Ronald Hedlund Sound & Video Links

Film Voice Over/Narration

PBS Video Voice Over "Tarahumara: Pillars of the World" Narration/Voice Over by Ronald Hedlund on YouTube

Popular Songs with Orchestra & in Recital

• Some Enchanted Evening from South Pacific Use Music Player for Google Drive Ronald Hedlund, Bass-Baritone in concert, Danville Symphony, IL, Jeremy Swerling, Music Director

• That's Amore - Dec 13, 2016 Recital with Dr. Edward Rath, pianist

• "Ole Blue Eyes - Frankly Speaking" - Frank Sinatra Songs 3/28/2017 Recitals Proceeds from these programs funded the 2017-18 season of CUSO Guild In School Concerts
  I'll Never Smile Again | One for My Baby & One More for the Road | I'll Be Seeing You |September Song

Opera, Orchestral & Recitals live recordings

• Bartolo's Aria from Rossini's Barber of Seville, The Prairie Ensemble Chamber Orchestra, Kevin Kelly Music Director

• San Francisco Opera live production of Massenet's Werther Ronald Hedlund as Albert with soprano Heather Harper

• Fair Lady, Gracious Gentlemen from Stravinsky's Rake's Progress Ronald Hedlund, Bass-Baritone in concert with the Champaign Urbana Symphony at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, Steven Larsen Music Director

• Ronald Hedlund sings Wagner's O, du mein holder Abendstern - This is the aria he sang as a Metropolitan Opera Audition finalist which led to becoming a member of the Metropolitan Opera National Company for two seasons.

• La Boheme - Ronald Hedlund as Benoit the landlord at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts

• Mozart's concert aria Per questa bella mano

• Handel's Revenge Timotheus Cries from Alexander's Feast

• Sois Immobile from Rossini's Guillaume Tell

• Wagner Der Meistersinger Act 3 Finale - As Hans Sachs singing Honor Your German Masters, Ronald Hedlund, Bass-Baritone in concert with the Champaign Urbana Symphony & the UI Oratorio Society, Steven Larsen, Music Director at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts

• Beethoven Symphony No. 9 Finale
  Basso Solo, Ronald Hedlund, Bass-Baritone in Eisenstadt, Austria in the Esterhazy Palace Haydnsaal

• Danse Macabre /Ziggy, Ziggy Zag by Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns, Ronald Hedlund, Bass-Baritone & Eric Dalheim, Piano in concert at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts

• Ecco il Mondo from Mefistofele by Arrigo Boito, performances with the CU Symphony & Rockford Symphony, Music Director Steven Larsen

• Mephisto's Serenade from Faust Ronald Hedlund, Bass-Baritone & Eric Dalheim, Piano in concert at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts

• Libera me - Faure Requiem with the Bradley University Chorale, Dr. John Jost, Music Director for the Jerry Hadley Memorial Service, Manlius, IL

• Arise, Ye Subterranean Winds from Henry Purcell's The Tempest Ronald Hedlund, Bass-Baritone & Eric Dalheim, Piano Summer Nights at Grace Recital Series, Urbana, IL

Educational Program Videos

• "O'er the Ramparts We Watched: Songs of WW II (<URL) with Pianist Kevin Zhou, August 11, 2022, Wheels O' Time Museum, Dunlap, IL Sept. 19, 2022 (Video excerpted w/o spoken intros)

• Narrator Peter & the Wolf for Music & Marionettes with members of the CU Symphony & puppeteers at the Urbana Free Library, sponsored by an Urbana Public Arts Grant

• Eating Goober Peas & other Civil War Songs -
  Bass-baritone Ronald Hedlund & Eric Dalheim, Piano

• Yarmouth Fair & The Fox (<URL) from Musical Critters
  In School songs demonstration 9.23.2017 Bass-baritone Ronald Hedlund & Sarah Schwartz, Piano

• I Bought Me a Cat ( URL) In School songs demonstration 9.23.2017 Bass-baritone Ronald Hedlund & Sarah Schwartz, Piano
  
  More Opera & Vocal Selections

• Vienna, City of My Dreams - World Premiere edition made for Bass-baritone Ronald Hedlund with the Heartland Festival Orchestra

• Fledermaus Finale from Act I by Johann Strauss, Jr. Ronald Hedlund, Bass-Baritone with the Heartland Festival Orchestra & Ronald's former UI students Soprano Kay Welch, Tenor Justin Vickers

• L' Elisir d'Amore (The Elixir of Love) by Gaetano Donizetti - Doctor Dulcamara's arrival, Act I

• Say It with Music from Boom to Bust Ronald Hedlund, Bass-Baritone; Eric Dalheim, piano -

• Ain't Misbehavin - Thomas "Fats" Waller Ronald Hedlund, Bass-Baritone; Eric Dalheim, piano -

• Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
  Ronald Hedlund, Bass-Baritone; Eric Dalheim, piano

• O Holy Night - Adolph Adam Dec. 24, 2016 Annual Repeat Christmas Eve Service Community United Church of Christ, Urbana, IL, Cara Chowning, piano

• Barbershop Favorites by the White Coat Four "Too Loud Daddy" with Robert Driver, Doctors James Kumar & John Brockenbrough, & Ronald Hedlund

• Cancion al Rio Grande from a Distant Mesa - world premiere from the NM Cultural Center, music by Daniel Steven Crafts, text by Rudolfo Anaya, Ronald Hedlund, Bass-Baritone, Barbara Hedlund, Cello, Charles Worth, Piano

• La Llorona Premiere - Malinche's Story - world premiere at the NM Cultural Center, music by Daniel Steven Crafts, text by Rudolfo Anaya, Ronald Hedlund, Bass-Baritone, as Abuelo (tells the story of Malinche, an Aztec Princess at the time of the Spanish Conquest)

• La Llorona Guard's Aria Premiere -
  (Bass Range: D3 – D#4) Duration: 3:40, The Guard, Ronald Hedlund, Bass-Baritone, tells of his horror at seeing a lake full of blood

• The Collar for Narrator & Solo Cello - World Premiere -
  A musical setting of a story by Hans Christian Andersen composed by Elaine Fine. Written for and premiered by Barbara Hedlund, Cello, Ronald Hedlund, Narrator in Savoy, IL on October 23, 2018. Video by Guilherme Ehrat Zils

See and hear more of Ronald Hedlund in recital on YouTube and on the Virtuoso Obbligato Aria Collection website.