Maria Schellenberg, mezzo soprano, Irina Behrendt, piano: The Wheel Of The Year
Schedule
Sat Apr 20 2024 at 07:00 pm
Location
1529 South B Street, San Mateo, CA | San Mateo, CA
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Do not miss this extraordinary opportunity to hear Maria Schellenberg, a London-based mezzo soprano!Maria will perform an assembly of art songs which carries us through a year cycle month by month. Each is a story that takes the listener on a journey to different lands, times, and cultures.
Program:
1. Claude Debussy Chansons de Bilitis: le tambeau de Naïades
2. Igor Stravinsky Berceuses du Chat (Cat’s Lullabies)
3. Robert Schumann Die beiden grenadiere (Two Grenadiers)
4. Sergei Rachmaninov Spring Waters
5. Hector Berlioz Les Nuits d’été: Villanelle
6. Sergei Rachmaninov The Lilacs
7. Franz Liszt Der Alpenjäger (The Alpine Hunter) from Drei Lieder aus Schiller “Wilhelm Tell”
8. Claude Debussy De fleurs… from Proses lyriques
9. Moris Ravel Chanson à boire from Trois Chansons de Don Quichotte
10. Rebecca Clarke The Seal Man
11. Granville Bantock The Celestial Weaver from Five Songs from the Chinese Poets
12. Claudio Monteverdi Laudate Dominum
Maria Schellenberg began her international career after winning the Michael Oliver Prize at the London Handel Competition in 2015. Her recent engagements include Falliero BIANCA E FALLIERO at Oper Frankfurt and Tiroler Festspiele Erl, Dalila (cover) and Bradamante (cover) SAMSON ET DALILA at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Tisbe LA CENERENTOLA with the Grange Festival (UK), Isabella L’ITALIANA IN ALGERI at the Opera de Tenerife, Teatro Comunale di Bologna and the Centre Lyrique Clermont-Auvergne, Magd in Zemlinsky’s DER ZWERG at Ópera de Tenerife, Ottavia L’INCORONAZIONE DI POPPEA at the Longborough Festival and Alcina ORLANDO FURIOSO and Aristea in Vivaldi’s L’OLIMPIADE conducted by Federico Maria Sardelli. Upcoming engagements include her role-debut as Mme Arvidson UN BALLO IN MASCHERA for Chelsea Opera Group and 3rd Wood Nymph RUSALKA for Opera de Tenerife.
Recent concert appearances include Berlioz Les Nuits d’Ete at the Festival de Múver (Spain) and Les Noces with the London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Vasily Petrenko.
Other roles include Arsace ORMISDA with the London Handel Festival, Bradamante ALCINA for the Lammermuir Festival and Ryedale Festival Opera, Rosmilda in Handel’s pasticcio ELPIDIA at St. Georges Hanover Square, Albino in Johann Hasse I PELLEGRINI AL SEPOLCHRO DI NOSTRO SIGNORE at Tchaikovsky Philharmonic Hall, Moscow, Emirena in Pergolesi ADRIANO IN SIRIA at Cadogan Hall, Mozart Requiem at St. Martin in the Fields and Dardano AMADIGI at the London Handel Festival. Ms Schellenberg has been an Alvarez Young Artist at Garsington Festival Opera where she covered the role of Ino SEMELE. Her professional recordings include “A lullaby for Princess Charlotte” by Dr Olga Thomas produced by the Royal Marines’ Bandmaster and Cruise Bereavement Care as a private gift for Her Majesty the Queen.
Born into a family of musicians, Maria started her professional musical education at the age of six. She studied piano at the Gnessins’ College of Music as a pianist/accompanist with Anna Arzamanova from which she graduated magna cum laude, later undertaking graduade studies at the Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatoire in piano and harpsichord studies and subsequently graduating from the Royal College of Music, London with a Master of Vocal Performance and a Graduate Diploma in Vocal Performance, both with distinction.
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