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La Scena Musicale Launches CORONA Serenades

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La Scena Musicale is mobilizing an international movement to deliver the joy of music with CORONA Serenades.

  • Free for front-line care workers and people with the coronavirus
  • Send a personalized video of your favourite song or aria performed by a trained singer
  • Send a message of joy in a challenging time and reach out to your loved ones with music you love
  • Contribute to the world of arts directly by supporting a singer

(See press release)

Our Artists & Repertoire:

We currently have a roster of 22 singers from eight countries. Our performers will offer the following selections.

Celebrity Singer & Spokesperson

Giorgia Fumanti, soprano (Italy)

Naomi Rogers, mezzo-soprano (UK)

Jonelle Sills, soprano (Canada)

  • Chi il bel sogno − Puccini
  • Mi chiamano Mimì − Puccini
  • Csardas − J. Strauss
  • Summertime − Gershwin
  • Widmung − Schumann
  • Over my head – spiritual
  • Facebook | Website

  • Order

Dominique Veilleux, Bass-Baritone (Canada)

  • Bellini : Vi ravviso, o luoghi ameni (La sonnambula)
  • Mozart : Madamina, il catalogo è questo (Don Giovanni); Se vuol ballare (Le nozze di Figaro)
  • Rossini : La calunnia è un venticello (Il barbiere di Siviglia)  
  • Schubert : An die Musik, Auf der Donau, Heidenröslein
  • Debussy : L’âme évaporée et souffrante
  • Website | Facebook

  • Order

Philip Kalmanovitch, Baritone (Canada)

  • Bizet: Votre toast je peux vous le rendre (Carmen), L’orage s’est calme (Les pêcheurs de perles)
  • Britten: Look! Through the port comes the moonshine astray (Billy Budd)
  • Heggie: Captain Ahab? I must speak with you (Moby Dick)
  • Korngold: Mein sehnen, mein Wahnen (Die tote Stadt)
  • Leoncavallo: Prologo (Pagliacci)
  • See complete liste here
  • Facebook | Website
  • ORDER

Bradley Christensen, Baritone (New-Zealand)

  • Sibilar gli’ angui d’Aletto (Rinaldo) – Handel
  • Der Vogelfänger bin ich ja (Die Zauberflöte) – Mozart
  • Rivolgete a lui lo sguardo (Cosi fan tutte) – Mozart
  • E fra quest’ ansie (Pagliacci) – Leoncavallo
  • Kogda by zhizn’ domashnim krugom (Eugene Onegin) – Tachaikovsky
  • Tickling a Trout (Albert Herring) – Britten
  • Lord, God of Abraham (Elijah) – Mendelssohn
  • Some enchanted evening (South Pacific) – Rogers and Hammerstein
  • Special requests encouraged! For a more extensive list, see website.

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Bruno Roy, Baritone (Canada)

  • Deh vieni alla finestra (accompanied)
  • Fin ch’han dal vino (accompanied)
  • Non piu andrai (accompanied, italian or english text by Joel Ivany)
  • Lieben Hassen Hoffen Zagen(acapella)
  • O vin dissipe la tristesse (unaccompanied) – need to consider and finalize choice of a french aria
  • À la claire fontaine (traditional arr. by Xavier Gervais-Dumont, accompanied)
  • Sure on This Shining Night – Barber (accompanied)
  • 2 schubert lieds accompanied: Ständchen, Die Taubenpost
  • Website

  • Order

 

Katie Miller, mezzo-soprano (Canada)

  • Voi che sapete, Le nozze di Figaro, Mozart
  • Faites-lui mes aveux, Faust, Gounod
  • 7 canciones populares, de Falla (7 separate songs within this set)
  • Canciones Clasicas Vol. 1, Obradors (7 separate songs within this set)
  • Popular songs including Fly me to the moon, All of me, When I fall in love
  • Mariachi (Mexico) and other popular Latin American Hits
  • Contemporary Christian Worship Songs
  • See complete list
  • Facebook
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Wallis Giunta, mezzo-soprano (Canada)

Valérie Poisson, soprano (Canada)

  • La Vie en rose (Édith Piaf)
  • Pour que tu m’aimes encore (Céline Dion)
  • Quando m’en vo (La bohème, Puccini)
  • Vilja, (La veuve joyeuse, Lehàr)
  • L’amour est oiseau rebelle (Carmen,  Bizet)
  • Ch’il bel sogno (La rondine, Puccini)
  • Full list (see PDF)
  • website
  • visionner

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Christopher Dunham, baritone (Canada)

  • Votre Toast (Toreador Song, Carmen, Bizet)
  • Largo al factotum (Barber of Seville, Rossini)
  • If ever I would leave you
  • Di Provenza il mar il suol (La Traviata, Verdi)
  • Deh vieni alla finestra (Don Giovanni, Mozart) (watch)
  • Avant de quitter ces lieux
  • website
  • biography

