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Saturday, October 5, 2019, 8pm Zellerbach Hall Renée Fleming, soprano Richard Bado, piano
Franz SCHUBERT (1797 –1828) Suleika I, D. 720 Lied der Mignon: Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt, D. 877, No. 4 Die Vögel, D. 691 Rastlose Liebe, D. 138
Reynaldo HAHN (1874 –1947) Si mes vers avaient des ailes Léo DELIBES (1836 –1891) Les filles de Cadix
Franz LISZT (1811 –1886) S’il est un charmant gazon, S. 284 Oh! quand je dors, S. 282
INTERMISSION
Kevin PUTS (b. 1972) Selections from Letters from Georgia Introduction and Taos Canyon
Bernard HERRMANN (1911 –1975) “I Have Dreamt” from Wuthering Heights Franz LEHÁR (1870 –1948) “Warum hast du mich wachgeküsst” from Friederike LEHAR “Ich bin verliebt” from Schön ist die Welt
André PREVIN (1929 –2019) “I Want Magic” from A Streetcar Named Desire
Richard RODGERS (1902 –1979) “e Sound of Music” from and Oscar HAMMERSTEIN II (1895 –1960) e Sound of Music Adam GUETTEL (b. 1964) “Fable” from e Light in the Piazza
Cal Performances’ 2019 –20 season is sponsored by Wells Fargo.
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ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Troy to open e Shed in New York City. In June, she made her London musical theater debut as Margaret Johnson in e Light in the Piazza , and she will bring her acclaimed por - trayal to Los Angeles and Chicago this fall. Fleming earned a Tony Award nomination for her performance in the 2018 Broadway pro - duction of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Carou - sel . Her new album, Lieder: Brahms, Schumann, and Mahler , was released by Decca in June. She is heard on the soundtracks of the 2018 Best Picture Oscar winner e Shape of Water and ree Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri , and she provided the singing voice of Roxane, played by Julianne Moore, in the film of Ann Patchett’s bestselling novel Bel Canto . Fleming has recorded everything from com - plete operas and song recitals to indie rock and jazz; and her album Signatures was selected by e t i
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D classical music and opera, Fleming has sung not only with Plácido Domingo and Andrea Renée Fleming (soprano ) is one of the most Bocelli, but also with Elton John, Sting, Josh highly acclaimed singers of our time, perform - Groban, and Joan Baez. She has hosted an array ing on the stages of the world’s greatest opera of television and radio broadcasts, including the houses and concert halls. Winner of four Metropolitan Opera’s Live in HD series and Live Grammy awards, and presented with the US from Lincoln Center . National Medal of Arts by President Obama, In her role as Artistic Advisor to the John Fleming has sung for momentous occasions F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, ranging from the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony Fleming launched a collaboration with the US to the Diamond Jubilee Concert for HM Queen National Institutes of Health, with participation Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace. In 2014, by the National Endowment of the Arts, focused Fleming brought her voice to a vast new audi - on the science connecting music, health, and the ence as the first classical artist ever to sing the brain. Over the past year, she has given more US National Anthem at the Super Bowl. In than 20 presentations with scientists and prac - 2008, Fleming was the first woman in the 125- titioners across North America on this subject. year history of the Metropolitan Opera to solo In 2010, Fleming was named the first-ever headline an opening night gala. Creative Consultant at Lyric Opera of Chicago. Fleming’s schedule this season includes con - She is a member of the board of trustees of Car - certs in New York, Boston, Vienna, Paris, Tokyo, negie Hall, the board of Sing for Hope, and the and Beijing. is past summer, she performed artistic advisory board of the Polyphony Foun - the world premieres of André Previn’s Penelope dation. She is also a spokesperson for the Amer- and Kevin Puts’ e Brightness of Light at i can Musical erapy Association. Fleming’s Tangle wood. Last April, Fleming appeared memoir e Inner Voice , published in 2004, opposite Ben Whishaw in Norma Jean Baker of is currently in its 16th printing. Among her
