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vocal repertoire

art songs
Thomas Adès

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Luigi Arditi

Dominick Argento

Milton Babbitt

Alfred Bachelet

Ernst Bacon

Juhi Bansal

​Jason Barabba

Samuel Barber



Vincenzo Bellini


Alban Berg

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Luciano Berio

Hector Berlioz

Leonard Bernstein

​Chester Biscardi

William Bolcom
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Joshua Bornfield

Lili Boulanger


Johannes Brahms








Benjamin Britten






Jason Robert Brown

John Cage



Christopher Cerrone

Ernest Chausson

Aaron Copland

Claude Debussy







Léo Delibes

Edison Denisov

Nicholas Deyoe

Gaetano Donizetti


John Duke


Henry Duparc








Antonín Dvořák

Manuel de Falla

Gabriel Fauré



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Henryk Górecki

Edvard Grieg


Charles Griffes


John Harbison

​Rocco Harris

Jake Heggie


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Charles Ives








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​Jesse Jones
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Amy Beth Kirsten

Oliver Knussen

Helmut Lachenmann

​David Lang

Libby Larsen


Nicola LeFanu

Witold Lutoslawski

Gustav Mahler



Olivier Messiaen



Darius Milhaud

Xavier Montsalvatge


Modest Mussorgsky

John Musto


Nick Alex Norton

Fernando Obradors

Hans Pfitzner

Francis Poulenc




Sergei Prokofiev

Henry Purcell



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Sergei Rachmaninov

Damjan Rakonjac

Ottorino Respighi 

Joaquin Rodrigo

Daniel Rothman

Ned Rorem


Camille Saint-Saëns

Erik Satie

​Arnold Schoenberg




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Franz Schubert
















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Clara Schumann
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Robert Schumann





Wolfgang von Schweinitz

Valentin Silvestrov

Richard Strauss




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Chinary Ung

Richard Valitutto

William Walton

Peter Warlock

Anton von Webern


Kurt Weill





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Hugo Wolf 

Five Eliot Landscapes, Op. 1 [1990]
Life Story, Op. 8a [1994]

Il bacio

Six Elizabethan Songs [1958]

The Widow's Lament in Springtime [1951]

Chère nuit

Songs at Parting [1930]

Begin [2016] *premiere

Falling [2014] *premiere

Nocturne, Op. 13 No. 1
Sure on this Shining Night, Op. 13 No. 3
The Crucifixion, Op. 29 No. 5 (from Hermit Songs)

Il fervido desiderio
Il zeffiro

Nacht (from Sieben Frühe Lieder)
Sommertage (from Sieben Frühe Lieder)

Quattro Canzoni popolari [1946 rev. 1973]

Villanelle (from Les nuits d'été​)

Arias and Barcarolles [1988] for mezzo-soprano, baritone, and piano duet

The Gift of Life [1990-93]

​Over the Piano (from Cabaret Songs)
Surprise (from Cabaret Songs)
Waitin' (from Cabaret Songs)
George (from Cabaret Songs)

The Tyger *premiere
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Un poète disait (from Clarières dans le ciel)
Si tout ceci n'est qu'un pauvre rêve (from Clarières dans le ciel)

Die Mainacht, Op. 43 No. 2
Meine Liebe ist grün, Op. 63 No. 5
Geheimnis, Op. 71 No. 3
Fünf Gesänge, Op. 72
Zwei Gesänge, Op. 91 [with viola obbligato]
Sapphische Ode, Op. 94 No. 4
Wie Melodien zieht es mir, Op. 105 No. 1
Ständchen, Op. 106 No. 1

On This Island, Op. 11
A Charm of Lullabies, Op. 41
The Poet's Echo, Op. 76
Fish in the Unruffled Lakes (from Six Auden Settings)
Funeral Blues (from Cabaret Songs)
La belle est au jardin d'amour (from Folksong Arrs: France)

Christmas Lullaby (from Songs for a New World​)

A Flower
Nowth Upon Nacht
The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs

I will learn to love a person [2013] *West Coast premiere 

Dans la forêt du charme et de l'enchantement, Op. 36 No. 2

I bought me a cat (from Old American Songs)

Beau soir
Pantomime (from Quatre chansons de jeunesse)
C’est l’extase langoureuse (from Ariettes oubliées)
Il pleure dans mon coeur (from Ariettes oubliées)
L'ombre des arbres (from Ariettes oubliées)
Fantoches (from Fêtes galantes II)
De soir (from Proses lyriques)

Les filles des Cadix

Ton image charmante [1982]

5 McCallum Songs [2011] *NY premiere

Eterno amore e fè
La ninna nanna

A Piper
Loveliest of Trees

Chanson triste
Extase
La fuite
L'Invitation au voyage
Sérénade florentine
Soupir
La vague et la cloche
La vie antérieure

Moravian Duets, Op. 32

Siete canciones populares españolas

L'absent, Op. 5 No. 3
​Notre amour, Op. 23 No. 2
Clair de lune, Op. 46 No. 2
Mandoline, Op. 58 No. 1
Puisque l'aube grandit (from La bonne chanson, Op. 61)
​La lune blanche luit dans les bois (from La bonne chanson, Op. 61)

