On Friday, August 11, 2023, 7:30 p.m. (doors open at 7:00 p.m.) at Old City Hall in downtown Redding, the Waterbury Aria Group will present Scenes of Passion, a program of songs and arias of great emotion.

Mezzo soprano Gwen Rooker will sing Robert Schumann's song cycle Frauen-Liebe und Leben, which takes us from the first joy of love and marriage to the grief of loss. 

In the poetry of Robert Louis Stevenson set to music in selections from Vaughan Williams' Songs of Travel, sung by baritone Henry Patterson, we feel the awakening of beauty itself and gaze in awe at the infinite shining heavens. 

In aria selections from operas of Mozart, Verdi and Puccini, sung by Patterson, Rooker and soprano Rebeca Abinante, we run the gamut from love to rejection and from humor to jealousy and deceit.  

Robert Waterbury is Artistic Director, with Dr. Elizabeth Waterbury, Coach/Accompanist.
Covid protocol: Masks are encouraged but not required.