Great Artists Series 18-19: Tamara Mumford, mezzo-soprano and Adam Nielsen, piano

"Ms. Mumford was revelatory. Vocally she was secure throughout her range, with dusky depths and ringing heights" -New York Times

Tamara Mumford, mezzo-soprano and Adam Nielsen, piano
 

March 21, 2019 at 7:30 P.M.

Edison Box Office: 314-935-6543

Program:

GIOACHINO ROSSINI (1792-1868)
Giovanna D'Arco

CLAUDE DEBUSSY (1862-1918)
Chansons de Bilitis
     1.  La Flûte de Pan 
     2.  La Chevelure
     3.  Le Tombeau des naïades


HUGO WOLF (1860-1903)
Nimmersatte Liebe
In dem Schatten meiner Locken 
Kennst du das Land


INTERMISSION 

SERGEI RACHMANINOFF (1873-1943)
How Few The Joys, Op. 14, No. 3
Morning, Op. 4, No. 2
All Once I Gladly Owned, Op. 26, No. 2
In the Silent Night, Op. 4, No. 3

MANUEL DE FALLA (1876 - 1946)

Siete Canciones Populares Espanolas
    
     No. 1. El Paño Moruno
     No. 2. Seguidilla murciana 
    
     No. 3. Asturiana 
    
     No. 4. Jota 
    
     No. 5. Nana 
    
     No. 6. Canción 
    
     No. 7. Polo

WILLIAM BOLCOM (b. 1938)
Selections from Cabaret Songs 
     Lady Luck 
     Angels are the Highest Form of Virtue
     Blue 
     Amor
 
 

Biography:

This season, mezzo-soprano Tamara Mumford returns to the Metropolitan Opera for Die Zauberflöte, appears in concert with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the National Symphony Orchestra, and the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, and will be presented in recital by the Frick Collection in New York. She also appears in two special projects with the Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic: performances of Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde in a production by Yuval Sharon and the Chilean theater group Teatrocinema, and performances of Schumann’s Paradies un die Peri directed by Peter Sellars. This summer, Ms. Mumford will appear as the title role of Rossini’s Tancredi at Teatro Nuov and in concerts with La Jolla Music Society. Next season, she will return to the Metropolitan Opera for Wagner’s Das Rheingold and Götterdämmerung, and will appear in concerts with the Cleveland Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, and the Berlin Philharmonic both in Berlin in and on tour in Asia.

A graduate of the Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program, Ms. Mumford made her debut there as Laura in Luisa Miller, and has since appeared in more than 140 performances with the company, some of which include the Pilgrim in the new production of Kajia Saariaho's L'Amour de loin, Smeaton in the new production of Anna Bolena, and in productions of Rigoletto, Ariadne auf Naxos,  Il Trittico, Parsifal, Idomeneo, Cavalleria Rusticana, Nixon in China, The Queen of Spades,  the complete Ring Cycle, The Magic Flute, A Midsummer Night's Dream and Wozzeck.   Other recent opera engagements have included the first ever American performances of  Rossini's Aureliano in Palmira at the Caramoor Festival, L'Amour de loin at the Festival d'opéra de Québec, Iolante at the Dallas Opera, the title role in the American premiere of Henze’s Phaedra,  the title role in The Rape of Lucretia, and the world premiere of Daniel Schnyder's Yardbird at Opera Philadelphia;  the title role in Dido and Aeneas at the Glimmerglass Festival,  Ottavia in L'incoronazione di Poppea at the Glyndebourne Opera Festival and the BBC Proms, Orsini in Lucrezia Borgia at the Caramoor Festival , Isabella in L’Italiana in Algeri at the Palm Beach Opera, the title role in The Rape of Lucretia, conducted by Lorin Maazel at the Castleton Festival; the title role in Carmen at the Crested Butte Music Festival, Principessa in Suor Angelica and Ciesca in Gianni Schicchi with the Orchestra Sinfonica Giuseppe Verdi di Milano in Italy; and the title role in La Cenerentola at Utah Festival Opera.

Also an active concert performer and recitalist, Ms Mumford appeared with Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra in US and European tours of the world premiere of John Adam’s oratorio, The Gospel According to the Other Mary. She also toured the US and Europe with Mo. Dudamel and the LAPO in performances of Mahler Symphony No. 3. Other concert engagements have included appearances with the New York Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, Dallas Symphony, Utah Symphony, Oregon Symphony, and Milwaukee Symphony orchestras, the Netherland Radio Philharmonic, and at the Hollywood Bowl and the Ravinia, Tanglewood, Grand Teton, Vail, Tucson Desert Song, Britt and La Jolla Summer Music festivals.  She made her Carnegie Hall debut in 2005 as part of the Richard Good and Friends concert series in Zankel Hall, and has since appeared there with James Levine and the Met Chamber Orchestra. She has also made multiple appearances in the Musicians from Marlboro's summer festivals and US tours. In recital she has been presented in New York by both the Marilyn Horne Foundation and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and in Philadelphia by the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society.

Ms. Mumford has appeared in the Metropolitan Opera’s Met: Live in HD series broadcasts of Anna Bolena, Das Rheingold, Gotterdämmerung, The Magic Flute, Nixon in China, Manon Lescaut, and Il Trittico.  Her recordings include Handel's Messiah with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir (Momon Tabernacle Choir), Beethoven's Cantata on the Death of Emperor Joseph II with Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony (Avie), and John Adams’ The Gospel According to the Other Mary with Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic (Deutsche Grammophon). She was and was one of sixteen singers invited to work with Naxos Records and Yale University in a collaborative project to record the complete songs of Charles Ives.  

A native of Sandy, Utah, Ms. Mumford holds a Bachelors of Music from Utah State University and has received awards from the Opera Index Competition, Palm Beach Opera Competition, Sullivan Foundation, Connecticut Opera Guild Competition, Joyce Dutka Foundation Competition and the MacAllister Awards.

**All programs subject to change.

Financial assistance for this project has been provided by the Missouri Arts Council, a state agency.  www.missouriartscouncil.org

 
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