The first song from Robert Schumann's song cycle Frauenliebe und Leben.

Kathy Geary will appear in a recital, "An Evening of German Song" in a fund raising concert for the Delaware Valley Opera on May 7 and May 8, 2011.

Delaware Valley Opera
Carol Castel, General Manager
presents
Voices of the Valley:
An Evening of German Song
Kathy Geary, Soprano and Kevin Hanek, Tenor
Lucy Arner, piano

Saturday, May 7, 2011, 7 p.m., Grace Episcopal church
Sunday, May 8, 2011, 3 p.m., tusten theater
The Delaware Valley Opera’s 2011 Season is made possible in part with support from the New York State Council on the Arts and Sullivan County Arts & Heritage Grant.

i. Franz Schubert(1797-1828)

Four songs from Schwanengesang, D. 957

In der Ferne (Rellstab)
Ständchen (Rellstab)
Ihr Bild (Heine)
Der Atlas (Heine)

ii. Robert Schumann(1810-1856)

Three songs from Frauenliebe und Leben, Op. 42

Seit ich ihn gesehen
Er, der Herrlichste von allen
Nun hast du mir den ersten Schmerz getan

Three songs on texts by Justinius Kerner, Op. 35
Lust der Sturmnacht
Stirb, Lieb und Freud!
Sehnsucht nach der Waldgegen

Two duets for soprano and tenor, Op. 78
Er und Sie (Kerner)
Ich denke dein (Goethe)

iii. Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)

Der Tod, das ist die kühle Nacht (Heine)
Immer leise wird mein Schlummer (Lingg)

Three songs on texts by Georg Friedrich Daumer
Es träumte mir
Nicht mehr zu dir zu gehen
Wie bist du, meine Königin

iv. Gustav Mahler(1860-1911)

Two songs on texts by Friedrich Rückert
Ich atmet’ einen linden Duft
Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen

v. Richard Strauss

Die Nacht (Gilm) (1864-1949)
Allerseelen (Gilm)
Morgen! (Mackay)
Zueignung (Gilm)

The Delaware Valley Opera is pleased to present this special series of three recitals, in honor of their Silver Anniversary, celebrating some of the diverse peoples who have settled in the Delaware Valley, bringing with them their cultures, and especially, their music. Recitals of Spanish, Russian, and German songs and arias will be performed at both the Grace Episcopal Church in Honesdale, Pennsylvania, and the Tusten Theater in Narrowsburg, New York. We hope that you will enjoy these recitals, honoring the rich cultural heritage that has enriched the Delaware V Valley community.

Soprano Kathy Geary began her operatic career with a stellar debut as Mimi in Puccini’s La boheme in Busseto, Italy, where tenor Carlo Bergonzi and soprano Renata Tebaldi were among her early mentors. She completed undergraduate studies in voice at Texas Christian University, and graduate work at University of N North Texas, where she sang a variety of staged roles with orchestra, including Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte, Alice Ford in Verdi’s Falstaff, and Giorgetta in Puccini’s Il tabarro. Ms. Geary appeared with the New Jersey Concert Opera Orchestra as Siegrune in a full-length concert performance of Die Walküre. Further engagements have included the Countess in Le nozze di Figaro with the Capitol Opera Company of Harrisburg, and Amelia in Un ballo in maschera with Bulgaria’s Burgas Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus, as well as a concert at New York’s Steinway Hall, where she performed arias from Un ballo in maschera and Adriana Lecouvreur with pianist Michael Fennelley, and performances of scenes from Verdi’s Otello and Wagner’s Die Walküre this past summer in a series of concerts in Austria’s Tyrolean Alps.