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This Year’s Singing Valentines: 12th Edition includes Serenades and Free Streaming Concert
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
La Scena Musicale presents Singing Valentines!
A Memorable Romantic Experience
Montreal, QC, Feb. 11, 2020 – This Valentine’s season, for the cost of a bouquet of flowers, offer a unique valentine! For the tenth year, La Scena Musicale has been providing individuals an opportunity to deliver a unique gift to their loved ones regardless of their location.
Six professionally trained singers offer their time on Valentines Day, to help raise funds for La Scena Musicale and to give a special gift through song. “It has been a few years since I received such a wonderful gift from my husband… Hearing Deh vieni alla finestra [from Don Giovanni]was so much nicer than a card… Last month it made me cry in a very joyous way when the baritone [Gino Quilico] called me offering me the song my husband had chosen,” stated Wendy Marston regarding her Singing Valentine experience in 2019.
This year’s singers, including reknown baritone Gino Quillico, tenor Adrian Rodriguez, tenor Wah Keung Chan, soprano Chantal Dionne, mezzo-soprano Marie-Annick Béliveau and singer Dino Spaziani, have a repertoire of 35 selections between them. Ranging from popular songs like Charlie Chaplin’s Smile, My Funny Valentine by Rodgers & Hart and Love Me Tender by Matson & Presley to memorable operatic arias such as Mozart’s, Deh vieni a la finestra (Don Giovanni), Pucinni’s Che gelida manina (La Bohème) and Saint-Saens’ Mon coeur s’ouvre à ta voix (Samson et Dalila).
For a $30-$70 donation, $75-$100 for our celebrity singer, you can provide your loved one with the Romantic experience of a lifetime. A repeat customer of our Singing Valentines who has always ordered a song for her mother placed her order last week and wrote: “Maestro Quilico was so nice and compassionate with her that she often talks of this Valentine Gift as memorable…”
La Scena Musicale is a charitable not for profit organization based in Montreal, which promotes classical music and the arts through the written word. It publishes La Scena Musicale seven times per year and is distributed in Montreal, Ottawa and Toronto. Music schools in the Montreal area also receive free copies for their students. For more information regarding our Singing Valentines, and the repertoire of our singers visit https://myscena.org/singing-valentines-2020/ .
Media inquiries: 514-948-2520 ext. 3, [email protected]
- 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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Singing Valentines Leave a Lasting Impression (La Scena Musicale, April/May 2019)
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