Please join us for a free recital titled Frauenliebe, here at the Baumann Centre. Civic Artist in Residence Nicole Ross will explore a program that combines Schumann’s iconic Frauen-Liebe und Leben cycle and Sappho: Tell everyone by Danika Lorèn. Though these two works are very contrasting, they explore many of the same themes such as: love, loss, innocence, and betrayal.
“On a larger level, I am interested in exploring how recital narratives can enable singers to bring new stories to life onstage. By combining Frauen-Liebe und Leben and Sappho: Tell everyone, I hope to explore a more three dimensional telling of a woman’s life and love.”
Quote from composer:
Danika Lorèn: “Sappho’s texts are so moving without music, and the potent simplicity of her words is what I focused on in my musical interpretation. This is most clearly evoked in the vulnerable intensity of many a cappella vocal lines and improvisatory moments, the sparse, single-hand piano texture that is also meant to represent a lyre, and the way voices intermingle in a largely treble sound world. In these songs I hope to create a place for the queer feminine to live and be celebrated in/through classical music; for it to be truly seen for all of its intensity, its sincerity and its sweetness.”
This season, soprano Nicole Ross joins Pacific Opera Victoria for a Civic Engagement Residency. Her opera credits include Flora in The Turn of the Screw (Opera McGill) and Musetta in La Bohème (Lunenburg Academy of Music Performance), Suzanne in La Croisade des Dames (Opera McGill), and Grace Davis in Street Scene (Opera McGill). Nicole has a keen interest in contemporary classical music, and has performed The Blind Woman (James Rolfe) and Miss Quickly (Iman Habibi) with Tapestry Opera, and sang the role of Raccoon in the first musical workshop of Raccoon Opera by Rebecca Gray with Musique 3 Femmes.
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