GALLERY 2010

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Photos at the check signing at the Metropolitan Opera on September 2, 2010

Photos show Dr. GASTON ORMAZABAL, Foundation Founder and Chairman, signing check award to the Metropolitan Opera Lindemann Young Artists Development Program; and Dr.ORMAZABAL with Advisory Board Member MARY GENE SONDERICKER, Lindemann Program Executive Director BRIAN ZEGER, and 2010 award recipient soprano LAYLA CLAIRE.

READ A CRITIQUE of Layla Claire’s performance in the Juilliard School/Metropolitan Opera production of The Bartered Bride.
After LAYLA CLAIRE’s Weill Hall (at Carnegie Hall) solo recital debut (October 21, 2011):

LAYLA CLAIRE with (l to r) Advisory Board Member PRINCE FABRIZIO RUSPOLI, Foundation Founder and Chairman Dr. GASTON ORMAZABAL, and Advisory Board Member KEN NODA

CARNEGIE HALL ANNOUNCEMENTS of Layla’s solo recital debut at Weill Hall:

Carnegie Hall presents: Layla Claire / Natalia Katyukova
Carnegie Hall presents: Great Singers III: Evenings of Song

A PREVIEW of Layla’s Weill Hall recital

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Hildegard Behrens was celebrated for her riveting portrayals of the most demanding soprano roles in the operatic repertoire--the great heroines which she sang with a powerful radiance. She was a searingly anguished Elektra in the title role of Richard Strauss’ opera.She was a monumental Brünnhilde in Richard Wagner’s tetralogy The Ring of the Nibelung and a sublimely human Leonore in Ludwig van Beethoven’s Fidelio.

Her sensational performance at the Metropolitan Opera was released on DVD on September 21, 2010 as part of the 12-title DVD set celebrating James Levine's 40 years as The Met's Music Director. The DVD was released as a single disc in 2012.

DVD cover - Hildegard Behrens as Elektra
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Orest! Recognition Scene from Elektra

“HILDEGARD BEHRENS broke through every wall in my human experience with the sound of her voice. It was the purest heart and soul from within the most challenging depths. Her artistry was about finding the light and in doing so, gave us all the gift of hope. Long live the HILDEGARD BEHRENS FOUNDATION in honoring the future of young artists with her embrace.”
- Ken Noda, Musical Assistant to James Levine / Lindemann Young Artist Development Program

Immolation Scene from Götterdämmerung

Opening music: Hildegard Behrens singing "Komm Hoffnung" [Come, hope] - Aria from Act I, Scene 6 of the German opera, Fidelio by Ludwig van Beethoven / Chicago Symphony, Sir Georg Solti, cond. [Decca] - the first opera to be digitally recorded.