Soprano Dorothy Baldacchino is giving a performance of fresh, sparkling songs and arias during a fundraising event for the St Francis of Assisi church in Valletta.
Her repertoire includes the endearing The Last Rose of Summer, Gabriel Fauré’s Chanson d’Amour and Jules Massenet’s Nuit d’Espagne.
The programme continues with Franz Schubert’s Du Bist Die Ruh and two arias by Edward Grieg, Solvejgs Lied, Op. 23, No.1 and Ich Liebe Dich.Baldacchino will also sing the Spanish aria El Majo Discrete by Enrique Granados and Leonard Bernstein’s Piccola Serenata.
Baldacchino will be accompanied by pianist Irina Fedcenko-Carbonaro and clarinettist Kevin Tonna, who will perform Johannes Brahms’s Sonata in F major, Op. 120, No 2, 1st & 2nd Movement and Paul Hindemith’s Sonata 3rd & 4th Movement.
Today’s lunchtime concert at the oratory of the Franciscan church starts at 12.30pm. Tickets can be obtained from the venue 30 minutes before the concert starts. For more details, call 7968 0952 or send an e-mail to baroccomalta@gmail.com.