Sag Harbor Song Festival 2025

Friday, September 19 at 6:30pm

Saturday, September 20 at 6:30pm

Sunday, September 21 at 12pm

We are thrilled to announce the six opera stars who will perform at Sag Harbor Song Festival 2025, presented in collaboration with The Church, in Sag Harbor.

Each singer is a musician of great talent and accomplishment. Together, they will present a program of opera, musical theater, songs and lieder, in three concerts on successive days in late September.  In doing so they follow in the footsteps of the immensely successful Sag Harbor Song Festivals in 2022, 2023 and 2024.

The 2025 Festival will again be lead by two extraordinary directors: Artistic Director Brad Woolbright and Music Director Robert Tweten. Details of the individual concert programming will be available in late June.

  Our 2025 Talent

Amber Norelai
Soprano

Susanna Phillips
Soprano

Cecelia Hall
Mezzo-soprano

David Portillo
Tenor

Darren Lekeith Drone
Baritone

Le Bu
Bass-Baritone

Brad Woolbright
Artistic Director

Robert Tweten
Music Director

Musical Program

  • Si può? (from Pagliacci) | Leoncavallo

    — Darren Lekeith Drone, baritone

    Cara speme (from Giulio Cesare) | Handel

    — Cecelia Hall, mezzo-soprano

    Parigi, o cara (from La Traviata) | Verdi

    — Susanna Phillips, soprano & David Portillo, tenor

    Four Serious Songs Op. 121 | Brahms
    I. Denn es gehet dem Menschen

    II. Ich wandte mich
    III. O Tod, wie bitter bist du
    IV. Wenn ich mit Menschen und mit Engelszungen redete

    — Le Bu, bass-baritone

    Chants d’Auvergne | Canteloube
    I. Baïlèro                               
    II. Lo fiolairé         
    III. Brezairola                          
    IV. L’aïo dè rotso

    — Amber Norelai, soprano

    Four Lieder, Op. 12/13 | Clara Schumann
    I. Liebst du um Schönheit                               
    II. Warum willst du and’re fragen         
    III. Ich stand in dunklen Träumen                          
    IV. Liebeszauber

    — Cecelia Hall

    Ave Maria (from Otello) | Verdi

    — Susanna Phillips

    Di Provenza il mar, il suol (from La Traviata) | Verdi

    — Darren Lekeith Drone

    Quando m’en vo (from La bohème) | Puccini

    — Amber Norelai

    Soave sia il vento (from Così fan tutte) | Mozart

     — Susanna Phillips, Cecelia Hall & Le Bu  

    I. Júrame (from Spanish Tango) | Maria Grever
    II. Bella enamorada (from El último romántico) | R. Soutullo y J. Vert
    III. No puede ser (from La Taberna del Puerto) | Pablo Sorozábal

    — David Portillo

    The Champagne Song (from Die Fledermaus) | Johann Strauss

    — Amber Norelai, Susanna Phillips, Cecelia Hall, David Portillo, Darren Lekeith Drone & Le Bu

  • Where’er you walk (from Semele) | Handel

    — David Portillo, tenor

    Aprite un po’ quegli occhi (from Le Nozze di Figaro) | Mozart

    — Le Bu, bass-baritone

    Parto, parto ( from La Clemenza di Tito) | Mozart

    — Cecelia Hall, mezzo-soprano

    Hermit Songs | Samuel Barber
    I. At St. Patrick’s Purgatory
    II. Church Bell at Night
    III. St. Ita’s Vision
    IV. The Heavenly Banquet
    V. The Crucifixion
    VI. Sea-Snatch
    VII. Promiscuity
    VIII. The Monk and his Cat
    IX. The Praises of God
    X. The Desire for Hermitage

    — Susanna Phillips, soprano

    The Bell Song (from Lakmé) | Delibes

    — Amber Norelai, soprano

    Suoni la tromba (from I Puritani) | Bellini

    — Darren Lekeith Drone, baritone & Le Bu

    Pst, pst, Nannetta (from Falstaff) | Verdi

    — Amber Norelai & David Portillo

    Vecchia zimarra, senti (from La bohème) | Puccini

    — Le Bu

    Am I In Your Light? (from Doctor Atomic) | John Adams

    — Cecelia Hall      

    Canciones Clásicas Españolas | F. Obradors
    I. Al Amor
    II. Del cabello más sutil
    III. Chiquitita la novia

    — David Portillo

    Me llaman la primorosa (from El Barbero de Sevilla) | M. Nieto y G. Giménez

    — Amber Norelai

    I. A Red Headed Woman (from Porgy and Bess) | Gershwin
    II. A Woman is a Sometime Thing
    III. I Got Plenty o’ Nuttin’

    — Darren Lekeith Drone

    Speak Low (from One Touch of Venus) | Kurt Weill

    — Cecelia Hall

    Six Songs from “Do You Sing, Mr. Twain?” | Gordon Myers

    — Susanna Phillips

    Sure On This Shining Night | Morten Lauridsen

    Amber Norelai, Susanna Phillips, Cecelia Hall, David Portillo, Darren Lekeith Drone & Le Bu

  • De España Vengo (from El Niño Judío) | Pablo Luna

    — Amber Norelai, soprano

    Granada | Agustín Lara

    — David Portillo, tenor

    Riez, allez! (from Don Quichotte) | Massenet

    — Le Bu, bass-baritone

    Seguidilla (from Carmen) | Bizet

    — Cecelia Hall, mezzo-soprano

    Old American Songs | Copland
    I. The Boatmen’s Dance
    II. The Dodger
    III. Simple Gifts
    IV. At the River
    V. I Bought Me a Cat

    — Darren Lekeith Drone, baritone

    Silent Noon | R. Vaughan Williams

    — Le Bu

    I. Autumn in New York (from Thumbs Up!) | Vernon Duke
    II. Till there was you (from The Music Man) | Meredith Willson
    III. Love is here to stay (from The Goldwyn Follies) | George Gershwin

    — Susanna Phillips, soprano

    Sit Down, You’re Rockin’ the Boat (from Guys and Dolls) | Frank Loesser

    — David Portillo and Amber Norelai, Susanna Phillips, Cecelia Hall, Darren Lekeith Drone & Le Bu

    No One Is Alone (from Into the Woods) | Stephen Sondheim

    — Amber Norelai, Cecelia Hall, David Portillo & Darren Lekeith Drone

    Being Alive (from Company) | Stephen Sondheim

    — David Portillo

    Getting Married Today (from Company) | Stephen Sondheim

    — Susanna Phillips, Amber Norelai & David Portillo

    I. Waitin’ for my Dearie (from Brigadoon) | Lerner & Loewe
    II. Somebody, somewhere (from Most Happy Fella) | Frank Loesser

    — Amber Norelai

    It Never Was You (from Knickerbocker Holiday) | Kurt Weill

    — Cecelia Hall & Darren Lekeith Drone

    Some Enchanted Evening (from South Pacific) | Rodgers & Hammerstein

    — Le Bu

    I. I’d Rather be Sailing (from A New Brain) | William Finn
    II. Friend Like Me (from Aladdin) | Alan Menken & Howard Ashman

    — Darren Lekeith Drone

    Over the Rainbow (from The Wizard of Oz) | Arlen & Harburg

    — Cecelia Hall

    You’ll Never Walk Alone/Climb Every Mountain | Rodgers & Hammerstein (arr. Mark Hayes)

    — Amber Norelai, Susanna Phillips, Cecelia Hall, David Portillo, Darren Lekeith Drone & Le Bu