Dwie Piesni Sakralne, Op. 30b [1971]

Ein Traum, Op. 48 No. 6
Ved Gjætle-Bekken (from Haugtussa, Op. 67)

Symphony in Yellow
Three Poems of Fiona Macleod, Op. 11

Simple Daylight [1988]

Three Haiku Songs
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Not in a silver casket (from Songs and Sonnets to Ophelia [1999])
Of Gods and Cats [2000]
Friendly Persuasions [2008]

Berceuse
Charlie Rutlage
The Children’s Hour
The Greatest Man
​The Mists
There is a Lane
The Things our Fathers Loved
Walt Whitman
The World’s Highway

​Margaret [2011]

To See What I See [2006]
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Whitman Settings, Op.25 [1991]

Got Lost [2007/08]

Ark Luggage [2012]
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Cowboy Songs [1994]
Love after 1950 [2000]

A Penny for a Song [1981]

Nie dla ciebie [1981]

Blicke mir nicht in die Lieder (from Rückert Lieder)
Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen (from Rückert Lieder​)
Liebst du um Schönheit (from Rückert Lieder​)

Pourquoi? (from Trois Mélodies)
Le collier (from Poèmes pour Mi)
Résurrection (from Chants de terre et de ciel)

Chansons de Ronsard, Op. 233 [1940]

Canción de cuna para dormir a un negrito (from Canciones negras)
Canto negro (from Canciones negras)

Serenada (from Songs and Dances of Death)

Could be (from Shadow of the Blues)
Maybe (from Dove Sta Amore)

Song for Justine and Richard (on a lyric by Conor Oberst) [2015] *premiere​

Al amor (from Canciones clásicas españolas)

Die Einsame, Op. 9 No. 2

Fiançailles pour rire
Tel jour, telle nuit
Deux mélodies de G. Apollinaire
Les chemins de l'amour

Cinq mélodies, Op. 35b

Lead me to Some Peaceful Gloom
Lost is My Quiet (arr. Britten)
Music for a While
What can We Poor Females Do? (arr. Britten)

Vocalise, Op. 34 No. 14

Rêveur: Three Rimbaud Settings [2011] *premiere

 Crepuscolo (from Deità Silvane)

De dónde venís, amore? (from Cuatro madrigales amatorios)

Brautigan Settings [2007] *premiere

The Lordly Hudson
Pippa's Song

Aimons-nous

Portrait de Socrate (from Socrate)

Galathea (from Brettl-Lieder)
Gigerlette (from Brettl-Lieder​)
Der genügsame Liebhaber (from Brettl-Lieder​)
Einfältiges Lied (from Brettl-Lieder​)
Seit ich so viele Weiber sah (from Brettl-Lieder​)
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Gretchen am Spinnrade, D. 118
Heidenröslein, D. 257
Lied der Mignon, D. 359
Seligkeit, D. 433
Der Tod und das Mädchen, D. 531
Ganymed, D. 544
Versunken, D. 715
Suleika I, D. 720
Nachtviolen, D. 752
Aus 'Heliopolis.' II, D. 754
Schwestergruß, D. 762
Wehmut, D. 772
Dass sie hier gewesen, D. 775
Du bist die Ruh, D. 776
​Der Einsame, D. 800
Nacht und Träume, D. 827
Im Frühling, D. 882
Auf dem Strom, D. 943 [with horn obbligato]
Der Hirt auf dem Felsen, D. 965 [with clarinet obbligato]

Er ist gekommen, Op. 12 No. 1
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Schöne Wiege meiner Leiden, Op. 24 No. 5
Widmung, Op. 25 No. 1
Liederkreis, Op. 39 [Eichendorff]
Die feindlichen Brüder, Op. 49 No. 2
Belsatzar, Op. 57

O-Ton "Automne" – Linguistikherbst, Op. 35 [1996] for soprano and piano duet *US premiere

Silent Songs [1974-77] (complete)

Zueignung, Op. 10 No. 1
Nacht, Op. 10 No. 3
Breit' über mein Haupt, Op. 19 No. 2
Cäcilie, Op. 27 No. 2
Morgen, Op. 27 No. 4
Traum durch die Dämmerung, Op. 29 No. 1
Ich schwebe, Op. 48 No. 2
Drei Ophelia Lieder, Op. 67 Nos. 1-3
Amor (from Brentano Lieder, Op. 68)

Interlude from Rising Light [2009-10] *premiere

you are [2012] *premiere

The Contrast (from A Song for the Lord Mayor's Table)

Sleep

Acht frühe Lieder [1901-03]
Drei Lieder, Op. 25 [Hildegard Jone, 1934–35]

Alabama Song (from Mahoganny)
As You Make Your Bed (from Mahoganny)
I'm a Stranger Here Myself (from One Touch of Venus)
Lost in the Stars (from Lost in the Stars​)
Mr. Right (from Love Life)
Surabaya Johnny (from Happy End)

