Dame Felicity Lott in Recital

Concerts from the Vocal Arts Society

October 27, 2008, 9:00 pm

This week's Front Row Washington concert features Dame Felicity Lott, soprano and Graham Johnson, piano, recorded May 7, 2008 at the Embassy of Austria.

Dame Felicity Lott, a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music as well as Officier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and Chevalier de l’Ordre National de la Légion d’Honneur, is internationally known as an interpreter of the great roles of Mozart and Strauss. She has performed with the world’s preeminent opera houses and orchestras, from Paris and Vienna to New York and Chicago. A founding member of The Songmakers’ Almanac, Dame Felicity has also appeared on recital stages throughout the world.

Featured performances:

• Gustav Mahler: Rückert-Lieder
• Robert Schumann
  • Widmung, Op. 25 No. 1 from ‘Myrthen’
  • Aus den “Östlichen Rosen” Op. 25 No. 25 from ‘Myrthen’
  • Liebeslied Op. 51 No. 5
  • Singet nicht in Trauertönen op. 98a
• Hugo Wolf
  • Frühling übers Jahr
  • Anakreons Grab
  • Mignon III (So lasst mich scheinen…)
  • Mignon (Kennst du das Land?)
• Songs on poems of Baudelaire:
  • Henri Duparc: L’invitation au voyage
  • Pierre Capdevielle: Je n’ai pas oublié
  • Henri Sauguet: Le Chat I
  • Claude Debussy: Le jet d’eau
  • Henri Duparc: La vie antérieure
• Songs of Noel Coward:
  • I’ll follow my secret heart
  • English Lesson
  • Nevermore
• Songs on texts of Sacha Guitry
  • Reynaldo Hahn: Air de la letter
  • Oscar Straus: Valse des adieux
  • André Messager: J’ai deux amants