Ravinia 2022, Issue 5

MARK PILLAI (D’ANGELO); PATRICK GIPSON (MURPHY) I I ’ ; I I R MARTIN THEATRE 7:30 PM WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17, 2022 EMILY D’ANGELO, mezzo-soprano # KEVIN MURPHY, piano enargeia HILDEGARD O frondens virga (arr. Mazzoli/Muñoz) SCHOENBERG Erwartung * SCHOENBERG Schenk mir deinen goldenen Kamm MAZZOLI You Are the Dust * CLARKE Down by the Salley Gardens * CLARKE The Cloths of Heaven SNIDER Selections from Penelope * Dead Friend Nausicaa LIVINGSTON Penelope * CLARKE The Seal Man SCHUMANN Loreley –Intermission– COPLAND Selections from Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson Why Do They Shut Me Out of Heaven The World Feels Dusty I’ve Heard an Organ Talk Sometimes PRICE Night * LIVINGSTON Moon * HENSEL Nachtwanderer * ROSSINI Giovanna d’arco # Ravinia Steans Music Institute alum * First performance at Ravinia Please see tonight’s program book insert for notes on this program. EMILY D’ANGELO, mezzo-soprano A 2020 Lincoln Center Emerging Artist, To- ronto-born mezzo-soprano Emily D’Angelo is the only vocalist to receive the Leonard Bernstein Award from the Schleswig-Hol- stein Festival and is a winner of the George London and Gerda Lissner Competitions, as well as Operalia, where she earned the Birgit Nilsson, zarzuela, audience, and first prizes. Having trained at the University of Toronto and the Metropolitan Opera and Canadian Opera Company apprentice artist programs, she made her stage debut as Cherubino in Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro at the Spo- leto Festival dei Due Mondi in 2016. In the past year, D’Angelo has added several firsts in her career—last fall she made her role debut as Ottavia in Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea at Zurich Opera and then made her house and role debuts as Angelina in Rossi- ni’s La Cenerentola at Semperoper Dresden. She continued to inhabit the Cinderella story in the winter as Prince Charming in Massen- et’s Cendrillon at the Met, and in the spring she sang her first Donna Elvira in Mozart’s Don Giovanni at La Scala. Last month she also tallied house and role debuts as Siébel in Gounod’s Faust at Paris Opera. Recent seasons’ highlights include several Mozarte- an roles: Cherubino with Berlin State Opera (debut) and Bavarian State Opera, where she also essayed Idamante in Idomeneo ; Dorabel- la in Così fan tutte first with Canadian Opera Company and for her La Scala and Santa Fe Opera debuts; role and house debuts as Sesto in La clemenza di Tito at Covent Garden, and both Annio in Clemenza and Second Lady in The Magic Flute in her 2019 Met debut season. D’Angelo has also portrayed Sister Mathil- de in Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmélites at the Met and Rosina in Rossini’s The Barber of Seville first at the Glimmerglass Festival and also with Canadian Opera Company. A Deutsche Grammophon exclusive recording artist, she recently released her debut album enargeia , which informs her program tonight. Emily D’Angelo was a Ravinia Steans Music Institute fellow in 2015 and 2016 and last week made her Chicago Symphony Orchestra de- but on this same stage. KEVIN MURPHY, piano New York native Kevin Murphy studied pia- no performance at Indiana University under Menahem Pressler and James Tocco, com- pleting a Bachelor of Music, and later studied piano accompaniment at the Curtis Institute, earning a master’s degree. In 1992 he was in- vited to be the first pianist to participate in the Lindemann Young Artist Program of the Metropolitan Opera, where he was an assis- tant conductor from the following year until 2006, when he was named director of musical studies for the Paris National Opera. Murphy has played harpsichord continuo with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra in produc- tions of Rossini’s La Cenerentola and Mozart’s Così fan tutte , The Marriage of Figaro , Idome- neo , La clemenza di Tito , and Don Giovanni (several of which he has also performed at Ravinia), and traveled with the company on tour to Japan, where he has played and been a musical assistant for the Seiji Ozawa Op- era Project. He also regularly collaborates with such artists as Michelle DeYoung, Gary Lakes, Kathleen Battle, Nathan Gunn, Bryn Terfel, Cecilia Bartoli, Frederica von Stade, Plácido Domingo, Renée Fleming, Gerald Finley, Kiri Te Kanawa, and Pinchas Zuker- man. Murphy has been a vocal coach at San Francisco Opera’s Merola Program, the Inter- national Vocal Arts Institute, Glimmerglass Opera, Tanglewood, and The Juilliard School; an opera coach for the Canadian Opera Com- pany and Netherlands Opera; and a regular adjudicator for the Metropolitan Opera Na- tional Council Auditions. He was director of music administration for New York City Op- era from 2008 until 2011, when he joined the faculty of Indiana University as professor of practice and head opera coach, and in 2013 he was appointed artistic consultant of the Tuc- son Desert Song Festival. This is Kevin Mur- phy’s 12th season in performance at Ravinia, where he first appeared in 2004, and his 11th year as director of the Ravinia Steans Music Institute Program for Singers. RAVINIA.ORG • RAVINIA MAGAZINE 25