Emily D’Angelo

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Emily D’Angelo / mezzosoprán
Sophia Muñoz / klavír

Kanadská mezzosopranistka Emily D‘Angelo patrí k najvýraznejším zjavom súčasného vokálneho umenia. Už ako 21-ročná debutovala v produkcii Mozartovej opery Figarova svadba na festivale v talianskom Spolete a v priebehu nasledujúcich rokov sa raketovo etablovala ako jeden z najzaujímavejších a najväčších operných talentov svojej generácie. Spievala v Metropolitnej opere v New Yorku, v Teatro alla Scala v Miláne, v Operách v Londýne, Paríži, Berlíne, Mníchove či Zürichu a presadila sa aj na prestížnych koncertných pódiách a festivaloch. V Bratislave sa Emily D’Angelo predstaví po prvýkrát, spolu s americkou klaviristkou Sophiou Muñoz. Dramaturgia koncertu bude nadväzovať na jej debutový album enargeia, ktorý vyšiel v roku 2021 vo vydavateľstve Deutsche Grammophone. Namiesto pozlátka a efektnosti, ktoré často sprevádzajú debutové nahrávky, poňala D‘Angelo svoj debut ako hlbokú poetickú výpoveď. Časť repertoáru z tohto albumu zaznie aj na koncerte v rámci festivalu Viva Musica!, ktorý sa uskutoční v nádherných priestoroch novozrekonštruovanej Slovenskej národnej galérie. Hudbu stredovekej intelektuálky a vizionárky Hildegardy z Bingenu či súčasných amerických autoriek Missy Mazzoli a Sarah Kirkland Snider doplní tvorba Arnolda Schönberga, Aarona Coplanda, Cecilie Livingston, Florence Price, Rebeccy Clarke, Fanny Mendelssohn či Randyho Newmana. Okrem sugestívnych a silných poetických textov je jednotiacim prvkom takto široko poňatej dramaturgie hudobná podoba melanchólie, pocitu túžby, smútku či beznádeje, ale aj pokory a vnútornej sily.

Program

Hildegarda z Bingenu: O frondens virga (úprava: Missy Mazzoli / Sophia Muñoz)
Schönberg: Erwartung (Vier Lieder, op. 2)
Schönberg: Schenk mir deinen goldenen Kamm (Vier Lieder, op. 2) 
Mazzoli: Hello Lord (Vespers for a New Dark Age)
Mazzoli: You Are the Dust (Song From the Uproar)
Livingston: Penelope 
Newman: Avalon – Moving Day
Kirkland-Snider: Dead Friend (Penelope) 
Kirkland-Snider: Nausicaa (Penelope) 
Newman: Wandering Boy
* * * 
Copland: Why Do They Shut Me Out of Heaven? (Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson)
Clarke: The Cloths of Heaven
Copland: The World Feels Dusty (Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson) 
Clarke: Down By the Salley Gardens 
Copland: I’ve Heard an Organ Talk (Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson) 
Price: Night  
Livingston: Moon 
Clarke: Wandrers Nachtlied 
Mendelssohn: Nachtwanderer (Sechs Lieder für eine Stimme mit Begleitung des Pianoforte, op. 7)
Clarke: The Seal Man 
Schumann: Lorelei (Romanzen und Balladen, op. 53)

