PacificOperaVictoria | Handwashing to . . . Toreador @PacificOperaVictoria | Uploaded June 2020 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
Featuring Baritone Tyler Duncan | Lyrics Below
In the era of COVID-19, washing your hands is anything but a 'quick & dirty' job! Health experts say we should use the proper technique and scrub for at least 20 to 30 seconds – as long as it takes to sing Happy Birthday twice. But who says you can’t sing something else?
Pacific Opera is here to help! We have created the Handwashing Public Service Video Project, a series of how-to videos featuring singers from our past and future productions, with music by your favourite opera composers and new words by Bill Richardson.
Watch (and sing along) as our opera divas and divos demonstrate proper handwashing procedures while singing popular arias to new lyrics.
Corona-librettist Bill Richardson is an author, humourist, former CBC radio host, and current corona-inspired balcony performance artist.
Tyler Duncan made his debut with Pacific Opera Victoria as Dandini in the company’s 2010 production of Rossini’s Cinderella. Tyler also returned to his home town of Victoria for the 2014 staging by Boston Early Music Festival of two operas by Marc-Antoine Charpentier. An alumnus of Oak Bay High School, he is now based in New York.
Tyler has performed several seasons with the Metropolitan Opera and has sung in concert across North America and Europe, appearing with, among many others, the San Francisco Symphony, New York Philharmonic, Les Violins du Roy, Händel Festival Halle, Verbier Festival, Vancouver Early Music Festival, Stratford Festival, and at Wigmore Hall and Carnegie Hall. He performs frequently in recital with his wife, pianist Erika Switzer, and has recorded with the Toronto and Montreal Symphonies, Boston Early Music Festival, Portland Baroque Orchestra, and Les Voix Baroque. Soon to be released on the Bridge label is English Songs à la française, a duo album with Erika Switzer.
Handwashing to . . . .Toreador!
Do what I tell you
Do not be a dope
Turn on the tap
Reach for the soap
Think like a surgeon
Putting on her scrubs
Rub dub dub dubby dub!
Rub dubby dubby dub!
Rub dubby dub!
Rub dubby dub dub dub.
Heed Dr. Henry
Do as we’ve been taught.
Hands might look clean.
Prob’ly they’re not.
Soap’s the solution
In a sink or tub
Rub dub dub dubby dub!
Rubbity dub dub dub dub dub!
Rubbity dub dub dub!
Rub dub dub dub dub dub!
more "Handwashing to . . . " videos available at pacificopera.ca/event/handwashing
Produced by Rebecca Hass and Shine*ola Communications & Events
Featuring Baritone Tyler Duncan | Lyrics Below
In the era of COVID-19, washing your hands is anything but a 'quick & dirty' job! Health experts say we should use the proper technique and scrub for at least 20 to 30 seconds – as long as it takes to sing Happy Birthday twice. But who says you can’t sing something else?
Pacific Opera is here to help! We have created the Handwashing Public Service Video Project, a series of how-to videos featuring singers from our past and future productions, with music by your favourite opera composers and new words by Bill Richardson.
Watch (and sing along) as our opera divas and divos demonstrate proper handwashing procedures while singing popular arias to new lyrics.
Corona-librettist Bill Richardson is an author, humourist, former CBC radio host, and current corona-inspired balcony performance artist.
Tyler Duncan made his debut with Pacific Opera Victoria as Dandini in the company’s 2010 production of Rossini’s Cinderella. Tyler also returned to his home town of Victoria for the 2014 staging by Boston Early Music Festival of two operas by Marc-Antoine Charpentier. An alumnus of Oak Bay High School, he is now based in New York.
Tyler has performed several seasons with the Metropolitan Opera and has sung in concert across North America and Europe, appearing with, among many others, the San Francisco Symphony, New York Philharmonic, Les Violins du Roy, Händel Festival Halle, Verbier Festival, Vancouver Early Music Festival, Stratford Festival, and at Wigmore Hall and Carnegie Hall. He performs frequently in recital with his wife, pianist Erika Switzer, and has recorded with the Toronto and Montreal Symphonies, Boston Early Music Festival, Portland Baroque Orchestra, and Les Voix Baroque. Soon to be released on the Bridge label is English Songs à la française, a duo album with Erika Switzer.
Handwashing to . . . .Toreador!
Do what I tell you
Do not be a dope
Turn on the tap
Reach for the soap
Think like a surgeon
Putting on her scrubs
Rub dub dub dubby dub!
Rub dubby dubby dub!
Rub dubby dub!
Rub dubby dub dub dub.
Heed Dr. Henry
Do as we’ve been taught.
Hands might look clean.
Prob’ly they’re not.
Soap’s the solution
In a sink or tub
Rub dub dub dubby dub!
Rubbity dub dub dub dub dub!
Rubbity dub dub dub!
Rub dub dub dub dub dub!
more "Handwashing to . . . " videos available at pacificopera.ca/event/handwashing
Produced by Rebecca Hass and Shine*ola Communications & Events
