Described by the New York Times as “one of America’s finest artists and singers,” Frederica von Stade continues to be extolled as one of the music world’s most beloved figures with a career that spans four and a half decades. Though she retired from full-time performances in 2010, she continues to make special appearances in concert and opera. Recently, Frederica von Stade announced her final recording project, a solo in Joseph Turrin’s cantata And Crimson Roses Once Again Be Fair with the Musica Viva NY Choir and Orchestra. Von Stade joins WFMT to share this recording as well as favorite performances in operas by Mozart and Rossini, mélodies of Gabriel Fauré, and art songs by contemporary American composers.
An Interview with Frederica von Stade
Frederica von Stade (Photo: Lieberman Photography)
Playlist
All selections feature mezzo-soprano Frederica von Stade.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: “Non so più cosa son,cosa faccio” from Le nozze di Figaro
Mozart: “Vedrai carino” from Don Giovanni
Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra
Edo de Waart, conductor
Mozart: “Ah perdona al primo affetto” from La clemenza di Tito
Lucia Popp, soprano
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Sir Colin Davis, conductor
Gioachino Rossini: “Nacqui all’affanno…Non più mesta” from La cenerentola
Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra
Edo de Waart, conductor
Gabriel Fauré: Après un rêve
Fauré: Prison
Fauré: Notre amour
Jean-Philippe Collard, piano
Richard Hundley: Come Ready and See Me
Martin Katz, piano
Jake Heggie: My True Love Hath Heart
Sylvia McNair, soprano
Emil Miland, cello
Jake Heggie, piano
William Bolcom: Amor
Martin Katz, piano
Joseph Turrin: And Crimson Roses Once Again Be Fair
XIII. Perhaps
Musica Viva NY
Alejandro Hernandez-Valdez, conductor
Carol Hall: Jenny Rebecca
Martin Katz, piano