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Kanadská mezzosopranistka Emily D’Angelo je podľa New York Times jednou z najvýraznejších a najžiadanejších operných speváčok súčasnosti. D’Angelo je prvou a jedinou speváčkou, ktorá získala cenu Leonarda Bernsteina v rámci festivalu Schleswig Holstein. Ako 21-ročná debutovala v postave Cherubina v Mozartovej opere Figarova svadba na festivale Spoleto dei Due Mondi, kde získala cenu Monini Prize (2016). V sezóne 2022/2023 debutovala v postave Ruggiera (Alcina) v Royal Opera House Covent Garden v Londýne, predstavila sa v hlavnej úlohe Händlovej opery Ariodante v Opere v Paríži a tiež v postave Juno v hudobnej dráme Semele v Bavorskej štátnej opere v Mníchove. Účinkovala v rámci sólových piesňových recitálov v Park Avenue Armory v New Yorku, v Toronte, Barcelone a ď. D’Angelo je laureátkou niekoľkých medzinárodných súťaží – spomeňme, napríklad, Metropolitan Opera Competition, Canadian Opera Company Competition, Innsbruck Baroque Competition. V roku 2018 sa stala prvou víťazkou, ktorá v 26-ročnej histórii speváckej súťaže Operalia získala všetky štyri hlavné ceny. Pravidelne vystupuje na svetových javiskách a spolupracuje s mnohými významnými a svetovo uznávanými orchestrami, komornými zoskupeniami a dirigentmi. Emily D’Angelo nahráva exkluzívne pre nemecké vydavateľstvo Deutsche Grammophon. Jej debutový album enargeia prezentuje hudbu od 12. do 21. storočia od autoriek ako Hildegarda z Bingenu, Hildur Guðnadóttir, Missy Mazzoli či Sarah Kirkland Snider. Rádio NPR označilo nahrávku za jeden z 50 najlepších albumov roku 2021. Podľa CBC je enargeia jedným z najlepších kanadských albumov roka 2021 a v roku 2022 získala ceny JUNO a Gramophone. Emily D’Angelo sa narodila v Toronte. Študovala na University of Toronto, v rámci Metropolitan Opera Lindemann Young Artist Development Program a Opera Company Ensemble Studio v Kanade a na Ravinia Steans Institute.

Klaviristka Sophia Muñoz je yhľadávanou partnerkou v rámci komornej hudby. Pravidelne spolupracuje so speváčkami Emily D’Angelo a Hera Hyesang Park. Je absolventkou Lindemann Young Artist Development Program pod hlavičkou Metropolitnej opery v New Yorku (2016). V rokoch 2017–2022 pôsobila v Komickej opere v Berlíne. V roku 2016 pôsobila ako asistentka dirigenta Jamesa Levina v produkcii  V predošlých sezónach pôsobila ako asistentka dirigenta v Metropolitnej Opere v produkcii Rossiniho opery Talianka v Alžíri. Ako hudobná asistentka pôsobila tiež v Opere v Dallase. V rokoch 2016/2017 pracovala pre International Womens Conducting Institute. Pravidelne účinkuje na festivale LacMus v Tremezzine, Lago di Como a spolupracuje s umelcami ako Jakub Józef Orliński, René Barbera, Jonathan Tetelmann, Rihab Chaieb, Ewa Płonka či Szymon Komasa. Sophia Muñoz študovala na Mannes School of Music – The New School v New Yorku pod vedením Cristiny Stanescu, Vlada Iftinca a Pavliny Dokovskej. Plynule hovorí anglicky, nemecky, francúzsky, taliansky a v súčasnosti sa učí po poľsky.

Emily D’Angelo / mezzo-soprano
Sophia Muñoz / piano

The Canadian mezzo-soprano Emily D’Angelo is one of the most striking phenomena in present-day vocal art. At the early age of 21, she made her debut in a production of Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro at a festival in Spoleto, and in subsequent years she became established as one of the most interesting and most considerable operatic talents of her generation. She has sung in the Metropolitan Opera in New York, Teatro alla Scala in Milan, and in opera houses in London, Paris, Berlin, and Zurich, and she has made an impact at prestigious festivals and on major concert podia. Emily D’Angelo will perform for the first time in Bratislava, together with the American pianist Sophia Muñoz. The dramaturgy of the concert will focus on her debut album enargeia, which was released in 2021 by Deutsche Grammophone. Instead of the ornamentation and affectedness that frequently accompany debut recordings, D‘Angelo has conceived her debut as a profound poetic testimony. Part of the repertoire on this album will be heard at a concert in the Viva Musica! festival, to be performed in the magnificent spaces of the newly reconstructed Slovak National Gallery. Music by the medieval intellectual and visionary Hildegard von Bingen and the contemporary American composers Missy Mazzoli and Sarah Kirkland Snider will be complemented with work by Arnold Schönberg, Aaron Copland, Cecilia Livingston, Florence Price, Rebecca Clarke, Fanny Mendelssohn, and Randy Newman. Apart from the stimulating and powerful poetic texts, the unifying element of this broadly conceived dramaturgy is a musical form of melancholia, a feeling of longing, sadness and even hopelessness, but also of humility and inner strength.

