Arias from the Classical and bel canto periods are mixed with American songbook favorites and gospel music in a recital featuring tenor Travon D. Walker and baritone Sankara Harouna. Travon will also be heard in Poulenc’s extraordinary song-cycle Tel jour telle nuit and Sankara will be heard one of the great love arias in all of opera featured in Tchaikovsky’s Queen of Spades. They will be joined by pianist collaborator Michael Banwarth.
Tenor Travon D. Walker, Baritone Sankara Harouna, and Pianist Michael Banwarth
Playlist
“Se il tuo duo” from Idomeneo, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Travon D. Walker, tenor; Michael Banwarth, piano
“Cruda, funesta smania” from Lucia di Lammermoor, by Gaetano Donizetti
Sankara Harouna, baritone; Michael Banwarth, piano
Tel jour telle nuit, by Francis Poulenc
Travon D. Walker, tenor; Michael Banwarth, piano
Prince Yeletsky’s Aria from The Queen of Spades, by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Sankara Harouna, baritone; Michael Banwarth, piano
“Annorstädes Vals”, by Dag Wirén
Sankara Harouna, baritone; Michael Banwarth, piano
“What Kind of Fool Am I?”, by Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley
Sankara Harouna, baritone; Michael Banwarth, piano
“Skylark”, by Hoagy Carmichael
Travon D. Walker, tenor; Michael Banwarth, piano
“Ride On, King Jesus”, Traditional
Sankara Harouna, baritone; Michael Banwarth, piano
Worth Fighting For, by Brian Courtney Wilson
Sankara Harouna, baritone; Michael Banwarth, piano