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awards are the Fulbright Lifetime Achieve ment conducted the Robert Wilson production of Medal, Germany’s Cross of the Order of Merit, Virgil omson’s Four Saints in ree Acts France’s Chevalier de la Légion d’Hon neur, and at the Edinburgh Festival. is season Bado honorary membership in the Royal Academy returns to the Houston Ballet to conduct of Music. www.reneefleming.com. performances of e Nutcracker . An accom - plished pianist, Bado appears regularly with Renée Fleming in recital. He has also played for Cecilia Bartoli, Frederica von Stade, Susan Graham, Denyce Graves, Marcello Giordani, Ramon Vargas, Samuel Ramey, Jamie Barton, Ryan McKinney, and Nathan Gunn. Bado, who holds music degrees from the Eastman School of Music, where he received the 2000 Alumni Achievement Award, and West Vir - ginia University, has studied advanced choral conducting with Robert Shaw. Bado is the director of artistic operations and chorus master for the Houston Grand Opera, where he received the Silver Rose Award in 2013. He has also appeared on A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keil - lor. For 12 years, he was the director of the opera studies program at Rice University’s Richard Bado (piano ) is a native of Pitts - Shepherd School of Music. Bado has been on burgh, Pennsylvania, and made his profes - the faculty of the Aspen Music Festival and sional conducting debut in 1989, leading the School, the Dolora Zajick Institute for Young Houston Grand Opera’s acclaimed produc - Dramatic Voices, the International Vocal tion of Show Boat at the newly restored Cairo School in Moscow, and the Texas Music Festi- Opera House in Egypt. Since then, he has con - val, and has served on the music staff of the ducted at Teatro alla Scala, Opéra National Metropolitan Opera, Seattle Opera, Bol shoi de Paris, Houston Grand Opera, New York Opera Young Artist Program, Opera Austra - City Opera, the Aspen Music Festival, Tulsa lia, Opera eater of St. Louis, Utah Opera, Opera, the Russian National Orchestra, the Chautauqua Opera, and Wolf Trap Opera. He Florida Philharmonic, the Montreal Sym - regularly judges for the Metro politan Opera phony, and Wolf Trap Opera; he has also National Council Auditions.
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FRANz ScHUBERT
Suleika 1, D. 720 [Johann Wolfgang von Goethe] Was bedeutet die Bewegung? What does this stirring mean? Bringt der Ost mir frohe Kunde? Does the east wind bring me happy tidings? Seiner Schwingen frische Regung e rejuvenating movement of its wings Kühlt des Herzens tiefe Wunde. cools my heart’s deep wound. Kosend spielt er mit dem Staube, It plays sweetly with the dust, Jagt ihn auf in leichten Wölkchen, throwing it up in light clouds, Treibt zur sichern Rebenlaube and sends a happy swarm of insects Der Insekten frohes Völkchen. to their safety in the vine-leaves. Lindert san der Sonne Glühen, It gently soens the sun’s burning heat Kühlt auch mir die heissen Wangen, and cools my warm cheeks; Küsst die Reben noch im Fliehen, even as it blows it kisses the vines Die auf Feld und Hügel prangen. that decorate the fields and hillsides. Und mir bringt sein leises Flüstern And its so whispering brings me Von dem Freunde tausend Grüsse; a thousand greetings from my beloved; Eh’ noch diese Hügel düstern, before the hills get dark Grüssen mich wohl tausend Küsse. I will be met with a thousand kisses. Und so kannst du weiter ziehen! Now you might move on, Diene Freunden und Betrübten. and serve the happy and the sad; Dort wo hohe Mauern glühen, there, where high walls glow, Dort find’ ich bald den Vielgeliebten. I will soon find my beloved. Ach, die wahre Herzenskunde, Ah, the real message of the heart, Liebeshauch, erfrischtes Leben breath of love, life renewed Wird mir nur aus seinem Munde, will come to me from only his lips, Kann mir nur sein Atem geben. can be given to me by his breath only.
Lied der Mignon: Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt Only one who knows longing From 4 Gesänge aus ‘Wilhelm Meister,’ D. 877 [Johann Wolfgang von Goethe] Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt Only one who knows longing Weiss, was ich leide! Knows what I suffer!
