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One Enchanted Evening - Yuri Sabatini, Tenor

A refined evening of Italian arias and lyrical favourites with tenor Yuri Sabatini.

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The programme moves between operatic arias, art song and Neapolitan repertoire, tracing themes of longing, devotion and romantic intensity. Music by Bellini, Puccini, Verdi and Ponchielli sits alongside Schubert, Tosti and Leoncavallo, with French and Spanish colour from Bizet and Lara.

Programme:

Caro mio ben - Giuseppe Giordani

La promessa, from Soirées musicales - Gioacchino Rossini

Vaga luna che inargenti - Vincenzo Bellini

Questa o quella, from Rigoletto - Giuseppe Verdi

Cielo e mar!, from La Gioconda - Amilcare Ponchielli

Donna non vidi mai, from Manon Lescaut - Giacomo Puccini

La fleur que tu m'avais jetée, from Carmen - Georges Bizet

La danza, from Soirées musicales - Gioacchino Rossini

Ave Maria, 'Ellens Gesänge III', from 7 Gesänge aus Walter Scotts 'Fräulein vom See' Op 52 - Franz Schubert

Maria, from West Side Story - Leonard Bernstein

Parlami d' Amore Mariu - Cesare Andrea Bixio

On the street where you live, from My Fair Lady - Frederick Loewe, lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner

Rondine al nido - Vincenzo di Crescenzo

Marechiare, from 3 canzoni napoletane - Sir Paolo Tosti

Mattinata - Ruggero LeoncavalloDein ist mein ganzes Herz, from The Land of Smiles (Das Land des Lächelns) - Franz Lehár

La donna è mobile, from Rigoletto - Giuseppe Verdi

(Encore: Granada - Augustin Lara)

The evening also embraces operetta and classic musical theatre, revealing the enduring lyrical line that connects these traditions.

Conceived as a continuous listening experience, the recital is presented without interval, allowing the music to resonate with clarity and presence in the unique acoustic of St Paul’s Covent Garden.

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Runtime: 70 minutes (no interval)

Please note there is no assigned seating for this event.

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Biographies

  • Tenor

    Yuri Sabatini

    Italian tenor Yuri Sabatini has built a reputation for his powerful, expressive interpretations of Italian opera and lyrical song. Performing widely across England in recital and concert, he brings clarity of line, tonal brilliance and emotional immediacy to music by Bellini, Puccini, Verdi and their contemporaries. His recital programmes are shaped around the intimacy of voice and piano, allowing the vocal tradition to unfold with directness and depth.

  • Accompanist

    Caroline Jaya-Ratnam

    Caroline Jaya-Ratnam read music at Cambridge University. The winner of several national accompanist's prizes, she has given duo recitals at the Wigmore Hall and Royal Festival Hall, broadcast live numerous times on Radio 3’s ‘In Tune’ and accompanied Bryn Terfel, Danielle de Niese and Rolando Villazon on the Andrew Marr and other television programmes. She has performed in several Proms within the LSO and BBC Symphony Orchestra. As répétiteur she has freelanced for English National Opera and Glyndebourne following being a Junior Fellow at the RCM. Caroline recently recorded a well-reviewed CD, ‘The New Winter Songbook’, with soprano Rebecca Lea (2025)

At St Paul’s

One Enchanted Evening - Yuri Sabatini, Tenor

Dates
12 Mar 2026
Time
7:30pm
Tickets
£25
Where
St Pauls Church Bedford Street London WC2E 9ED Registered Charity No. 1135636
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