BUTTERFLY and the title role in FAUST (scenes) at Mannes College; and the Duke in RIGOLETTO at the Smithtown Performing Arts Center. Concert highlights have included Iseppo in LA GIOCONDA and Delil in GIOVANNA D’ARCO with the Collegiate Chorale; Roméo in ROMÉO ET JULIETTE (scenes) at Mannes College; the VERDI REQUIEM with the Collegiate Chorale and the Choir of Saint Mary in Stamford, Connecticut; the MOZART REQUIEM with the Garden State Philharmonic and the Choir of Saint Mary; Rossini’s STABAT MATER and Handel’s MESSIAH with the Choir of Saint Mary; Mozart’s CORONATION MASS and Handel’s CORONATION ANTHEM with New Jersey’s Shrewsbury Chorale; Bach’s MAGNIFICAT and Handel’s MESSIAH with the Garden State Philharmonic; and Beethoven’s NINTH SYMPHONY with the SUNY Purchase Philharmonic. Mr. Shen is a winner of the Richard F. Gold Career Grant for 1999, and a scholarship recipient of both the Tanglewood Institute and the Mannes College of Music. He currently resides in New York, and is a student of Mignon Dunn.