Recital Series
Emily D'Angelo
Emily D'Angelo Mezzo-Soprano
Sophia Muñoz Pianist
September 16, 2022 - September 18, 2022
Board of Officers Room
Internationally recognized Emily D’Angelo has made a name for herself as a trailblazing artist with her ongoing collaborations with some of today’s most prolific contemporary composers. A recipient of a 2020 Lincoln Center Emerging Artist Award, the Birgit Nilsson Prize, and the Monini Prize from the Spoleto Festival dei Due Mondi, D’Angelo makes her North American solo recital debut with pianist Sophia Muñoz in a program of highlighted pieces from her debut album enargeia on Deutsche Grammophon, including songs by Sarah Kirkland Snider, Missy Mazzoli, and Hildegard von Bingen. The program also features works by other noted female composers Cecilia Livingston, Florence Price, Rebecca Clarke, Fanny Mendelssohn, and Clara Schumann as well excerpts from Aaron Copland’s Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson and two songs by Schönberg.
North American Solo Recital Debut
Performances
Friday, September 16, 2022 at 8:00pm
Sunday, September 18, 2022 at 3:00pm
Program
Includes works by Sarah Kirkland Snider, Missy Mazzoli, Hildegard von Bingen, Cecilia Livingston, Florence Price, Fanny Mendelssohn, Clara Schumann, Aaron Copland, and Arnold Schönberg.
Run Time
This performance is approximately 60 minutes with no intermission.
“Emily D’Angelo has the opera world’s ear.”
The Globe and Mail
Gallery
Support
The Recital Series is supported in part by The Reed Foundation and the Howard & Sarah D. Solomon Foundation.
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