Leading Dramatic Soprano
Deborah Voigt returns to Harriman-Jewell Series to
sing recital
WHO: DEBORAH VOIGT, soprano in recital; Brian
Zeger, pianist
WHEN: FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30, at
8 p.m.
PRESENTED
BY: HARRIMAN-JEWELL SERIES
WHERE: FOLLY THEATER, downtown Kansas
City, Mo. (12th and Central Sts.)
TICKETS: remaining seats are $25, $40,
$55, $70—order online at hjseries.org or
call 816-415-5025 for assistance.
PROGRAM: arias by Richard Wagner (from Die
Walküre and Tannhauser) and Giacomo
Puccini (from Tosca) and songs
by Amy Beach, Ottorino
Respighi, Richard Strauss, Benjamin
Moore, and Leonard Bernstein (including
"Somewhere" from West Side
Story)
full
program list
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credit: Dario Acosta
 Celebrated
American soprano Deborah Voigt will
sing a recital
on Friday,
October 30, at 8 p.m. at the Folly
Theater (12th
and Central Sts.) in downtown Kansas City. The
opera superstar has selected
a delightful program that includes arias
by Richard Wagner (from Die
Walküre and Tannhauser)
and Giacomo Puccini (from Tosca)
and songs by Amy Beach, Ottorino
Respighi, Richard
Strauss, Benjamin
Moore, and Leonard
Bernstein (including
"Somewhere" from West Side
Story).
Since her Harriman-Jewell Series debut
in 2000, Voigt has gained worldwide attention as one
of today’s most esteemed interpreters of the
dramatic opera roles of Strauss and Wagner.
Deborah Voigt has received accolades in
such Italian roles as Amelia, Aida, Lady Macbeth, Tosca,
and Leonora (in both La forza del destino and Il
trovatore), and as Cassandre in Berlioz’s Les
Troyens. Her discography of complete operas
ranges from Tristan und Isolde to Les
Troyens and Die Frau ohne Schatten. Her
solo discs for EMI Classics are All My
Heart (songs
by American composers) and the best-selling Obsessions,
with arias and scenes by Wagner and Strauss.
A devotee of Broadway
and American song, Voigt
has given acclaimed performances of popular fare,
including benefit concerts for Broadway Cares/Equity
Fights AIDS and New York Theatre Workshop. In
2004 she sang “America the Beautiful” on
NBC’s broadcast of Macy’s Independence
Day fireworks show, and she took part in Macy’s
Thanksgiving Day parade.
Voigt’s numerous awards and honors
include France’s Chevalier dans
l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and first
prizes in Moscow’s
Tchaikovsky Competition and Philadelphia’s Luciano
Pavarotti International Voice Competition. Deborah
Voigt
was Musical America’s Vocalist
of the Year 2003 and received a 2007
Opera News Award for distinguished
achievement in the art form.
Voigt’s
2009-2010 season began and will end with Puccini: She
opened the Lyric
Opera of Chicago season as Tosca, and
will perform her role debut as Minnie in La fanciulla
del West (The
Girl of the Golden West) in her long-awaited return
to San Francisco. Other opera season
highlights include Arnold Schoenberg’s Gurrelieder,
with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra under
Mariss Jansons; two of her signature roles—Chrysothemis
in Strauss’s Elektra and Senta in Wagner’s Fliegende
Holländer—at the Metropolitan
Opera in New York City; and Wagner’s Tristan
und Isolde at Barcelona’s Gran Teatre
del Liceu. Next
summer, she repeats her highly regarded Salome at
Switzerland’s Verbier Festival with
Valery Gergiev and at Japan’s Saito Kinen
Festival with Seiji
Ozawa.
[Additional biographical information is available at www.deborahvoigt.com]
Remaining tickets for the Deborah
Voigt recital are
priced $25, $40, $55, and $70, and can be ordered
online at hjseries.org or
by phone at 816-415-5025. Mrs. Esther Loeb
sponsors this performance.
Now in its 45th season, the
nationally recognized Harriman-Jewell Series brings
acclaimed performers from the worlds of music, dance,
and theatre to Kansas City’s downtown
venues. In addition to the performances, Educational
Events offer free master classes and lectures to allow
area community members and students to view artists in
an informal setting. Financial support for the 2009-2010
season has been provided by the Missouri Arts Council,
a state agency.
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