Allein und abgetrennt Alone and cut off Von aller Freude, From all joys, Seh’ ich an’s Firmament I gaze across the firmament Nach jener Seite. Toward the other side. Ach! der mich liebt und kennt Ah! he who loves and knows me Ist in der Weite. Is far away. Es schwindelt mir, es brennt I am reeling, Mein Eingeweide. I am burning deep inside.
Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt Only one who knows longing Weiss, was ich leide! Knows what I suffer!
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Die Vögel D. 691 Birds [Friedrich von Schlegel] Wie lieblich und fröhlich, How lovely and delightful Zu schweben, zu singen, To float, to sing, Von glänzender Höhe From the dazzling heights Zur Erde zu blicken! To look down at the earth!
Die Menschen sind thöricht, Men are foolish: Sie können nicht fliegen ey don’t know how to fly. Sie jammern in Nöthen, ey bemoan their fate; Wir flattern gen Himmel. We soar to the heavens.
Der Jäger will tödten, e hunter wants to kill us, Dem Früchte wir pickten; Whose fruit we picked, Wir müssen ihn höhnen, But we scoff at him Und Beute gewinnen. And collect the bounty.
Rastlose Liebe [Johann Wolfgang von Goethe] Dem Schnee, dem Regen, Into the snow, the rain, Dem Wind entgegen, and the wind, Im Dampf der Klüe, through humid cliffs, Durch Nebeldüe, through the mist, Immer zu! Immer zu! forward, always forward! Ohne Rast und Ruh! Without rest! Lieber durch Leiden I would rather fight Wollt’ ich mich schlagen, through pain Als so viel Freuden than survive so much Des Lebens ertragen. of life’s joy. Alle das Neigen is love Von Herzen zu Herzen, of one heart for another, Ach, wie so eigen ah, how strangely Schaffet es Schmerzen! it causes pain! Wie soll ich flieh’n? How shall I escape? Wälderwärts zieh’n? Into the forest? Alles vergebens! It is all for nothing! Krone des Lebens, Crown of life, Glück ohne Ruh, happiness without peace— Liebe, bist du! this, is you!
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REyNALDO HAHN Si mes vers avaient des ailes [Victor Hugo] If my verses had wing Mes vers fuiraient, doux et frêles, My verses would run, sweet and frail, Vers votre jardin si beau, Towards your beautiful garden, Si mes vers avaient des ailes, If my verses had wings, Comme l’oiseau. Like a bird. Ils voleraient, étincelles, ey would fly, and spark, Vers votre foyer qui rit, To your happy home, Si mes vers avaient des ailes, If my verses had wings, Comme l’esprit. Like a spirit. Près de vous, purs et fidèles, Near you, pure and faithful, Ils accourraient, nuit et jour, ey would come, night and day, Si mes vers avaient des ailes, If my verses had wings, Comme l’amour! Like love
LéO DELIBES Les filles de cadix e girls of cadiz [Alfred de Musset] Nous venions de voir le taureau, We were coming from seeing the bull, Trois garçons, trois fillettes. ree boys, three girls, Sur la pelouse il faisait beau, On the grass the weather was fair, Et nous dansions un boléro And we were dancing a bolero Au son des castagnettes: To the sound of castanets; Dites-moi, voisin, Tell me, neighbor, Si j’ai bonne mine If I look well Et si ma basquine And if my skirt Va bien, ce matin Looks good on me, this morning, Vous me trouvez la taille fine? Do you find my waist slender? Ah! ah! Ah! Ah! Les filles de Cadix aiment assez cela e girls of Cadiz rather like that. Et nous dansions un boléro, And we were dancing a bolero, Au pied de la colline. At the foot of the hill. Sur le chemin passait Diégo, On the road passed by Diego, Qui pour tout bien n’a qu’un manteau Who for worldly goods has only a coat Et qu’une mandoline: And a mandolin: La belle aux doux yeux, Beautiful one with sweet eyes, Veux-tu qu’à l’église Do you want to the church Demain te conduise Tomorrow to be conducted Un amant jaloux? By a jealous lover? Jaloux! jaloux! quelle sottise! Jealous! Jealous! What stupidity! Ah! ah! Ah! Ah! Les filles de Cadix craignent ce défaut là! e girls of Cadiz fear that fault!
