Quelle chance!

I’m going to be spending six weeks this summer with the Franco-America Vocal Academy in southern France working on French vocal music.  I will play Orphée in the mezzo version of Offenbach’s Orphée aux Enfers, perform solos in concerts of sacred music by Gounod and Saint-Saëns, and prepare songs of contemporary composer Isabelle Aboulker under her tutelage.  I will also get to take lessons in singing, movement, and French.  And did I mention spend six weeks in the south of France in the summer?

Specific performance dates TBA.

My violinist sister Julia and I are teaming up to present a lunchtime recital at St. Paul Cathedral in downtown Boston on June 16th.  We’ll be playing Vaughan Williams’s “Along the Field” - settings of A.E. Housman poems - and folk song settings by Rebecca Clarke.

Wednesday, June 16th
12:00-12:30 sharp *time change* (no longer at 12:15)
St. Paul Cathedral
138 Tremont St, across from Park Street Station
Boston, MA

$5 suggested donation goes to benefit the church’s organ fund.
This event is open to the public and you are free to bring your lunch!

A World Premiere Staged Reading of College/Bound, a new musical by Marlena Merrin.

College/Bound is a dramatic comedy about family expectations and college aspirations. There are complications, revelations and transformations. This is a full-length show (2+ hours) and is appropriate for adults and mature teenagers. (Unfortunately we can’t accommodate children under 13, including infants, on June 12th)

When: June 12th 2pm
Running time: 2.5 hours including a 15 minute intermission

Where: Margaret Jewett Hall within the First Congregational Church. The church is on the corner of Garden Street and Mason Street. The entrance to the Hall is actually on Mason Street.
Directions

Cost: $5

by Jennifer Dubois
Presented by 11:11 Theatre Company

April 30 @ 8pm
May 1, 6, 7, & 8 @ 8pm
May 2 @ 3pm
At the Factory Theatre,   MAP

Laura and Jonah, a childless couple, deal with the arrival and care of a foreign-exchange student.  After the student’s death, the two form separate and competing narratives about who the student was and what their interactions with her meant.  These divergent stories challenge the couple’s marriage and, ultimately, their sense of reality.   I play Alice, one of Laura and Jonah’s neighbors (read: foil).

$15 Online Presale, $17 at the Door
Thursday, May 6 is pay-what-you-can at the door
Tickets

Who could love a Dwarf?  OperaHub presents Zemlinsky’s heartbreaking tale of love and disillusionment.  This semi-autobiographical one-act makes a long-overdue Boston appearance.

I’m one of the Princess’s small Entourage.

DER ZWERG (The Dwarf)
By Alexander Zemlinsky
Libretto by George Klaren, based on Oscar Wilde’s
The Birthday of the Infanta

FREE ADMISSION!

Thursday, March 11, 2010 @ 8pm
Friday, March 12, 2010 @ 8pm
Saturday, March 13, 2010 @ 3pm + 8pm

Plaza Black Box Theatre, The Boston Center for the Arts
539 Tremont Street, Boston [map]

TICKETS
In the spirit of accessible opera for all, tickets to the Boston performances of Der Zwerg are absolutely free and may be reserved in advance by emailing tickets@operahub.org with your name, phone number, requested performance date, and number of seats.