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 Frauenliebe 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.

Concerts are free, and donations are welcome, at the door, or online bit.ly/pasredding-donate

Doors open @ 7pm

Location: All Saints' Episcopal Church, 2150 Benton Drive, Redding, CA, 96003