Isabel Bayrakdarian
Soprano
photo: Dario Acosta
Serouj Kradjian – Piano
Friday, October 25, 2013
8 PM
McDOUGALL UNITED CHURCH
10025 – 101 St. | Edmonton, AB
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A prize-winning performance at the 2000 Operalia competition introduced the world to Canadian soprano Isabel Bayrakdarian . In the years since she has continued to delight an enthusiastic and ever-growing audience. Internationally acclaimed as an opera star, recitalist and recording artist, she moves with ease from Gluck and Mozart to Poulenc and Janáček.
Her wide-ranging musical projects include performances with Broadway’s Patti LuPone, in the premiere of Jake Heggie and Gene Sheer’s one-act opera To Hell and Back; soundtrack recordings for the films Ararat and The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers; and a widely toured program of traditional Armenian music developed with her husband, pianist and composer Serouj Kradjian .
Their shared taste for musical exploration is reflected in two recent CDs – their Juno award-winning collection of songs by the 19th century singer and composer Pauline Viardot-Garcia and Tango Notturno, a chronology of the tango in its many and varied expressions. Included in the concert program are some of the rediscovered vocal treasures they have so successfully introduced in these recordings and in recitals throughout North America.
| Die drei Zigeuner | Franz Liszt (1811-1886) |
| Tre sonetti di Petrarca, S. 270, No. 1: Pace non trovo, Sonnet No. 134 Tre sonetti di Petrarca, S. 270 No. 3: I vidi in terra angelici costumi, Sonnet No. 156 |
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| Songs and Sonnets to Ophelia Ophelia’s Song Women have loved before Not in a silver casket Spring |
Jake Heggie (1961 - ) |
| La mort d’Ophelie, H. 92a Opus 18 No. 2 | Hector Berlioz (1803-1869) |
| Chanson Perpetuelle | Ernest Chausson (1855-1899) |
| ~Intermission~ | |
| Armenian Folk Songs Ah, Dear Maral Call to the Sea Lullaby Apricot Tree |
Gomidas Vartaped (1869-1935) |
| Cinco Canciones Negras Cuba dentro de un piano Punto de habanera Chevere Cancion de cuna para dormer a un negrito Canto negro |
Xavier Montsalvatge |
| El Dia que me quieras | Carlos Gardel (1890-1935) |
| Che tango che | Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992) |
| Beautiful Dream (Tchknagh Yeraz) | Arno Babadjanian (1921-1983) |
“She’s a soprano prized for the flexible color of her voice as well as for the dramatic urgency she brings to operatic roles.” –Boston Globe
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