Greetings and Happy New Year to all of our Vocal Masterclassics subscribers and friends!
I hope this finds you someplace warm and cozy, and that you are surviving the crazy weather that has marked the end of 2017 and already the beginning of 2018! Here in Indiana, it was amazing to wake up a few days ago to -17 actual temp, and near -40 wind-chill! My goodness! I thought perhaps I had moved to North Dakota! No matter how cold you may be, I hope your holidays were warm with the blessings of dear friends and family, and that the New Year will be bright. Thank you for being a part of our family! All the best! Dr. Keith Brautigam, VMC President
Introducing Our New Listings
As we embark on this new year at Vocal Masterclassics, we are pleased to provide you with a wonderful variety of new masterclasses that just arrived on the internet. As you peruse them below, you will not want to miss the classes by such celebrated singers as Dolora Zajick, James Morris, Joan Hammond, and Reri Grist. In addition, what a pleasant surprise to see the arrival of the masterclasses that were given at the 2017 George Shirley Vocal Competition, with classes not only by the incomparable Mr. Shirley, but by his three guest artist clinicians, Patricia Miller, Marquita Lister, and Robert Sims, as they work a number of outstanding pieces from need-to-know African-American composers. We then round out our new listings with additional high-level classes given at Julliard, this time by the famed conductors, Fabio Luisi and Emmanuel Villaume, as they work Verdi, Mozart, Bizet and Massenet opera duets that we don't normally have the opportuntiy of encountering in a masterclass format. They are WELL worth viewing, especially for anyone preparing these roles for the stage! Happy viewing!
The Listings!
Master Artist: Dolora Zajick
Master Artist Voice: Mezzo-Soprano
Venue: Scuola dell-Opera Italian (Bologna)
Date: 2012
Genre: Variety
Master Artist: James Morris
Master Artist Voice: Bass-Baritone
Venue: Merola Opera Program
Date: 2017
Performer Voice Type: Bass-Baritone
Title: Leb wohl, du kunhes, herrliches Kind
Composer: Richard Wagner
From: Die Walküre
Genre: German Opera
Master Artist: Joan Hammond
Master Artist Voice: Soprano
Venue: The Royal College of Music, Manchester
Date: N/A
#1 - Performer Voice Type: Soprano
Title: In quelle trine morbide
Composer: Giacomo Puccini
From: Manon Lescaut
Genre: Italian Opera
#2 - Performer Voice Type: Soprano and Bass-Baritone
Title: Tosca/Scarpia Duet
Composer: Giacomo Puccini
From: Tosca
Genre: Italian Opera
Master Artist: Reri Grist
Master Artist Voice: Soprano
Venue: The Voice Foundation
Date: 2017
Performer Voice Type: Soprano
Title: Signore Ascolta
Composer: Giacomo Puccini
From: Turandot
Genre: Italian Opera
Master Artist: Fabio Luisi
Master Artist Voice: Conductor
Venue: Julliard
Date: 2017
#1 - Performer Voice Type: Soprano and Tenor
Title: Un dì, se ben rammentomi
Composer: Giuseppe Verdi
From: Rigoletto
Genre: Italian Opera
#2 - Performer Voice Type: Soprano, Mezz0-Soprano, Soprano, Mezzo-Soprano
Title: Alice, Meg, Nanetta
Composer: Giuseppe Verdi
From: Falstaff
Genre: Italian Opera
#3 - Performer Voice Type: Soprano, Mezzo-Soprano, Tenor, Baritone, and Bass-Baritone
Title: Sento oddio, che questo piede
Composer: W. A. Mozart
From: Cosi fan tutte
Genre: German Singspiel
#4 - Performer Voice Type: Soprano, Tenor and Bass
Title: Soll ich dich, Teurer, nicht mehr sehn?
Composer: W. A. Mozart
From: Die Zauberflöte
Genre: German Singspiel
#5 - Genre: Questions and Answers
Master Artist: Emmanuel Villaume
Master Artist Voice: Conductor
Venue: Julliard
Date: 2017
#1 - Performer Voice Type: Soprano and Tenor
Title: Quels regards... Parle-moi de ma mère
Composer: Georges Bizet
From: Carmen
Genre: French Opera
#2 - Performer Voice Type: Mezzo-Soprano and Tenor
Title: Il faut nous séparer
Composer: Jules Massenet
From: Werther
Genre: French Opera
Master Artist: Robert Sims
Master Artist Voice: Baritone
Venue: George Shirley Vocal Competition
Date: 2017
#1 - Performer Voice Type: Soprano
Title: Watch and Pray
Composer: Undine Smith Moore
Genre: American Art Song
#2 - Performer Voice Type: Baritone
Title: Witness
Composer: Hall Hohnson
Genre: American Art Song
#3 - Performer Voice Type: Soprano
Title: Ride On, King Jesus
Genre: Spiritual
Master Artist: Patricia Miller
Master Artist Voice: Mezzo-Soprano
Venue: George Shirley Vocal Competition
Date: 2017
#1 - Performer Voice Type: Soprano
Title: Night
Composer: Florence Price
Genre: American Art Song
#2 - Performer Voice Type: Soprano
Title: Give Me Jesus
Genre: Spiritual
#3 - Performer Voice Type: Soprano
Title: My Soul's Been Anchored in the Lord
Genre: Spiritual
Master Artist: George Shirley
Master Artist Voice: Tenor
Venue: George Shirley Vocal Competition
Date: 2017
#1 - Genre: Opening Comments
#2 - Performer Voice Type: Bass-Baritone
Title: What Makes a Man a Man
Composer: Terence Blanchard
From: Champion
Genre: American Opera
#3 - Performer Voice Type: Soprano
Composer: Nkeiru Okoye
From: Harriet Tubman: When I Crossed That Line to Freedom
Genre: American Opera
#4 - Performer Voice Type: Soprano
Title: Life and Death
Composer: Samuel Coleridge
Genre: American Art Song
#5 - Performer Voice Type: Soprano
Title: Love Let the Wind Cry...How I Adore Thee
Composer: Undine Smith Moore
Genre: American Art Song
#6 - Performer Voice Type: Bass-Baritone
Title: I, too, Sins America
Composer: Margaret Bonds
Genre: American Art Song
Master Artist: Marquita Lister
Master Artist Voice: Soprano
Venue: George Shirley Vocal Competition
Date: 2017
#1 - Performer Voice Type: Soprano
Title: Till I Wake
Composer: H. T. Burleigh
Genre: Spiritual
#2 - Performer Voice Type: Soprano
Title: Compensation
Composer: Betty Jackson King
Genre: American Art Song
#3 - Performer Voice Type: Soprano
Title: Thou Art Risen, My Beloved
Composer: Samuel Coleridge
Genre: American Art Song
#4 - Performer Voice Type: Soprano
Title: Sein wir wieder gut
Composer: Richard Strauss
From: Ariadne auf Naxos
Genre: German Opera