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SUSAN GRAHAM, Mezzo-Soprano BRADLEY MOORE, Piano BRADLEY MOORE radley Moore has performed in recital with many of the world’s great singers, including Susan Graham, Renée Fleming, Jamie BBarton, Christine Goerke, Angela Meade, and Eric Cutler. He has been a piano soloist with orchestras including the National Symphony Orchestra and the Buffalo Philharmonic. He performed the Martinů Tuesday • May 11 • 6:00 pm Harpsichord Concerto with the San Francisco Ballet for the world pre- Benjamin Franklin Hall miere of Mark Morris’ Beaux, and has also been heard as a recitative American Philosophical Society accompanist and continuo player with the Met Orchestra, the Wiener Philharmoniker, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and the Met Chamber SUSAN GRAHAM, mezzo-soprano Ensemble. Mr. Moore has conducted the world premieres of The House Without a Christmas Tree (Ricky Ian Gordon) and Some Light BRADLEY MOORE, piano Emerges (Laura Kaminsky) at the Houston Grand Opera, and has led the company’s revival of The Little Prince, as well as performances of Tosca, L’elisir d’amore, and The Magic Flute. Mr. Moore has also conducted FRAUENLIEBE UND LEBEN: VARIATIONS Ariadne auf Naxos, Dead Man Walking, The Cunning Little Vixen, and I. The Crucible at the Miami Music Festival and Madama Butterfly at the ROBERT SCHUMANN [1810-1856] Castleton Festival. He has been Associate Music Director at the Houston Seit ich ihn gesehen from Frauenliebe und Leben, No. 1 Grand Opera, and has been an assistant conductor at Metropolitan RICHARD STRAUSS [1864-1949] Opera, the Salzburg Festival, Opéra National de Paris, the Canadian Seitdem dein Aug’ in meines schaute, Op. 17, No. 1 Opera Company, and the Los Angeles Opera. II. ROBERT SCHUMANN Er, der Herrlichste von allen from Frauenliebe und Leben, No. 2 SIR JOHN DANKWORTH [1927-2010] Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Sonnet No. 18 GABRIEL FAURÉ [1845-1924] Chanson d’amour from the Second Recueil, Op. 27, No. 1 NED ROREM [b. 1923] O you whom I often and silently come III. ROBERT SCHUMANN Ich kann’s nicht fassen, nicht glauben from Frauenliebe und Leben, No. 3 EDVARD GRIEG [1843-1907] Jeg elsker dig from Hjertets Melodier, Op. 5, No. 3 IV. ROBERT SCHUMANN Du Ring an meinem Finger from Frauenliebe und Leben, No. 4 GUSTAV MAHLER [1860-1911] Rheinlegendchen from Des Knaben Wunderhorn V. Ms. Graham’s earliest operatic successes were in such trouser roles ROBERT SCHUMANN as Cherubino in Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro. Her technical expertise Helft mir, ihr Schwestern from Frauenliebe und Leben, No. 5 soon brought mastery of Mozart’s more virtuosic roles, like Sesto in Mutter, Mutter, glaube nichtfrom Myrthen, Op. 25, No. 11 La Clemenza di Tito, Idamante in Idomeneo, and Cecilio in Lucio Silla, Lass mich ihm am Busen hangen from Myrthen, Op. 25, No. 12 as well as the title roles of Handel’s Ariodante and Xerxes. She went MAURICE RAVEL [1875-1937] on to triumph in two iconic Richard Strauss mezzo roles, Octavian Tout Gai! from Cinq melodies populaires grecques in Der Rosenkavalier and the Composer in Ariadne auf Naxos. These brought her to prominence on all the world’s major opera stages, VI. including the Met, Lyric Opera of Chicago, San Francisco Opera, Covent CLAUDE DEBUSSY [1862-1918] Garden, Paris Opera, La Scala, Bavarian State Opera, Vienna State La Chevelure from Les Chansons de Bilitis,No. 2, L. 97 Opera, and the Salzburg Festival, among many others. In addition to ROBERT SCHUMANN creating the role of Sister Helen Prejean at San Francisco Opera, she Süsser Freund, du blickest mich verwundert an starred in Washington National Opera’s recent revival of Dead Man from Frauenliebe und Leben, No. 6 Walking, making her triumphant role debut as the convict’s mother. She also sang the leading ladies in the Met’s world premieres of John VII. Harbison’s The Great Gatsby and Tobias Picker’s An American Tragedy, FRANCIS POULENC [1899-1963] The Le Carafon from La Courte Paille, FP 178, No. 6 and made her Dallas Opera debut as Tina in a new production of Aspern Papers by Dominick Argento. As Houston Grand Opera’s Lynn PIOTR ILLYICH TCHIAKOVSKY [1840-1893] Lullaby, Op. 16, No. 1 Wyatt Great Artist, she starred as Prince Orlofsky in the company’s first staging of Die Fledermaus in 30 years, before heading an all-star cast as ROBERT SCHUMANN An meinem Herzen, an meiner Brust Sycorax in the Met’s Baroque pastiche The Enchanted Island. Béatrice et Bénédict from Frauenliebe und Leben, No. 7 It was in an early Lyon production of Berlioz’s that Ms. Graham scored particular raves from the international press, VII. and a triumph in the title role of Massenet’s Chérubin at Covent ENRIQUE GRANADOS [1867-1916] Garden sealed her operatic stardom. Further