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GUEST
ARTIST with PERCUSSIA
Percussia
features top new music talent on the scene today, (veteren harpsit Susan Jolles,
intrepid flutist Margaret Lancaster and renowned ecclectic composer Lev "Ljova"
Zhurbin, and world-music expert Ingrid Gordon) and is committed to fostering
new work. On this concert, I join Percussia for 3 world premieres by Ordway,
Roberts, and Keesecker and am pleased to sing "Starfish at Pescadero"
once again by Dennis Tobenski, who wrote the piece for Percussia's found Ingrid
Gordon and me which we premiered in 2007.
October
10, 2009, 3:30 PM, Queens Public Library, Jackson Heights Branch
35-51 81st Street, Jackson Heights, NY. FREE ADMISSION
SUMMER 2009
THE
MAGIC FLUTE (Mozart) NYCO at the River to River Festival, NYC
The
Magic Flute is an ideal introductory opera, offering familiar tunes, colorful
characters, rollicking comedy, and an upbeat message for audiences of all
ages. This is a free outdoor one-hour version, sung in English with New York
City Opera Orchestra. I'm singing First Lady.
June 25, 2009, 7 pm, Rockefeller
Park, River
Terrace and Warren Street
Free Outdoor Performance
For more info, and a link for a map, click
here.
DIDO & AENEAS (Purcell) YardArts! Opera, Martha's Vineyard,
MA
YardArts!
Opera returns after its hit 2008 premiere season. Continuing the creative
collaboration between director/choreographer Wendy Taucher and Conductor Elizabeth
Scott, The Yard presents Purcell’s heartbreakingly beautiful Dido
& Aeneas, along with Queens, Witches & Kings, a short
second act of opera show stoppers. I'm singing the role of Second Woman.
Friday, August 7th, 2009, 8 pm
Saturday, August 8th, 2009, 4 pm & 8 pm
Sunday, August 9th, 2009, 7 pm
Friday, August 14th, 2009, 8 pm
Saturday, August 15th, 2009, 4 pm & 8 pm
Sunday, August 16th, 2009, 7 pm
For tickets and more information, click here.
Maybe you recall watching Anderson Cooper interviewing Senator Mary Landrieu
on CNN shortly after Hurricane Katrina? If not, check out Ted Hearne's Katrina
Ballads, with me as the senator. He sets the interview almost word for
word, along with words of Kanye West, and George W. Bush. I'm also in Chandler
Carter's No Easy Walk to Freedom, and David Bruce's A Bird in
Your Ear.
May
1 & 2, 2009, NYU Skirball Center, New York City.
LOVE HAS NO BOUNDS - Musique
a la Mode (featuring scenes from the opera Patience & Sarah
In response to Proposition 8, this chamber
music concert will benefit The Hetrick–Martin Institute, home of the
Harvey Milk High School, the largest and oldest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender
and questioning (LGBTQ) youth-service provider supporting New York City’s
most vulnerable and at-risk community. The concert will feature scenes from
Patience & Sarah. Get out your hanky and watch terrific video
coverage of the birth of this piece 10 years ago, learn more about this concert
and the ensemble by clicking here.
Sunday, Feb 15, 2 pm St. Mark's Church in the Bowery,
131 E. 10th St., NYC
Tickets are $25 (online by clicking here
or by calling 1-800-838-3006), or $30 at the door the day of the performance.
MIDTOWN CONCERT SERIES presented
by ARTEK featuring
NOTES ON A SCANDAL - Cantatas of Alessandro Stradella
17th century Italian pyrotechnics over swinging
bass lines! Bizarre harmonic progressions! Over-the-top Drama! High notes!
(Quite rare for the period.) My idea of musical heaven. Yet this is the first
performance of this genre I've given in NY in FIVE YEARS so don't miss it!
I'll be joined by harpsichordist Jennifer Griesbach and baroque cellist Christine
Gummere, both of whom are featured on my award-winning Handel CD, Scorned
& Betrayed.
Wednesday, Feb 18, 1:15 pm St.
Bartholomew's Church, Park Ave at 51st St. NYC
Admission FREE
STRANGE FRUIT (Carter), HSA
in association with New York City Opera
Betrayal. Murder. Revenge. Passion. All are
coming to the stage at The Harlem School of the Arts during Black History
Month in Strange Fruit, a new American opera adapted from Lillian
Smith’s best-selling novel whose title was taken from the famous Billie
Holiday song of the same name. Composed by Chandler Carter with libretto by
Joan Ross Sorkin, Strange Fruit in Concert is being presented by The Harlem
School of the Arts in association with New York City Opera The cast of the
opera includes: Janinah Burnett, Daniel Neer, Robert Hughes, Tamara Haskin,
Edward Pleasant, Djoré Nance, Heather Hill, Abby Fischer, Matthew Kreger,
Dominic Inferrera, Daniel Yarzebinski, Karen Lehman, Abigail Brown and Lindsay
O'Neil. I'll be portraying the role of Dorothy. Performances will be conducted
by Steven Gross and accompanied by Marijo Newman on piano.
