THE QUEEN OF OPERA

Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848)

Text: Leopoldo Tarantini 
"The Boatman" 

Text: Giovanni Antonio Luigi Redaelli 
"Love and Death" 

Text: Folk Song 
"The Spindle" 

Text: Unknown Author
"I Want to Build a House" 

Vincenzo Bellini (1801-1835)

Text: Unknown Author 
"Painful Image of My Daughter" 

Text: Pietro Metastasio 
"For Pity, Beautiful Idol of Mine" 

Text: Ippolito Pindemonte 
"Melancholy, Gentle Nymph" 

Text: Unknown Author 
"The Abandonment" 

Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868)

Text: Francesco Maria Piave 
"The Venetian Regatta" 

No. 1 "Anzoleta Before the Regatta" 
No. 2 "Anzoleta as the Regatta Passes" 

Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)

Text: Dmitri Merezhkovsky 
"Christ is Risen" Op. 26 No. 6 

Text: Aleksei Apuhtin 
"Oh, do not grieve..." Op. 14 No. 8 

Text: Ivan Bunin 
"The Night's Sorrow" Op. 26 No. 12 

Text: Aleksei Plestcheyev 
"I Fell in Love with My Sadness" Op. 8 No. 6 

Text: Fyodor Tyutchev 
"Spring Waters" Op. 14 No. 11 

Pyotr Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)

Text: Alexander Strugovshchikov 
"Do Not Ask" Op. 57 No. 3 

Text: Dmitri Merezhkovsky 
"Death" Op. 57 No. 5