Heritage Series: Honoring Mahin Shamszad and Homayoon Farzadegan

Sunday, Feb 16, 2025 at 3:00pm

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We are delighted to honor Mahin Shamszad & Homayoon Farzadegan with a concert of operatic tours de force performed by singers of international acclaim with chamber orchestra. Dr. Shamszad is a long-time arts supporter having served on the Board of the Baltimore Opera Company, and has been a dedicated patron since the inception of Maryland Opera in 2017. Dr. Shamszad trained in gastroenterology at Tufts University in Boston as well as the University of Maryland, and had a successful practice in Baltimore for 34 years.

Dr. Farzadegan is a full professor of infectious diseases, epidemiology, and molecular microbiology and immunology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He has been teaching and doing research on blood born viral infections for 38 years and is the founder and Director of the Johns Hopkins bio repository, maintaining 2.5 million samples. He is also director of the virology, serology, and epigenetics laboratories. He has been actively researching the HIV epidemic, epigenetics of autism as well as genetics of COPD.

Dr. Shamszad & Dr. Farzadegan share a deep love of opera and are both great supporters of the arts community in Baltimore.

PROGRAM

Largo al factotum
Il barbiere di Siviglia
Mr. Manea
Gioacchino Rossini

​​Ernani, involami
Ernani
Ms. Burton
Giuseppe Verdi

​​Alzati...Eri tu
Un ballo in maschera
Mr. Manea
Giuseppe Verdi

​​The Flower Song
Carmen
Mr. Pickle
Georges Bizet

​Silvio/Nedda Duet
Pagliacci
Ms. Burton & Mr. Manea
Ruggero Leoncavallo

Donna non vidi mai
Manon Lescaut
Mr. Pickle
Giacomo Puccini

Depuis le jour
Louise
Ms. Burton
Gustave Charpentier

Nemico della patria
Andrea Chénier
Mr. Manea
Umberto Giordani

Tu, tu!
Manon Lescaut
Ms. Burton & Mr. Pickle
Giacomo Puccini

INTERMISSION

Honoring Mahin & Homayoon

With A Song in My Heart
Spring is Here
Ms. Burton
Rodgers & Hart

No One is Alone
Into the Woods
Ms. Burton
Stephen Sondheim

The Impossible Dream
Man of La Mancha
Mr. Manea
Mitch Leigh

Some Enchanted Evening
South Pacific
Mr. Manea
Rodgers & Hammerstein

All the Things You Are
Very Warm for May
Mr. Pickle
Jerome Kern

Bring Him Home
Les Misérables
Mr. Pickle
Claude-Michel Schönberg

I Have Dreamed
The King and I
Ms. Burton & Mr. Pickle
Rodgers & Hammerstein

Something Wonderful
The King and I
Ms. Burton
Rodgers & Hammerstein

Stars
Les Misérables
Mr. Manea
Claude-Michel Schönberg

Nessun dorma
Turandot
Mr. Pickle
Giacomo Puccini

You'll Never Walk Alone
Carousel
Tutti
Rodgers & Hammerstein

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