The Nutcracker Suite with Two Pianos
Featuring Cheong Yew Choong and Wong Chee Yean
Amahl and the Night Visitors
OPERA IN ONE ACT
Music and libretto by
Gian-Carlo Menotti
7 & 8 December, 2014
Photo credits to Wong Horngyih
Program
FIRST HALF: THE NUTCRACKER SUITE featuring Cheong Yew Choong and Wong Chee Yean
Ernesto Lecuono: Malagueña from Suite Andalucia, arr. Grace Helen Nash
Tchaikovsky: Nutcracker Suite, arr. Nicholas Economou
I. Miniature Overture
II. Danses caractéristiques
a. Marche
b. Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy
c. Russian Dance (Trepak)
d. Arabian Dance
e. Chinese Dance
f. Reed-Flutes
III. Waltz of the Flowers
SECOND HALF: AMAHL & THE NIGHT VISITORS
CAST
Mother – Ang Mei Foong
Amahl – Jarrod Lee (December 6, 3PM and December 7, 8PM), Yau Hao Ping (December 6, 8PM), Joshua Cheah(December 7, 3PM)
King Kaspar – Andrew Sanjay George
King Balthazar – Bryan Chong
King Melchior – Adam Oakley
Page – Aldwin Lee
Piano – Chong Jern Yi, Yong Sue Yi
Shepherds and villagers.