Friday, Feb. 27, 2009 at 8pm and Sunday, March 1 at
2pm.
HSA Gathering Space, 645 St. Nicholas Avenue (b/w W. 141 & 145 St), NYC
Admission $15. Tickets on sale now. Call 212-926-4100, ext.304.
For more information on the opera, click here
for press release.
DESIRE: David Del Tredici's
My Favorite Penis Poems
Thursday, December 4 at 7:30 pm, Leonard
Nimoy Thalia Theater,
Symphony Space, W. 95th Street & Broadway, NYC
Day of Show $30; Advance $25; Members $20
Part of the Adventures Series. I'm doing the former piece. What else can I
say? You'll just have to come (ba-dum-bum) and see it.
Highlights from the 2008-2007 season
CORONATION
OF POPPEA, Opera Omnia at Le Poisson Rouge
People are still talking about this production, Opera
Omnia's first, which took place in a new hip village club. I auditioned for
kicks, and was surprised to be cast as Ottavia, usually performed by mezzos.
But that's what happens when I show up singing Purcell's The Blessed Virgin's
Expostulation. You want drama? Here ya go--Ottavia! It was actually a good
fit for my voice. I enjoyed the experience immensely and still can't get over
all of the publicity and buzz it got. To see the nice mentions I got, click
here.. As for pictures, I got the short shrift! Can't have everything.
KING ARTHUR (Purcell), New York
City Opera
I was covering in Mark Morris's production of King Arthur
with Jane Glover conducting. The part? What was known as Cupid/Venus/Honour
now has the illustrious name of Soprano I. Got
to perform 2 shows, on March 8 & 9, officially making my City Opera debut!
Here's a short and very sweet opinion about it on opera expert James Camner's
blog.
LA
SERVA PADRONA (Pergolesi), Seattle Baroque Orchestra
It's always great to perform with Seattle Baroque and
I really enjoyed playing Serpina, a perfect role for me. There's a video clip
of "A Serpina penserete" here.
Musical Direction - Ingrid Matthews, Stage Direction - Jennifer
Griesbach.
April 12 & 13, 2008. For
full details, click
here.
NEW
YORK CITY OPERA - VOX 2008
“A hip and adventurous event...A focus of
the new music scene every year.”
The New York Times
Determinate, indeterminate, and spontaneous. is how composer
John King's music has been described. I had the amazing opportunity to
be asked to his one-woman showcase called Dice Thrown. It turned
out to be the sleeper hit - check my review
page. Better yet, LISTEN to this "striking aleatoric soundscape built
from chance operations" by clicking here.
(scroll down to AUDIO EXCERPT)
Then, read about what King was seeking to acheive by clicking here.
May 10, 2008,
NYU Skirball Center, New York City.
DAVID
DEL TREDICI WORLD PREMIERE!! A Field Manual
It was really exciting to perform a
piece that was written with me in mind. Commissioned for the vibrant, cutting-edge
Fireworks Ensemble
, Chris Trakas joined me for this wild and risqué piece, A Field
Manual. Compared to the upcoming My Favorite Penis Poems, the
lesbian s/m rape scene, once shocking to me, seems more like a walk in the
park. Okay, in Central Park at night. Alone.
May 31, 2008 at 7:30, Symphony Space, New York City.
NORTH/SOUTH
CONSONANCE
I
made my debut with this group performing another world premiere-Five Sappho
Fragments by Christopher James for chamber orchestra. I was going to
do it in Greek, but since there was an option to do it in English, I decided
to do that. Rich with erotic longing and soaring melodies, I found it to be
quite a moving experience, and hope that James' plans to record it will materialize.
June 24, 2008 at 8 pm, Christ and St. Stephen's Church,
120 West 69th St., NYC.
Sunday, May 13, 2007, 2 pm
New York City Opera Vox 2007 - A program showcasing American composers.
Skirball
Center for the Performing Arts at NYU
566 LaGuardia Place (Washington Square South)
FREE!
As part of a weekend festival of new opera excerpts
by American composers, I will be appearing as Agafya in With Such Friends
by Tom Schnauber&
Lucy in The Fisher King by Marc Lowenstein.
For descriptions of the excerpts, full festival schedule and more information
about Vox 2007, click here: More
about NYCO Vox 2007
Hear an excerpt of "Is
there a man?" from With Such Friends from VOX 2007.
For all other info about VOX including performance times, click here.
Last update June 11, 2009
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