Programme

Hildegard of Bingen: O frondens virga (arr. Missy Mazzoli / Sophia Muñoz)
Schönberg: Erwartung (Vier Lieder, op. 2)
Schönberg: Schenk mir deinen goldenen Kamm (Vier Lieder, Op. 2) 
Mazzoli: Hello Lord (Vespers for a New Dark Age)
Mazzoli: You Are the Dust (Song From the Uproar)
Livingston: Penelope 
Newman: Avalon – Moving Day
Kirkland-Snider: Dead Friend (Penelope) 
Kirkland-Snider: Nausicaa (Penelope)
Newman: Wandering Boy
* * * 
Copland: Why Do They Shut Me Out of Heaven? (Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson)
Clarke: The Cloths of Heaven
Copland: The World Feels Dusty (Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson) 
Clarke: Down By the Salley Gardens 
Copland: I’ve Heard an Organ Talk (Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson) 
Price: Night  
Livingston: Moon 
Clarke: Wandrers Nachtlied 
Mendelssohn: Nachtwanderer (Sechs Lieder für eine Stimme mit Begleitung des Pianoforte, Op. 7)
Clarke: The Seal Man 
Schumann: Lorelei (Romanzen und Balladen, Op. 53)

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Hailed by the New York Times as „one of the world’s special young singers,” Emily D’Angelo has continued her meteoric rise and firmly established herself as one of the most exciting and critically acclaimed artists of her generation. Called „wondrous and powerful“ by The NY Times for her recent US recital debut, the mezzo-soprano is the first and only vocalist to have been presented with the Leonard Bernstein Award from the Schleswig Holstein Festival. A 2020 Lincoln Center Emerging Artist, one of Canada's “Top 30 Under 30” Classical Musicians, and WQXR NYC Public Radio’s “40 Under 40” singers to watch, D'Angelo made her stage debut, at only 21 years of age, as Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro at the Spoleto Festival dei Due Mondi, where she was awarded the 2016 Monini Prize. The 2022/23 season marks numerous exciting role and house debuts for Emily D’Angelo in a season almost entirely dedicated to Handel. She kicked off the season with her role debut as Ruggiero (Alcina) at Royal Opera House in London. The mezzo-soprano returned to Paris Opera for her role debut as title role in Handel’s Ariodante and finished her opera season at Munich State Opera with her role debut as Juno in the summer festival’s production of Semele. A sought-after concert and recital performer Emily D’Angelo gave her debut at Park Avenue Armory with a recital presenting songs of her debut album enargeia. She performed Mozart's Requiem in Salzburg together with the Camerata Salzburg on the anniversary of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s death and presented recitals at Koerner Hall in Toronto and at Barcelona Auditori, amongst others. Over the past seasons, Emily D’Angelo made a string of widely acclaimed role and house debuts, further cementing her status as one of today’s most sought-after performers. Highlights include her house debuts at Zurich Opera, Berlin State Opera, Royal Opera House in London, Semperoper Dresden, Bavarian State Opera, Teatro alla Scala, Metropolitan Opera New York, Paris Opera, or Festival Aix-en-Provence. D’Angelo won first prize in numerous international competitions including the Metropolitan Opera Competition, the Canadian Opera Company Competition, the George London Competition, the Gerda Lissner Competition, the Innsbruck Baroque Competition, and the Operalia Competition, where a historic win included First Prize, the Zarzuela Prize, the Birgit Nilsson Prize and Audience Prize. Emily D’Angelo is a keen recitalist and regularly performs in the world’s leading concert halls, collaborating with some of the world’s most acclaimed orchestras, ensembles, and conductors. With The English Concert and Harry Bicket, Emily D’Angelo recently made her Carnegie Hall debut as Handel’s Sersewith further concert performances in the UK and Spain. In the last season, the mezzo-soprano performed a Donizetti-Rossini program with the Prague Philharmonic at Rudolfinum Prague, and recitals at the Konserthuset Stockholm, and the Peralada Music Festival. In 2021, she recorded a recital program for the Kennedy Center Vocal Arts DC recital series for their streaming platform. In previous seasons D’Angelo has performed diverse repertoire including Stravinsky’s Pulcinellawith the Montclair Orchestra, Respighi’s Il tramonto with Quartet 212 at the Princeton University Concert Series, and the world premiere of Ana Sokolović's song cycle dawn always begins in the bones, Unsuk Chin's snagS&Snarls, and the Canadian premiere of Matthew Aucoin's The Orphic Moment at the Toronto Contemporary Music Festival. Further recital appearances include the Los Angeles SongFest Recital Series, the New York Morgan Library Recital Series, Toronto Koerner Hall, the Santa Fe Festival of Song, Teatro del Lago in Chile, and The Society for the Four Arts in Palm Beach. D'Angelo can be heard performing Vaughn Williams's Serenade to Music in a Grammy Nominated and JUNO Award-winning live recording with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra; Ravel’s Cinq mélodies populaires grecqueswith the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Centre on their album Odyssey, which was filmed and recorded at the Stavros Niarchos Cultural Center in Athens for the first ever international production of PBS Live From Lincoln Center; and in excerpts from West Side Story on The Magic of Mantovani. Emily D’Angelo is a Deutsche Grammophon exclusive recording artist. Her debut album energeia presents music from the 12^th and 21^st centuries by the composers Hildegard von Bingen, Hildur Guðnadóttir, Missy Mazzoli and Sarah Kirkland Snider, and is described by the artist herself as a “a soundworld, bound together by the multisensory ancient concept of enargeia.” It was named one of the 50 best albums of 2021 by NPR, the best Canadian classical album of 2021 by the CBC, was featured on NPR's 100 best songs of 2021, and received JUNO and Gramophone awards in 2022. Toronto-born, D'Angelo is a graduate of the University of Toronto, the Metropolitan Opera Lindemann Young Artist Development Program, the Canadian Opera Company Ensemble Studio, and the Ravinia Steans Institute.

