Summary of Dissertation Recitals One Opera Role and Two Vocal Music Recitals

Abstract

One operatic role and two vocal music recitals were performed in lieu of a written dissertation. Friday, November 9, 2012, 8:00pm; Saturday, November 10, 2012, 8:00pm; Sunday, November 11, 2012, 2:00pm, Power Center, University of Michigan Opera Theater. Don Giovanni by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; Robert Swedberg, director, Christopher Lees, conductor. Performed the role of Don Giovanni. Monday, April 1, 2013, 5:00pm, Stamps Auditorium, Walgreen Drama Center. Assisted by Lydia Qiu, piano. Program: “Loveliest of trees”, “When I was one and twenty”, “The Lads in their hundreds”, “Is my team ploughing”, “Bredon Hill”, and “On the idle hill of summer”, from A Shropshire Lad and Bredon Hill and Other Songs by George Butterworth; “A last song”, “My Lizard”, “In the Wilderness”, “Solitary Hotel”, and “Despite and Still” from Despite and Still and Dover Beach by Samuel Barber; “And so, goodbye”, “When I have sung my songs”, “If you only knew”, and “O lovely world” by Ernest Charles. Saturday, May 4, 2013, 8:00pm, Stamps Auditorium, Walgreen Drama Center, Assisted by Lydia Qiu, piano, Xavier Suarez, piano, and Imani Mchunu, soprano. Program: “El paño Moruno”, “Seguidilla murciana”, “Asturiana”, “Jota”, “Nana”, “Canción”, and “Polo”, from Siete Canciones Populares Españolas by Manuel de Falla; “La mi sola, Laureola”, “Al Amor”, “Con amores, la mi madre”, “Corazón, porque pasáis…”, “Del cabello más sutil”, and “El vito”, from Canciones Clasicas Españolas by Fernando Obradors; “Chacarera”, “Triste”, “Zamba”, “Arrorró”, and “Gato”, from Cinco Canciones Populares Argentinas by Alberto Ginastera; “Mi Aldea” from Los Gavilanes by Jacinto Guerrero; “Amor, vida de mi vida”, from Maravilla by Federico Moreno Torroba; “Duo de Felipe y Mari-pepa”, from La Revoltosa by Ruperto Chapí.