Der Knabe und das Immlein
Die verlassene Mägdlein
In dem Schatten meiner Locken
Im Frühling

operas // arias // scenes
John Adams


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Vincenzo Bellini


Alban Berg

Leonard Bernstein


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Georges Bizet




Benjamin Britten


Pyotr Ilyich Chaykovsky



Christopher Cerrone

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Unsuk Chin

George Friedrich Handel



Arthur Honegger

Libby Larsen

Anne LeBaron

Ruggero Leoncavallo

Jules Massenet

Missy Mazzoli

Gian Carlo Menotti



Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart














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Jacques Offenbach

Giacomo Puccini






Jean-Phillipe Rameau

Maurice Ravel

Ottorino Respighi

Nikolaj Rimsky-Korsakov

Gioacchino Rossini




Camille Saint-Saëns

​Elzbieta Sikora


Johann Strauss

Richard Strauss


Karol Szymanowski

Giuseppe Verdi
"Am I in your light?" (from Doctor Atomic)
"The Heart" (from A Flowering Tree)
Magnificat (from El Niño​)
"This is Prophetic!" (from Nixon in China)

 "Ah! non credea" (from La Sonnambula)
 "Eccomi in lieta vesti" (from I Capuleti ed i Montecchi)

"Lied der Lulu" (from Lulu)

"Glitter and Be Gay" (from Candide​)
"There is a Garden" (from Trouble in Tahiti)
"What a Movie!" (from Trouble in Tahiti)

"L'amour est un oiseau rebelle" (from Carmen)
"Je dis que rien ne m'épouvante" (from Carmen)
"Près des remparts de Séville" (from Carmen)
"Votre toast" (from Carmen)

"Injurious Hermia" (from A Midsummer Night's Dream)
"Within this frail crucible of light" (from The Rape of Lucretia)

"Куда вы удалились" [Lensky's Aria] (from Yevgeny Onegin)
"Отчего это прежде не знала" (from Iolanta)
"Я люблю вас" [Lensky's Arioso] (from Yevgeny Onegin)

INVISIBLE CITIES
The Pieces That Fall to Earth​

ALICE IN WONDERLAND

"His mighty arm" (from Jephtha)
"Piangerò, la sorte mia" (from Giulio Cesare)
"Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion" (from Messiah)

"Psaume: Ah, si j'avais des ailes de colombe" (from Le Roi David)

"Agnus Dei // Sanctus" (from Missa Gaia)

CRESCENT CITY

"Stridono lassù" (from I Pagliacci​)

"Frère! Voyez! ... Du gai soleil" (from Werther)

SONG FROM THE UPROAR

"The Black Swan" (from The Medium)
"Monica's Waltz" (from The Medium)
"Steal me, sweet thief" (from The Old Maid and the Thief)

"Ach, ich fühl's" (from Die Zauberflöte)
"Bester Jüngling" (from Der Schauspieldirektor)
"Come scoglio" (from Così fan tutte)
"Deh vieni, non tardar" (from Le nozze di Figaro)
"Durch Zärtlichkeit" (from Die Entführung aus dem Serail)
"Et incarnatus est" (from Grand Mass in C minor)
"In uomini, in soldati" (from Così fan tutte)
"Mi tradì quell' alma ingrata" (from Don Giovanni)
"No, no, no, che non sei capace" K. 419
"Padre, germani" (from Idomeneo)
"Parto, parto" (from La Clemenza di Tito)
"S'altro che lagrime" (from La Clemenza di Tito)
"Tiger! wetze nur die Klauen" (from Zaide)
"Una donna a quindici anni" (from Così fan tutte)
"Vedrai, carino" (from Don Giovanni)
"Voi, che sapete" (from Le nozze di Figaro)
"Zeffiretti lusinghieri" (from Idomeneo)
COSÌ FAN TUTTE Act I: Finale 

"Les oiseaux dans la charmille" (from Les contes d'Hoffman)

"Chi il bel sogno di Doretta" (from La Rondine)
"O mio babbino caro" (from Gianni Schicchi)
"Mi chiamano Mimì" (from La Bohème)
"Quando m'en vo" (from La Bohème)
"Tu che di gel sei cinta" (from Turandot)
La Bohème Act II: Duet [Mimì // Marcello]

"Amour, amour" (from Platée)

[Fire Aria] (from L'enfant et les sortileges)

"Pastor, voie che vegghiate" (from Lauda per la Natività del Signore)

"Великий царь..." [The Melting Aria] (from Snegurochka)

"Bel raggio lusinghier" (from Semiramide)
"Una voce poco fa" (from Il barbiere di Siviglia)
"Vedro qual sommo incanto" (from La scala di seta)
Guillaume Tell Act IV: Trio

"Mon cœur s'ouvre a ta voix" (from Samson et Dalila)

Lamento (from Madame Curie [2011])

Csárdás: "Klänge der Heimat" (from Die Fledermaus)

"Sein wir wieder gut!" [Composer's Aria] (from Ariadne auf Naxos)
[The Presentation of the Rose] (from Der Rosenkavalier)

[Roksana's Song] (from Król Roger)

"Saper vorreste" (from Un ballo in maschera)
"Sul fil d'un soffio etesio" (from Falstaff)

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