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We are also available to deliver a song over the phone for birthdays, mother’s day and other special occasions.
Update: This Year’s Singing Valentines 2024: 14th Edition includes a roster of 16 singers.
Thank you to all those who donated for Singing Valentines 2021 and to the artists. We are still open to special requests for personalized serenades for other occasions (birthdays and Mother’s Day). Also, you can still view the Singing Valentines Concert on YouTube by clicking on the image below.
La Scena Musicale Presents Singing Valentines 2021!
This Valentine’s season, Say it with a Song!
For a $30-$100 donation, you can provide your loved one with the Romantic experience of a lifetime with a valentine serenade. On February 8-14, trained singers will send the perfect Valentine’s Day gift, a personal serenade of their favourite long song (by telephone, zoom or recorded video) to your amour (friend, husband, wife, parents, grand-parents, sister, brother or children), all in your name!
To Order:
- Online: make your donation via PayPal using the following link and then you would be redirected to the Order Form for the details (name of valentine, contact info, singer, song, date and time needed): suggested amount $30-$100: http://bit.ly/SVDonVar
Our performers will be offering you the following love songs:
Raphaelle Paquette, soprano (Canada)
- Michel Legrand: Les moulins de mon cœur – Film l’Affaire Thomas Crown
- Édith Piaf: Hymne à l’amour
- Édith Piaf: La vie en rose
- Gershwin: I got rhythm
- I. Berlin: Cheek to cheek – Film Le danseur du dessus
- Cole Porter: C’est magnifique – Comédie musicale Can-Can
- C. Chaplin: Smile – Film Les temps modernes
- Charles Trenet: La mer
- Jacobs Jacobs: Bei mir bist du Schöne
- W. Donaldson: Yes sir that’s my baby
- Dalida: Le temps des fleurs
- Alys Robi: Tico tico
- website | Facebook
Marc-Antoine D’Aragon, Baritone (Canada)
Phone and Zoom only
- La vie en rose
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L’hymne a l’amour
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Une chance qu’on s’a
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For me, formidable
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Some enchanted evening
- Website | Facebook
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Don Adriano, tenor (Canada): SOLD OUT
My Funny ValentineSomewhere over the rainbowParla piu pianoBesame muchoCarusoNature Boy- Listen
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Wah Keung Chan, tenor (Canada):
- Morgen (Richard Strauss) (Listen) (Text)
- Che gelida manina, (La Bohème, Puccini) (Listen) (from Interview)
- My Funny Valentine (Rodgers & Hart) (Listen) (Text)
- 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)
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Dominique Veilleux, Bass-Baritone (Canada)
Video only
- 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
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Chantal Dionne, soprano (Canada):
Phone and Zoom only
- Vissi d’arte, Tosca (Puccini)
- O mio Babbino Caro, Gianni Schicchi (Puccini)
- Si mi chiamano Mimi, La Boheme (Puccini) (Listen)
- Song of 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
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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 | watch
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
Catherine St-Arnaud, soprano (Canada)
Available Feb. 14 (all day)
- Deh vieni non tardar
- Quando m’en vo
- Youkali
- La vie en rose
- Les chemins de l’amour
- Profitons bien de la jeunesse
- O mio babbino Caro (Puccini: Gianni Schicchi)
- Hymne à l’amour
- Violons (Poulenc)
- website | Facebook | YouTube (watch)
Marie-Annick Béliveau, mezzo-soprano (Canada):
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
- ORDER
Marie-Andrée Mathieu, mezzo-soprano (Canada)
- Parlez-moi d’amour (chanson)
- Petite fleur (jazz)
- Jardin d’hiver (brésilien)
- Les feuilles mortes (chanson)
- J’en ai rêvé (comédie musicale, “Once Upon a Dream”, La belle au bois dormant)
- Les parapluies de Cherbourg (chanson, comédie musicale)
- L’hymne à l’amour (chanson)
- Cent mille chansons (chanson)
- Poulenc: Les chemins de l’amour (mélodie)
- Website | Facebook
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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
Erica Lee Martin, singer (Canada)
No orders after 3 PM EST (Feb. 14)
- 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
Marc-André Gautier, violin (Canada)
- Le voici : Hymne à l’amour
- Can’t help falling in love with you
- What a wonderful world
- Edelweiss
- Smile
- Website | Facebook
- ORDER
Please reserve in advance, as spots for this incredible offer are limited. Offer your special-someone the joy of song! Valentines can be sent in Canada and the US by telephone or anywhere in the world by personalized video!
To Order:
To book a song and singer for February 8 to 14th, please use one of the following methods:
- Online: make your donation via PayPal using the following link and then you would be redirected to the Order Form for the details (name of valentine, contact info, singer, song, date and time needed): suggested amount $30-$100: http://bit.ly/SVDonVar
- Phone: 514-948-2520 x3
- Email: [email protected]
All donations will benefit La Scena Musicale (50% will go to the singer) and will be gratefully acknowledged with a tax receipt.
Media:
- The idea behind the Singing Valentines: Listen to Wah Keung Chan’s interview with Stan Asher (Feb. 12, 2011).
- Interview with Stan Asher (Feb. 8, 2014).
- Interview with Mike Finnerty, CBC Daybreak, Feb. 12, 2015 (includes excerpt of Che gelida manina)
- Interview with Barry Morgan, CJAD, Feb. 13, 2015 (includes excerpt of Che gelida manina)
- Interview with Stan Asher (Feb. 6, 2016).
- Feedback on Singing Valentines 2017 (in French)
- Sing It! A Moving Eighth Edition of the Singing Valentines, (La Scena Musicale, April/May 2018)
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