​Sought after as a collaborative performer, pianist Sophia Munoz concertizes regularly with Emily D’Angelo and Hera Hyesang Park. A graduate of the Lindemann Young Artist Program at the Metropolitan Opera (2016), Sophia was a member of the music staff at the Komische Oper Berlin from 2017–2022, assisting in the musical preparation of operas such as Enescu’s Oedipe (2021), Shostakovich’s Die Nase (2018, 2021), and Henze’s The Bassarids under Vladimir Jurowski (2019). Past seasons include Assistant Conductor at the Metropolitan Opera for L’Italiana in Algieri (2016) under James Levine, music staff at the Dallas Opera for La Traviata (2017) under Carlo Montanaro, Der Ring of Polykrates by Korngold (2018) and Norma, both under Emmanuel Villaume (2017), and the International Women's Conducting Institute (2016, 2017). She accompanied the 2021 Deutsche Grammophon’s Yellowlounge celebrating International Women’s Day with Nadine Sierra, Hera Hyesang Park, and Bomsori Kim, and was featured on Hope@Home broadcast on ARTE (2020). She is a frequent guest artist at the LacMus Festival in Tremezzina, Lago di Como. In addition, Sophia has performed recitals with artists including Jakub Józef Orliński, René Barbera, Jonathan Tetelman, Rihab Chaieb, Ewa Płonka, and Szymon Komasa. Sophia received her MM (2014) and BM (2012) from Mannes School of Music – The New School in New York where she studied with Cristina Stanescu, Vlad Iftinca, and Pavlina Dokovska, who continued the training she received from her formative teacher, Jura Margulis. She speaks English, German, French, Italian, and is studying Polish.

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