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FRANz LISzT
S’il est un charmant gazon If it is a charming lawn [Victor Hugo] S’il est un charmant gazon If it is a charming lawn Que le ciel arrose, May the sky water it, Où brille en toute saison Where it shines in all seasons Quelque fleur éclose, Some flowers bloom, Où l’on cueille à pleine main Where we pick handfuls of Lys, chèvrefeuille et jasmin, Lillies, honeysuckle and jasmine, J’en veux faire le chemin I want to go Où ton pied se pose! Where your foot lands!
S’il est un rêve d’amour, If it is a dream of love, Parfumé de rose, Scented with rose, Où l’on trouve chaque jour Where we find each day Quelque douce chose, Something sweet, Un rêve que Dieu bénit, A dream that God blesses, Où l’âme à l’âme s’unit, Where souls unite, Oh! j’en veux faire le nid Oh! I want to make a home Où ton cœur se pose! Where your heart is!
Oh! Quand je dors Oh! When I sleep [Victor Hugo] Oh! quand je dors, viens auprès de ma couche, Oh, when I sleep, come close to me, Comme à Pétrarque apparaissait Laura, As Laura once approached Petrarch, Et qu’en passant ton haleine me touche … And let your breath touch me in passing … Soudain ma bouche Suddenly, my lips S’entr’ouvrira! Will open!
Sur mon front morne où peut-être s’achève On my sad brow, where a somber dream Un songe noir qui trop longtemps dura, at lasted too long ends, Que ton regard comme un astre se lève … Let your look rise like a star … Et soudain mon rêve Suddenly, my dream Rayonnera! Will shine!
Puis sur ma lèvre où voltige une flamme, en on my lips, where a flame lingers— Éclair d’amour que Dieu même épura, A flash of love that God himself purifies— Pose un baiser, et d’ange deviens femme … Place a kiss and transform from angel into woman … Soudain mon âme Suddenly, my soul S’éveillera! Will wake!
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KEVIN PUTS Letters from Georgia Text by Georgia O’Keeffe (1887–1986)
Introduction I just feel so like expanding here— My first memory is of the brightness of light— way out to the horizon— light all around. and up into the sunshine— and out into the night. I. Taos In this sun one just feels suspended in heat— V. Canyon expecting to disappear Tonight I walked into the sunset. at any moment. e whole sky—was just blazing— and grey blue clouds were riding It was a really beautiful aernoon— all through the holiness of it— e simple Pueblo village— and the whole thing lit up all of mud— with flashes of lightning. and the dancing—everyone in colors of such rich saturated pigment— I walked out past the last house— the brilliant sun and blue sky. past the locust tree— and sat on a fence for a long time— It went on and on— looking— the brilliancy of color—the live eyes— you see there was nothing it is terribly exciting—and at the same time but sky and flat prairie land— quieting like the ocean. land that seems more like ocean than anything else I know. I want to wear a sheet and ride like the Indian men It is absurd the way I love this country. that came tearing through the Pueblo gate in a body—all riding like mad. And the SKY—Anita you have never seen SKY—
It is wonderful.
BERNARD HERMANN “I have dreamt” from Wuthering Heights [Lucille Fletcher] I have dreamt in my life And the angels flung me back to earth, dreams that have stayed with me forever, and Wuthering Heights, and have gone through and through me, Where I awoke, sobbing, sobbing, like wine through water, for joy. and have altered the color of my mind.
I dreamt once that I was in heaven, And that heav’n did not seem to be my home. And I broke my heart with weeping to see the heath again.
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FRANz LEHÁR “Warum hast du mich wachgeküsst” from Friederike Warum hast du mich wach geküsst? Why did you kiss me awake? Hab’ nicht gewusst, was Liebe ist. I did not know what love is. Mein Herz war leicht My heart was light wie Laub im Wind. like leaves in the wind. Ich war kein Weib, I was not a woman ich war ein Kind. I was a child.
Hab’ nicht gewusst, was Herzleid ist. I did not know what heartache is. Warum hast Du mich wach geküsst? Why did you kiss me awake?