  • ORDER


Photo: Caroline Wyatt

Anne-Marine Suire, soprano (France)
avec Emmanuel Christien, piano

Anne Marie Sheridan, mezzo-soprano (Ireland)

Kara Covey, soprano (USA)

  • Stridono lassù (Pagliacci, Leoncavallo) (watch)
  • Song to the Moon (Rusalka, Dvořák)
  • Mi chiamano Mimì (La Bohème, Puccini)
  • Quando m’en vo (La Bohème, Puccini)
  • Crudele Non Mi dir (Don Giovanni, Mozart) (watch)
  • Ebben, ne andrò lontana (La Wally, Catalani)
  • Depuis le jour (Louise, Charpentier)
  • Pop: anything by Adele, At Last by Etta James, Killing me softly, House of the Rising Sun, Hallelujah
  • website | biography

  • ORDER

Rose Naggar-Tremblay, mezzo-soprano (Canada)

  • Healing – III Movement (Éric Champagne and Rose Naggar-Tremblay)
  • Paris en bouteille (Rose Naggar-Tremblay) (watch)
  • Amour voyageur (Rose Naggar-Tremblay)
  • Va! Laisse couler mes larmes (Werther, Massenet)
  • website/biography

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Yara Zeitoun, soprano (Lebanon)

  • O mio babbino caro (Gianni Schicchi, Puccini)
  • Quando m’en vo (La Boheme, Puccini)
  • Chi il bel sogno di Doretta (La Rondine, Puccini)
  • Regnava nel silenzio (Lucia di Lammermoor, Donizetti)
  • La vie en rose (Piaf)
  • + 9 others from opera, operetta and Arab (see PDF)
  • website

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Nils Brown, tenor (Canada)

  • Neopolitan Songs (Torna Sorrento, Con te partiro, O belli occhi di fata, O sole mio, Granada, Marechiare, Mamma! (watch), Rondine al nido, etc.)
  • Scottish songs by Robert Burns (Ae fond Kiss, original version, A red red Rose, For a that and A’ That, etc)
  • Irish (Last Rose of Summer, Raglan Road, The Minstrel Boy)
  • Popular (Wild is the Wind)
  • website

  • ORDER

Nadine Benjamin, soprano (England)

  • Summertime (Porgy & Bess, Gershwin)
  • Ave Maria (Schubert)
  • Ave Maria (Otello, Verdi)
  • Vissi D’arte (Tosca, Puccini) (watch)
  • Quando M’en Vo (La Bohème, Puccini)
  • American Songs from my Emergence album
  • Honey and Rue (Previn)
  • Four Last Songs (Strauss)
  • website | biography

  • ORDER

Rebecca Louise Dale, mezzo-soprano (England)

  • I’ve Got Rhythm (George and Ira Gershwin)
  • Cry Me a River (Arthur Hamilton)
  • Fly Me To The Moon (Bart Howard)
  • Moon River (Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Henry Mancini and Johnny Mercer)
  • Que Sera, Sera (The Man Who Knew Too Much, Jay Livingston and Ray Evans)
  • More selections (see PDF)
  • Watch
  • website/biography

  • ORDER

Erica Lee Martin, singer (Canada)

  • Les Berceaux (Fauré)
  • Ständchen (Schubert)
  • Près des ramparts de Seville (Carmen, Bizet)
  • So in Love (Porter)
  • Blue (Joni Mitchell)
  • Case of You (Joni Mitchell)
  • Alfie (Bacharach)
  • website/biography

  • ORDER

Kathryn Frady, soprano (Britain, USA)

  • Vissi D’arte (Tosca, Puccini) (watch)
  • Senza mamma (Suor Angelica, Puccini)
  • Un bel di from (Madama Butterfly, Puccini)
  • Donde lieta from (La Boheme, Puccini)
  • Ah fors’e lui…sempre libera (La Traviata, Verdi) (watch)
  • Stridono Lassu (I Pagliacci, Leoncavallo) (watch)
  • The Jewel Song (Faust, Gounod)
  • Tu che di gel (Turandot, Puccini)
  • website/biography

  • ORDER

Charles Brocchiero, baritone (Canada)

  • Largo al factotum (Barber of Seville, Rossini)
  • Deh vieni alla finestra (Don Giovanni, Mozart)
  • La tourtiere
  • Votre Toast (Toreador Song)

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Adrian RodriguezAdrian Rodriquez, tenor (listen), (Canada, Venezuela)

  • Somewhere over the rainbow
  • Parla piu piano
  • Besame mucho
  • Caruso
  • website

