40 2014 Program Notes, Book 3
CARLOS KALMAR’s
biography can be found on page 16.
CHRISTOPHER BELL’s
biography can be found on page 18.
Soprano
CHRISTINE GOERKE
, recipient of the 2001
Richard Tucker Award, has appeared in the major opera
houses of the world, including the Metropolitan Opera,
Lyric Opera of Chicago, San Francisco Opera, Washington
National Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Seattle Opera,
Opera Company of Philadelphia, New York City Opera,
Glimmerglass Opera, Royal Opera House Covent Garden,
Paris Opéra, Théâtre du Châtelet, Deutsche Oper Berlin,
La Scala, Maggio Musical Fiorentio, Teatro Real (Madrid),
and Saito Kinen Festival. She recently made her role
debut as Brünnhilde in concert performances of
Die Walküre
with the New
Zealand Symphony Orchestra. Ms. Goerke has also appeared with the New
York Philharmonic, Boston Symphony, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Cleveland
Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, National Symphony Orchestra, New
World Symphony, Houston Symphony, Sydney Symphony and Orchestra of the
Age of Enlightenment. Her Telarc recordings with Robert Shaw and the Atlanta
Symphony include Brahms’
Liebeslieder Waltzes
, Poulenc’s
Stabat Mater
,
Szymanowski’s
Stabat Mater
, and the Grammy-nominated recording of Dvorˇ
ák’s
Stabat Mater
. Her recording of Vaughan Williams’
A Sea Symphony
with
Robert Spano and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra won the 2003 Grammy
Awards for Best Classical Recording and Best Choral Performance. Christine
Goerke’s upcoming engagements include her first fully staged performances of
Brünnhilde in
Die Walküre
at the Canadian Opera Company and Houston Grand
Opera, and the full Ring Cycle at Lyric Opera of Chicago, Metropolitan Opera,
Canadian Opera Company and Houston Grand Opera.
American mezzo-soprano
JILL GROVE
attended the Music
Academy of the West, New England Conservatory and
Stephen F. Austin State University and was a member of the
Merola Program at San Francisco Opera and the Houston
Grand Opera Studio. Her many honors include the 2003
ARIA award, a 2001 Richard Tucker Foundation Career
Grant, a 1999 George London Foundation Career Grant, a
1997 Sullivan Foundation Career Grant, and a 1995 Richard
F. Gold Career Grant. Among Ms. Grove’s international
operatic engagements are Lyric Opera of Chicago (with
whom she made her role debut as Jezibaba in
Rusalka
during the 2013-2014
season), San Diego Opera, New Orleans Opera, Munich Staatsoper, San
Francisco Opera, Los Angeles Opera, Canadian Opera Company, Théâtre du
Châtelet (Paris), Welsh National Opera, and Teatro Carlo Felice (Genoa). At the
Metropolitan Opera she has been seen in
Götterdämmerung
,
Das Rheingold
,
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
,
Andrea Chénier
,
Mefistofele
,
Otello
,
Die
Fliegende Holländer
,
Peter Grimes
,
Die Ägyptische Helena
and
Giulio Cesare
.
Jill Grove has appeared in concert with the orchestras of Tucson, Calgary, Utah,
Ottawa, Los Angeles, New York, Washington, D.C., Atlanta, Houston, Toronto,
San Francisco, Amsterdam and Minnesota. Her recordings include
Un Ballo
in Maschera
(Chandos),
Peter Grimes
(London Symphony Orchestra Live in
concert),
Die Ägyptische Helena
(Teldec),
La Cenerentola
(Decca/London)
and the Metropolitan Opera DVDs of
Peter Grimes
and
Die Meistersinger von
Nürnberg
(both on Deutsche Grammophon).
Friday, June 27 and Saturday, June 28,
2014
