VIVICA GENAUX,
mezzo-soprano
"...a VOICE
that has in it
both the DUSKINESS of TWILIGHT
and the FRESHNESS
of MORNING!"
Photo: ©
Christian Steiner
The music you're hearing is one of the arias excerpted in "A
Voice Out Of The Cold" - a video documentary on Vivica Genaux,
available on DVD exclusively on FanFaire.com
| Her Current Season |
The dazzling, vocally distinctive, theatrically engaging mezzo-soprano VIVICA GENAUX continues to garner kudos for her compelling performances on the world’s great musical stages, not only for her extraordinary technique and the beauty of voice, but also for her vibrant character portrayals. She is consistently lauded as one of the pre-eminent interpreters of Baroque and bel canto music and continues to explore new avenues in this area.
This season, with a particular emphasis
on the music of the 18th-Century Venetian master Antonio Vivaldi, Ms. Genaux
continues to balance her appearances in the United States and abroad with
operatic engagements, concerts and recitals in new venues and countries, as
well as returns to sites of previous audience and critical triumphs. She adds
three characters from rarely-heard works to her repertoire, two by Vivaldi
(Gilade in Il Farnace and Epitide in L’oracolo
in Messenia), 
as
well as one by J.C. Bach (Tamasse in Zanaïda),
bringing her total to forty-six roles, twenty-nine of which are en travesti.
She sings one of her signature parts, Isabella in L’italiana
in Algeri, and performs concerts with a host of the leading
period instrument ensembles. Her discography is augmented with a Baroque duo
program (her first for Sony) and Vivaldi’s L’oracolo
for Virgin Classics.
The mezzo commences the 2011-12 season with two debut performances at the
Musikfest Bremen (September): the initial one is a Hasse/Handel concert, which
is to be recorded by Sony, in her first collaboration with the ensemble Cappella
Gabetta. Next, in Locarno, as part of Switzerland’s Le Settimane Musicali,
is the first of many performances throughout Ms. Genaux’s season in
which she participates in concert presentations of Vivaldi’s Il
Farnace with Diego Fasolis leading I Barocchisti (September).
Other Farnaces take place that month at the festivals
in Bremen and Ambronay (the latter, also a debut), and for her company debut
at the Opéra de Lausanne (December). Interspersed amongst these are
her role debut as Tamasse in a concert performance of the recently-rediscovered
Zanaïda by Johann Christian Bach at Paris’
Cité de la Musique (September), marking her premier pairing with Opera
Fuoco, led by David Stern; she has a quartet of dates as Isabella for her
first engagement by the Asociación Asturiana de Amigos de la Ópera
in Oviedo, Spain (October); concerts at San Francisco’s Herbst Theater
and elsewhere in the Bay-area for a new collaboration with Nicholas McGegan
and the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra (October); she is a guest artist for
the German AIDS Foundation’s benefit concert on the stage of the Deutsche
Oper Berlin (November); and an all-Vivaldi concert introducing her to audiences
of Prague’s Strings of Autumn Festival (November).
The Alaskan-born mezzo-soprano begins her new year in the company of one of
her most frequent musical partners, Europa Galante and their leader, Fabio
Biondi. They perform another Vivaldi-rarity in concert, with Ms. Genaux taking
on the role in Epitide in L’oracolo in Messenia,
for the first time, initially in Caen, France and then at Vienna’s Konzerthaus,
with the latter serving as the venue of the Virgin Classics recording (January).
The same musical forces then embark on a six-city U.S. tour presenting Vivaldi
arias, as featured in Pyrotechnics, their 2009 Grammy©-nominated recording,
at Los Angeles’ Walt Disney Concert Hall, in Las Vegas, Tucson, Denver,
at Carnegie (Zankel) Hall, and in Kansas City as part of the Harriman-Jewell
series (January/February). She makes her debut in Luxembourg at their Philharmonie
in a program of 18th- and 19th-century repertoire (February). The Farnace
team reassembles in Strasbourg and Mulhouse for a fully-staged production
by Lucinda Childs for France’s Opéra National du Rhin (May-June).
In between the runs in the two Alsatian cities, the artists journey to Amsterdam’s
Concertgebouw for another concert presentation (June). To conclude the season
she makes her International Gluck Opera Festival debut in a concert featuring
opera arias by Gluck and his near-contemporaries, W.A. Mozart and the Czech
composer, Josef Myslivecek.
Photo credit: Mirco Magliocca,
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