  • ORDER

Wah Keung Chan, tenor (Canada)

  • Morgen (Richard Strauss) (Listen) (Text)
  • Che gelida manina, (La Bohème, Puccini) (Listen) (from Interview)
  • Ich atmet’ einen linden Duft (from Rückert Lieder, Mahler) (Listen) (Text)
  • Love Me Tender (Vera Matson & Elvis Presley)
  • La fleur que tu m’avais jetée, (Carmen, Bizet) (Listen)
  • Nessun dorma (Turandot, Puccini)

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Dino Spaziani, singer (Canada)

  • Je t’aimais, je t’aime et je t’aimerais (Francis Cabrel)
  • You are so beautiful (Joe Cocker) (Listen)

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Chantal Dionne, soprano (Canada)

  • Vissi d’arte (Tosca, Puccini)
  • O mio babbino Caro, (Gianni Schicchi, Puccini)
  • Si mi chiamano Mimi, (La Bohème, Puccini) (Listen)
  • Song to the moon (Dvorak)
  • Jardin d’amour (Vuillermoz)
  • Phidylé (Duparc)
  • L’invitation au voyage (Duparc)  (Watch/Listen)
  • When I have sung my songs to you (Charles)
  • website/biography

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Marie-Annick Béliveau, mezzo-soprano (Canada)

    • Mon coeur s’ouvre à ta voix – Saint-Saëns
    • If music be the food of love – Purcell
    • Chanson d’amour – Fauré
    • Intorno all’ido mio – Cesti
    • Wie Melodien zieht es mir – Brahms
    • Rossignol de mes amours – Lopez
    • My Funny Valentine (Listen)
    • website

    • ORDER

Alan Briones, baritone (USA) (young artist)

  • Volver
  • El dia que me quieras
  • Sus ojos se cerraron
  • Por una cabeza
  • Uno
  • Alfonsina y el Mar  (Not a tango, but Argentinean Song)
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About CORONA Serenades

  • personalized video for the recipient
  • trained singers
  • full arias or songs sung a cappella or self accompanied (2 – 5 mins)
  • styles from opera, art song, broadway, jazz to pop
  • free for front-line health workers or those who have tested positive for the coronavirus
  • great for anniversaries and other special occasions or just to reach out to friends and family.
  • weekly compilation CORONA Serenades Concert
  • based on our successful Singing Valentines service
  • donations help support out-of-work artists and La Scena Musicale, a registered charity

Cost:

  • Donations requested: suggested amount $30-$70 at http://bit.ly/CSDonVar
  • FREE Option: The service is free for recipients who are infected by the virus and for front-line health care workers. Donations and tips are welcome.
  • All donations will be gratefully acknowledged with a tax receipt (La Scene Musicale is a registered charity in Canada, no. 141996579RP0001)

To Order:

  • For front-line workers and coronavirus patients (free), fill out the order form/questionnaire. You will be asked to choose the type of music for the recipient, and a singer will be chosen by us.
  • For Others, there is a requested donation of $30-$70. Make your donation via PayPal or credit card using the following link http://bit.ly/CSDonVarR and you will be redirected to the questionnaire. Note, you can choose the singer and the song.
  • A private link to the video will be emailed to the client and the recipient.
  • Information: [email protected]

CORONA Serenade Musicians Relief Fund

  • Donations to CORONA Serenade will go to the CORONA Serenade Musicians Relief Fund (60%) and La Scene Musicale (40%), a registered charity. The fund will distribute gifts as follows:
  • 40% of a donation for a serenade will be given to the singer
  • 20% of a donation will be added to the pool
  • At the end of every month, the pool will be distributed to participating singers in need

CORONA Serenades Concerts

    • Tete a Tete with Anne-Marine Suire (June 7): Rewatch: Facebook | YouTube
    • Special: Nurses  (May 17): Rewatch: YouTube
    • Special: Mother’s Day  (May 10): Rewatch: YouTube
    • Concert Week 2 – Divas Spotlight  (May 3): Rewatch: YouTube
    • Concert Week 1  (April 26): Rewatch: YouTube

How to be a CORONA Serenade Singer

  • Please send a CV to [email protected]. Participating singers can opt to donate their share of donations to the pool. The following are required:
  • A photo (minimum 700 x 350 pixels)
  • List of available repertoire (solo or self-accompanied)
  • Smartphone with video capability
  • Internet to upload your video to our server
  • Link to a video or audio sample
  • Optional: link to your website and social media
  • Time to make five to 10 video serenades a day
  • A PayPal account
  • For promotional purposes, it is suggested that participating singers make and share a short video on their social media platform of preference (Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, etc.) that explains the initiative and provides the website address mySCENA.org. And perhaps also offers a little “teaser”!

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