Tenor Brian Cheney Performance June 10, 2006

Tenor Brian Cheney will perform a program including Richard Strauss and Vincenzo Bellini at Arium on June 10. Brian, a the protege of legendary tenor Jerry Hadley, is equally adept at classical opera and operetta, having performed Pucini and Mozart, as well as in the Rake's Progress, the Merry Widow and Pirates of Penzance.

Doors open at 6:30pm and tickets are $25 with advance reservations, $30 at the door. Light evening fare, wine and tea will be available prior to the concert.

Arium is New York's newest center for the arts, hosting classical music performances in a gallery setting.

The program:
I. Vincenzo Bellini (1801-1835)
Il fervido desiderio
Dolente immagine
Vaga luna

II. Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
SONGS OF TRAVEL
1. The Vagabond
2. Let Beauty Awake
3. The Roadside Fire
4. Youth and Love
5. In Dreams
6. The Infinite Shining Heavens
7. Whither Must I Wander?
8. Bright is the Ring of Words
9. I have trod the Upward and the Downward Slope

-Intermission-

III. Reynaldo Hahn (1874-1947)
D'un prison
L'huere exquise
Si mes vers avaint des ailles

IV. Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
Zueignung
Morgen
Cacilie

Official Website: http://www.ariumnyc.com