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NDSU Opera
presents
ALL
A M ER ICA N
An American Songbook and Opera Concert
Reineke Fine Arts Courtyard

Friday, May 7, 2021
4:00 PM
THE TELEPHONE
Music and Libretto by Gian Carlo Menotti
Stage and Music Direction by Kelly W. Burns
Anne Voglewede Green, piano
Lucy Hannah Overbey

Ben Micah Nicolai
MUSICAL THEATER CONCERT

Stage and Music Direction by Karisa Templeton
Anne Voglewede Green, piano
Cassie Keogh, bass clarinet
Floyd Althoff
Luke Anderson
Seth Brandl
Emma Dodds
Natalie Harrison
Jessica Livdahl
Julie Ly
Emily Paulson
PROGRAM
The Telephone
Recitative: Oh! Just what I wanted.
Lucy’s Aria: Hello? Hello? Oh, Margaret, it’s you.
Recitative: That was Margaret.
Lucy’s Arioso: Hello? Hello? Oh, George, it’s you.
Ben’s Recitative and Arioso: Listen, Lucy, listen, now don’t you cry.
Duet: It all began on a Sunday when Jean and I went skating.
Finale: Hello? Hello? Where are you, my darling?
Musical Theater Concert

1. “Dream with Me” from Peter Pan....................................Natalie Harrison
Music and Lyrics by Leonard Bernstein
2. “The Miller’s Son” from A Little Night Music.....................Emily Paulson

Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
3. “Anything You Can Do” from Annie Get Your Gun.........Natalie Harrison
Floyd Althoff
Music and Lyrics by Irving Berlin
4. “Art is Calling For Me” from The Enchantress..................Jessica Livdahl

Music by Victor Herbert
Lyrics by Fred de Gresac and Harry B. Smith
5. “Soon It’s Gonna Rain” from The Fantasticks......................Emma Dodds

Luke Anderson
Music by Harvey Schmidt
Lyrics by Tom Jones
6. “New Words” from In the Beginning..............................................Julie Ly

Music and Lyrics by Maury Yeston
7. “My Defenses are Down” from Annie Get Your Gun.........Luke Anderson
Music and Lyrics by Irving Berlin
8. “Some Things Are Meant To Be” from Little Women....................Julie Ly

Jessica Livdahl
Music by Jason Howland
Lyrics by Mindi Dickstein
9. “She’s a Woman” from Kiss of the Spider Woman................Floyd Althoff
Music by John Kander
Lyrics by Fred Ebb
10. “Joey, Joey, Joey” from The Most Happy Fella.....................Seth Brandl
Music and Lyrics by Frank Loesser
11. “People Will Say We’re In Love” from Oklahoma!...........Emily Paulson

Seth Brandl
Music by Richard Rodgers
Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II
12. “Goodnight My Someone” from The Music Man...............Emma Dodds

Music and Lyrics by Meredith Wilson
13. “Dream With Me” from Peter Pan............................................Ensemble

Music and Lyrics by Leonard Bernstein
PERSONNEL
Live Streaming Kyle Vanderburg
Sound David Huber
Promotions Director Amanda Booher
Concert Facility Manager Margaret Latterell
SPECIAL THANKS
Ryan Scoble
Theatre NDSU
NDSU Voice-Choral Faculty
ARTISTIC TEAM
KELLY W. BURNS | Producer, Stage and Music
Director (The Telephone)
Lyric tenor Kelly W. Burns is an active performer
of opera, musical theater, recitals and concert works
throughout North America with musical organiza-
tions such as the Chautauqua Opera, Opera Roanoke,
Memphis Symphony Orchestra, Roanoke Symphony
Orchestra, and Opera Project Columbus. Kelly’s reper-
toire includes leading and supporting roles in operas and musicals such as Don
Giovanni, The Magic Flute, The Elixir of Love, Rigoletto, Sweeney Todd, and A
Little Night Music as well as tenor solos in Handel’s Messiah, Bach’s Magnificat
and Mass in B Minor, Mozart’s Requiem, and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9. As
music director and conductor, Kelly has led productions of Le nozze di Figaro,
Man of La Mancha, Hairspray, and Beauty and the Beast and has prepared cho-
ruses for The Pirates of Penzance and The Magic Flute. Kelly recently joined
the Challey School of Music faculty as assistant professor of voice. He serves as
Artistic Director of NDSU Opera and teaches voice lessons and lyric diction. He
is also co-founder of the Unity Series of Artists at NDSU.
KARISA TEMPLETON | Stage and Music

Director (Musical Theater Concert)
Soprano Karisa L. Templeton is assistant professor
of voice at North Dakota State University. An active
performer of opera and avid art song enthusiast, she
performs frequently in recital and concert. Karisa
enjoys programming lesser-known compositions from
historically underrepresented groups including women
and composers of color. She has sung with Opera on the
Avalon, The Princeton Opera Festival, New Voices Opera, Reimagining Opera
for Kids, and the Beijing Festival Chorus. Her operatic roles include Helena from
Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Cleopatra from Handel’s Giulio Cesare,
Donna Elvira from Mozart’s Don Giovanni, Sifare from Mozart’s Mitridate,
Queen from Martin’s The True Story of Cinderella, Dido from Purcell’s Dido and
Aeneas, and Laurie from Copland’s The Tender Land. Karisa received the BM in
Music Education with an emphasis in Voice and Choral Studies from Cedarville
University and an MM in Voice Performance & Pedagogy from Westminster
Choir College. She completed her doctoral coursework in music at the Indiana
University Jacobs School of Music.
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All performances in Beckwith Recital Hall and Festival Concert

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NDSU Opera

Reineke Fine Arts Courtyard

Lucy Hannah Overbey

MUSICAL THEATER CONCERT

Musical Theater Concert

2. “The Miller’s Son” from A Little Night Music.....................Emily Paulson

4. “Art is Calling For Me” from The Enchantress..................Jessica Livdahl

5. “Soon It’s Gonna Rain” from The Fantasticks......................Emma Dodds

6. “New Words” from In the Beginning..............................................Julie Ly

8. “Some Things Are Meant To Be” from Little Women....................Julie Ly

11. “People Will Say We’re In Love” from Oklahoma!...........Emily Paulson

12. “Goodnight My Someone” from The Music Man...............Emma Dodds

13. “Dream With Me” from Peter Pan............................................Ensemble

Sound David Huber

Promotions Director Amanda Booher

Concert Facility Manager Margaret Latterell

KARISA TEMPLETON | Stage and Music

All performances in Beckwith Recital Hall and Festival Concert

Events are subject to change.

Video streaming and recording

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