University of Toronto Faculty of Music presents: 2024 John R. Stratton Visitor in Music: Edith Wiens, soprano Master Class: Songs and Arias

2024 John R. Stratton Visitor in Music: Edith Wiens, soprano
Master Class: Songs and Arias

Featuring singers from the Faculty of Music with pianist Timothy Cheung.

The Tuesday Voice Series is made possible in part by a generous gift from Dianne W. Henderson.

PROGRAM

Welcome: Ryan McClelland, Acting Dean of Music

Ach, ich fühl's (Die Zauberflöte K. 620)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)

I Go, I Go to Him (The Rake's Progress)
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)
Erica Harvey, soprano

All'afflitto è dolce il pianto (Roberto Devereux)
Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848)

Faites-lui mes aveux (Faust)
Charles Gounod (1818-1893)
Kcenia Koutorjevski, mezzo-soprano 

O du mein holder Abendstern (Tannhäuser)
Richard Wagner (1813-1883)

Chanson épique (Don Quichotte à Dulcinée M. 84, No. 2)
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
Dante Mullin Santone, baritone

Urlicht (Symphony No. 2, No. IV) 
Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)

But Who May Abide (Messiah)
George Frideric Händel (1685-1759)
Nicole Percifield, mezzo-soprano

Come dal ciel precipita (Macbeth) 
Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) 

Erstarrung (Winterreise D. 911, No. 4)
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Owen Phillipson, bass-baritone 

Die Liebende schreibt (Sechs Gesänge Op. 86, No. 3) 
Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (1809-1847)

Porgi, amor (Le nozze di Figaro)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Brooke Zarubin, soprano

Alternate: Mohnblumen (Mädchenblumen Op. 22, No. 2)
Richard Strauss (1864-1949)

Пускай погибну я [Excerpt] (Eugene Onegin)
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) 
Helena Webster, soprano

BIOGRAPHY

The soprano Edith Wiens has collaborated with the world’s foremost conductors - Kurt Masur, Daniel Barenboim, Sir Colin Davis, Charles Dutoit - and their orchestras. Her operatic appearances included principal Mozart roles at La Scala with Sir Georg Solti, Glyndebourne with Bernard Haitink, Amsterdam with Nikolaus Harnoncourt and Tokyo with Seiji Ozawa. Renowned as a recitalist, Edith Wiens sang often in the Musikverein Vienna and in the Wigmore Hall of London.

Edith Wiens is Faculty Emeritus of the Juilliard School in New York, where she served as Chair of the voice faculty. As founder and director of the Internationale Meistersinger Akademie (IMA) and as Artist-in-Residence at the Royal Academy in London and Visiting Professor at the Royal College of London, and as the regular teacher of young artist programs in the opera-houses of Munich, Frankfurt, Warsaw, and Amsterdam, among others, her passion for teaching is unabated. Her students can be heard world-wide in many major opera houses and festivals.

Edith Wiens is an Officer of the Order of Canada and the recipient of several honorary doctorate degrees.

Named for a great collector of vocal music and historical recorded sound, the John R. Stratton Visitor in Music brings distinguished specialists in the field of voice, opera, and collaborative piano to the Faculty of Music. We are grateful to Stephen Clarke, trustee of the Stratton Estate for his generous support of the Faculty of Music.

We wish to acknowledge this land on which the University of Toronto operates. For thousands of years it has been the traditional land of the Huron-Wendat, the Seneca, and the Mississaugas of the Credit. Today, this meeting place is still the home to many Indigenous people from across Turtle Island and we are grateful to have the opportunity to work on this land.

As part of the Faculty’s commitment to improving Indigenous inclusion, we call upon all members of our community to start/continue their personal journeys towards understanding and acknowledging Indigenous peoples’ histories, truths and cultures. Visit indigenous.utoronto.ca to learn more.