invitations to collaborate La maja dolorosa (¡Oh muerte cruel!) on French music were forthcoming from many of its preeminent from Tonadillas en un estilo antiguo, H. 136, No. 9 conductors, including Sir Colin Davis, Charles Dutoit, James Levine and ROGER QUILTER [1877-1953] Seiji Ozawa. New productions of Gluck’s Iphigénie en Tauride, Berlioz’s How shall I your true love know? La damnation de Faust, and Massenet’s Werther were mounted for from Four Shakespeare Songs, Op. 30, No. 3 the mezzo in New York, London, Paris, Chicago, San Francisco and ROBERT SCHUMANN beyond. More recently, she made title role debuts in Offenbach’s comic Nun hast du mir den ersten Schmerz getan masterpieces La belle Hélène and The Grand Duchess of Gerolstein at from Frauenliebe und Leben, No. 8 Santa Fe Opera. Ms. Graham’s affinity for French repertoire has not been limited to the opera stage, also serving as the foundation for her extensive concert and recital career. Such great cantatas and symphonic Please note: For everyone’s safety, we require that you wear your mask a mort de Cléopâtre Les nuits d’été, at all times and that it fully covers your mouth and nose. If you should song cycles as Berlioz’s L and Ravel’s test positive for the coronavirus after attending this event, Shéhérazade and Chausson’s Poème de l’amour et de la mer provide please notify us at 215-569-8080 immediately. opportunities for collaborations with the world’s leading orchestras, We thank you for your attendance and cooperation! and she makes regular appearances with the New York Philharmonic, Boston Symphony, Orchestre de Paris and London Symphony Orchestra. Among the mezzo’s numerous honors are Musical America’s Vocalist of the Year and an Opera News Award, while Gramophone magazine has dubbed her “America’s favorite mezzo.” 1 18 ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES TEXT AND TRANSLATIONS SUSAN GRAHAM I. usan Graham has been hailed as “an artist to treasure” by the Seit ich ihn gesehen Since I saw him New York Times. She rose to the highest echelon of international from Frauenliebe und Leben, No. 1 from A Woman’s Life and Love performers within just a few years of her professional debut, ROBERT SCHUMANN S [Text by A. Chamisso (1781-1838)] mastering an astonishing range of repertoire and genres along the way. Her operatic roles span four centuries, from Monteverdi’s Poppea to Seit ich ihn gesehen, Since I saw him, Sister Helen Prejean in Jake Heggie’s Dead Man Walking, which was Glaub’ ich blind zu sein; I think I am blind; written especially for her. A familiar face at New York’s Metropolitan Wo ich hin nur blicke, Every place I look, Opera, she also maintains a strong international presence at such Seh’ ich ihn allein; I see him alone; key venues as Paris’s Théâtre du Châtelet, Santa Fe Opera, and the Hollywood Bowl. She won a Grammy Award for her collection of Ives Wie im wachen Traume As in a waking dream songs, and has also been recognized throughout her career as one of the Schwebt sein Bild mir vor, His image appears before me, foremost exponents of French vocal music. Although a native of Texas, Taucht aus tiefstem Dunkel, Rising out of darkest depths she was awarded the French government’s prestigious “Chevalier de Heller nur empor. Only more brightly. la Légion d’Honneur,” both for her popularity as a performer in France and in honor of her commitment to French music. Sonst ist licht und farblos Everything else is dark and colorless In recent seasons Ms. Graham made her role debut as Herodias Alles um mich her, All around me, in Francisco Negrin’s production of Richard Strauss’s Salome at Nach der Schwestern Spiele For my sisters’ games Houston Grand Opera and reprised her celebrated portrayal of Mrs. Nicht begehr’ ich mehr, I am no longer eager, Patrick De Rocher, mother of the convicted murderer, in Lyric Opera of Chicago’s company premiere of Dead Man Walking. In concert, Möchte lieber weinen, I would like instead to weep Still im Kämmerlein; quietly in my little room; she performed Berlioz’s La Mort de Cléopâtre and excerpts from Les Seit ich ihn gesehen, Since I saw him, Troyens with Donald Runnicles and the orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Glaub’ ich blind zu sein. I think I am blind. Berlin at the Berlin Musikfest, revisited her signature interpretation of the composer’s Les Nuits d’été with the Vancouver Symphony, and headlined the Jacksonville Symphony 2020 Gala. Other recent Seitdem dein Aug’ in meines schaute, Since your eyes first looked into mine highlights have included Ms. Graham joining Andris Nelsons and the Op. 17, No. 1 Boston Symphony for Mahler’s Third Symphony at London’s BBC RICHARD STRAUSS Proms and in Berlin, Leipzig, Vienna, Lucerne, and Paris. Making her [Text by A.
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