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discography  
photo gallery Barab             Chanticleer                               Pertelote
resume & repertory Bizet               Carmen                                     Micaela
audio Britten             Albert Herring                          Cis             

Cesti               Semiramide                               Nino      


Donizetti          Don Pasquale                           Norina
contact Dvořak            Rusalka                                     First Wood Nymph
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 		Felsenfeld         The Bloody Chamber                Sophie
Gounod           Faust                                         Marguerite

Humperdinck   Hansel and Gretel                    Sandman

Ludtke             Gaia Sophia                             Gaia
Menotti            Amahl & the Night Visitors     Mother
Menotti            The Consul                               Foreign Woman
Mozart            Così fan Tutte                           Fiordiligi
                                                                         Despina
                        The Impresario                         Miss Silverpeal
                       Le Nozze di Figaro                    Countess Almaviva
                                                                         Susanna
                       Die Zauberflöte                         Pamina
                                                                         First Lady
                                                                         Second Lady
                                                                         Papagena
Poulenc           Les Dialogues des Carmelites   Blanche
Puccini            La Bohème                                Mimì
                                                                         Musetta
                       Gianni Schicchi                         Lauretta
                                                                         Nella
                       Le Villi                                      Anna
Strauss            Ariadne auf Naxos                    Echo
Vaughan-Williams Pilgrim's Progress                   Madam Bubble



Additional Arias

Adriana: "Io sono l'umile ancella" (Adriana Lecouvreur)
Agathe: "Und ob die Wolke" (Der Freischuetz)
Diana: "Piante ombrose" (La Calisto, Cavalli)
Desdemona: "The Willow Song/ Ave Maria" (Otello)
Donna Elvira: "Ah! fuggi il traditor" (Don Giovanni)
Donna Elvira: "Mi tradi" (Don Giovanni)
Doriclea: "O delle mie speranze" (Doriclea, Cavalli)
Euryanthe: "Gloeklein im Thale" (Euryanthe, Weber)
 Frau Fluth: "Nun eilt herbei" (Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor )
Geraldine: "Who is there to love me" ( A Hand of Bridge)
Hanna Glawari: "Vilia" (The Merry Widow)
Ilia: "Se il padre perdei" (Idomeneo)
Ilia: "Zeffiretti lusinghieri" (Idomeneo)
Leila: "Comme autrefois" (Les Pêcheurs de Perles)
 Laetitia: "Steal me sweet thief" (The Old Maid and the Thief)
Liu: "Tu che di gel" (Turandot)
Magda: "Canzone di Doretta" (La Rondine)
Marenka: "Ah my darling" (The Bartered Bride)
Mathilde: "Sombre foret" (Guillaume Tell, Rossini)
Meleagro: "Care selve" (Atalanta, Handel)
Offenbach: "Ouf, quel metier que d'etre femme (Les Bavardes, Offenbach)
 Rusalka: "Song to the Moon" (in Czech) ( Rusalka)
Rosalinde: "Csardas" (Die Fledermaus)
Susannah: "Ain't it a pretty night" (Susannah)
Vitige: "Non credo instabile" (Flavio, Handel)
Volpino: "Amore nel mio petto (Lo speziale, Haydn)



Additional ensembles

Duet: Giuletta and Nicklausse ("Barcarolle," Les Contes de Hoffmann)
Duet:  Cio-Cio San and Suzuki ("Flower Duet," Madama Butterfly)
Duet: Bèatrice and Bénèdict (Nocturne, Beatrice et Benedict)
Duet: Mrs. and Mr. Ford (The Merry Wives of Windsor)
Duet: Frau Fluth and Frau Reich (Die Lustigen Weiber von Windsor)
Duet: Poppea and Nerone (Incoronazione di Poppea)
Duet: Gretel and Hansel
                ("When at night I go to sleep" Hansel and Gretel)
Duet: Donna Anna and Don Ottavio (#2, Don Giovanni)
Duet: Zerlina and Don Giovanni
                 ("La ci darem la mano," Don Giovanni)
Trio: Antonia, Voice, and Dr. Miracle (Les Contes de Hoffmann)
Trio: Rosalinde, Alfred, and Frank, Die Fledermaus)
Quartet: Marzelline ("Mir ist so wunderbar," Fidelio)
Sextet: Donna Elvira ( "Sola, sola in bujo loco," Don Giovanni)
Solo with Chorus: "A Real Slow Drag" (Treemonisha)
                             "We Will Trust You As Our Leader" (Treemonisha)
Quartet with Chorus: Marzelline (Fidelio)




SOPRANO SOLOIST
in works with orchestra, chamber
orchestra, and/or chorus
(performed unless otherwise noted)

Argento                         Six Elizabethan Songs
Bach                             Magnificat in D
                                     St. Matthew Passion (highlights)
                                     Cantata no.36         
Berlioz                          (from Les nuits d'été)
                                         Villanelle
                                          L'île inconnue
Brahms                         Requiem
Britten                           Rejoice in the Lamb
                                     Ceremony of Carols
Canteloube                    Chants d'Auvergne
Handel                          Messiah
                                     Ode to St. Cecelia
                                     Samson
                                     Solomon
Haydn                           Lord Nelson Mass (Missa in angustiis)
                                      Missa in Tempore Belli (Pauken Messe) (prepared)
Larsen                           Sonnets from the Portuguese
Ludtke                          Christmas Cantata
                                     Christmas Suite
Mahler                           Symphony no.4
                                     Um schlimme Kinder artig zu machen
                                      Wer hat das Liedlein erdacht
Messiaen                       Suite from St. François d' Assise (covered)
Mozart                          Exsultate Jubilate (excerpt)
                                     Requiem (in preperation)
                                     Vesperae solennes
Purcell                           Ode to St. Cecelia
Ravel                             La Flute enchantée (from Schéhérezade)
Rorem                           Homer
Rossini                           Stabat mater
Saint-Saens                   Christmas Oratorio
Schubert                        Mass in Ab (prepared)
Strauss                          Orchestral Songs:
                                          Ach, Lieb ich muss nun scheiden
                                          Allerseelen
                                          Heimliche Aufforderung
                                          Nacht
                                          Schlagende Herzen
                                          Schlechtes Wetter
                                          Ständchen
                                          Zeitlose
                                          Zueignung
Stravinsky                      Persephone (speaking voice, prepared)
Villa-Lobos                    Bachianas Brasilieras No.5: Aria





Works with Chamber Ensemble
(performed)

Barber                         Dover Beach
Caplet                          Viens! Une flute invisible
Chausson                     Chanson perpetuelle
Debussy                       Bilitis (speaking voice)
David Diamond            The mad maid's song (1960)
Margaret Garwood      Six Japanese songs (1988)
Gaubert                       Soir paen
Honegger                     Trois chansons extraites de "La Petite
                                          Sirene" d'Andersen
Ludtke                         Four Songs (1996)
                                    Li Bai Songs (2000)
                                    Trees (1998)   
Previn                          Four Songs for Voice, Cello, and Piano (1994)
Ravel                           Chansons Madecasses
Talma                          Thirteen ways of looking at a blackbird (1979)
 Vinaccesi                      Su la sponda d'un rio
                                    Ingratissima Clori