On June 6, 2025, Nana Miyoshi was the featured artist for a concert presented by New York’s Columbus Citizens Foundation in collaboration with the Alexander & Buono Foundation. Entitled “The Power of Inspiration,” the concert featured works written by Shakespeare that inspired both operas by Bellini and Verdi, as well as transcriptions by Franz Liszt. Ms. Miyoshi also served as collaborative artist for two singers as part of the concert, Soprano Celeste Siciliano and Bass Philip Phillips.

Here is the full program:

I

Concert Paraphrase on Rigoletto, S.434

Franz Liszt (1811—1886)

NANA MIYOSHI, Piano

II

Macbeth

Studia il passo, o mio figlio...Come dal ciel precipita

Giuseppe Verdi (1813—1901)

PHILIP PHILLIPS, Bass

NANA MIYOSHI, Piano

III

Réminiscences de Norma, S.394

Liszt

Ms Miyoshi

IV

Norma

Sediziose voci…Casta diva…Ah! Bello a me ritorna

Vincenzo Bellini (1801—1835)

CELESTE SICILIANO, Soprano

NANA MIYOSHI, Piano

In “Come dal ciel precipita” Banquo has a terrible sense of foreboding as tells his son that on a night just such as this, the great King Duncan was murdered, and how this night is a signal of his own death. Once the assassins reach Banquo, he begs his son to run away so that he might not be captured as well.

Studia il passo, o mio figlio...
Usciam da queste tenèbre...
Un senso ignoto
Nascer mi sento in petto,
Pien di tristo presagio e di sospetto.

Come dal ciel precipita
L'ombra più sempre oscura!
In notte ugual trafissero
Duncano, il mio signor.
Mille affannose immagini
M'annunciano sventura,
E il mio pensiero ingombrano 

Di larve e di terror.

Ohimè !... Fuggi, mio figlio !
O tradimento !... 

Be careful how you go, o my son...
Let’s go out from this darkness...
I feel something unknown
Growing in my heart,
Fraught with sad premonition and suspicion.

How the shade falls from heaven
More and more obscure !
On such another night as this
They stabbed to death Duncan, my lord.
A thousand nightmares
Are foretelling me misfortune,
And are oppressing my mind
With ghosts and dread.

Alas !... Run away, o my son !...
O treachery ! 

As surprising as it may seem, Dr. Phililp Phillips is not a singer by profession, but instead a Professor of Physics at the Physics at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign where The National Institute of Higher Education, Research, Science and Technology describes him as being “among the leading thinkers today in the field of theoretical condensed matter (or solid state) physics.”  Having always had a great love of music, he began pursuing formal studies just ten years ago under the great operatic soprano Cynthia Haymon, and continued his work with Kenneth Overton in New York and Michael Preacely in Kentucky. He continues to perform in opera and oratorio in Illinois, and will be performing this summer in Bologna, Italy.

Nana Miyoshi is supported by the Alexander & Buono Foundation, and makes her Carnegie Hall solo recital debut on May 3, 2026 under their auspices, and in partnership with the Marcello and Graziano Roviaro Foundation.