LEHAR “Ich bin verliebt” from Schön ist die Welt Ich bin verliebt, ach ich bin verliebt. I’m in love, ah, I’m in love. Ich bin so verliebt, I’m so in love, bin verliebt, bin so verliebt I’m in love, so in love masslos verliebt Rapturously in love so wie ein kleines Mädel! like a little girl!
Nie hätt’ ich gedacht, I never would have thought dass uns die Lieb so selig macht. that love could make one so happy. Ich möcht’ lachen und jubeln und tanzen I want to laugh and cheer and dance durch die singende, klingende Welt. through the singing, ringing world. Ich bin so verliebt, so verliebt, so verliebt. I’m so in love, so in love, so in love.
Warum bin ich so froh? How am I so happy? Die ganze Welt hüllt Sonnenschein heute ein. e whole world is wrapped in sunshine today. Ach, wie schön ist doch die Liebe! Oh, how beautiful is love! Warum freu’ ich mich so? Why am I so happy? Ich fühl’ nur eins ganz tief in Herzen drin, I feel only one thing deep in my heart, dass ich glücklich bin. that I am happy.
Bin verliebt, bin so verliebt, masslos verliebt I’m in love, I’m so in love, I’m completely in love so wie ein kleines Mädel. like a little girl. Nie hätt’ ich gedacht, I never would have thought dass uns die Lieb so selig macht. that love could make one so happy. Ich möcht’ lachen und jubeln und tanzen I want to laugh and cheer and dance durch die singende, klingende Welt. through the singing, ringing world.
Ich bin so verliebt, so verliebt, so verliebt. I’m so in love, so in love, so in love. Ja, ich bin so verliebt, so verliebt! Yes, I’m so in love, so in love!
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ANDRé PREVIN RIcHARD RODGERS “I Want Magic” from AND OScAR HAMMERSTEIN II A Streetcar Named Desire “e Sound of Music” from Real! Who wants real? e Sound of Music I know I don’t want it. I want magic! My day in the hills Magic! Yes! at’s what I want! Has come to an end, I know. at’s what I try to give to people. A star has come out To tell me it’s time to go. I do misrepresent things. But deep in the dark green shadows, I don’t tell the truth. Are voices that urge me to stay. But I tell what ought to be the truth. So I pause and I wait and I listen, What it ought to be. For one more sound, For one more lovely thing Yes, magic. Magic’s what I try to give to people. at the hills might say! If that’s a sin, If that is such a sin, then let me be… e hills are alive with the sound of music damned for it! With songs they have sung for a thousand years Don’t turn on that light! e hills fill my heart with the sound of music My heart wants to sing every song it hears It’ll all look so ugly in that light. Why not see by candlelight… My heart wants to beat like the wings of the birds or moonlight, or by starlight? that rise from the lake to the trees ey are bright enough to see by. My heart wants to sigh like a chime that flies Sometimes too bright. from a church on a breeze To laugh like a brook when it trips and falls over stones on its way To sing through the night like a lark who is learning to pray
I go to the hills when my heart is lonely I know I will hear what I’ve heard before My heart will be blessed with the sound of music And I’ll sing once more
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ADAM GUETTEL “Fable” from e Light in the Piazza You can look in the forest Just a painting For a secret field On a ceiling For a golden arrow Just a children’s fairy tale For a prince to appear Still you have to look For a fable of love that will last forever And look, and look, and look…
You can look in the ruins For the eyes For a wishing well On a bridge in a pouring rain For a magic apple Not the eyes but the part you can’t explain For a charioteer For the arms you could fall into forever For a fable of love that will carry you For the joy that you thought you’d never know To a moon on a hill For here at last away you go To a hidden stream To a man who looks for you A lagoon and a red horizon dream Silhouette set away from time forever If you find in the world In the wide, wide world To a valley beyond the setting sun at someone sees Where waters shine and horses run at someone knows you Where there’s a man who looks for you Love But while you look you are changing, turning Love You’re a well of wishes Love if you can, Oh, my Clara You’re a fallen apple Love if you can And be loved No! No! May it last forever, Clara Love’s a fake e light in the piazza Love’s a fable