repertoryphoto by Russ Fischella

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athena
 Roles performed and/or prepared
discography  
photo gallery Barab              Chanticleer                               Pertelote
resume & repertory Bizet               Carmen                                    Micaela
audio Britten            Albert Herring                          Cis             
voice lessons Cesti               Semiramide                               Nino      

athena translations Donizetti        Don Pasquale                            Norina
contact Dvořak            Rusalka                                    First Wood Nymph
home
 Gounod          Faust                                        Marguerite

Humperdinck   Hansel and Gretel                   Sandman

Ludtke             Gaia Sophia                            Gaia
Menotti            Amahl & the Night Visitors    Mother
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



Additional Arias

Adriana: "Io sono l'umile ancella" (Adriana Lecouvreur)
Agathe: "Und ob die Wolke" (Der Freischuetz)
Desdemona: "The Willow Song/ Ave Maria" (Otello)
Donna Elvira: "Ah! fuggi il traditor" (Don Giovanni)
Donna Elvira: "Mi tradi" ( Don Giovanni)
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)
 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)



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: 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
Barber                          Knoxville Summer of 1915 (in preparation)                 
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                           The Creation (prepared)
                                      Lord Nelson Mass (Missa in angustiis)
                                       Missa in Tempore Belli (Pauken Messe) (prepared)
Larsen                           Sonnets from the Portuguese
Ludtke                          Christmas Suite
Mahler                          Symphony no.4
                                      Um schlimme Kinder artig zu machen
                                      Wer hat das Liedlein erdacht
Messiaen                       Suite from St. François d' Assise
Mozart                          Exsultate Jubilate (excerpt)
                                      Requiem
Purcell                          Ode to St. Cecelia
Ravel                             La Flute enchantée (from Schéhérezade)
Rorem                           Homer
Saint-Saens                  Christmas Oratorio
Schubert                       Mass in Ab
Strauss                          Orchestral Songs:
                                          Ach, Lieb ich muss nun scheiden
                                          Allerseelen
                                          Heimliche Aufforderung
                                          Nacht
                                          Schlagende Herzen
                                          Schlechtes Wetter
                                          Ständchen
                                          Zeitlos e
                                          Zueignung
Stravinsky                      Les Noces
                                       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)