Melanie

Repertoire

Opera Roles
Die Zauberflöte ‑ Mozart ‑ Queen of the Night

L'Elisir d'Amore ‑ Donizetti ‑ Adina

Dido and Aeneas ‑ Purcell ‑ Second Woman, Belinda

Julius Caesar ‑ Handel ‑ Cleopatra

Don Pasquale ‑ Donizetti ‑ Norina

Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail ‑ Mozart ‑ Blondchen

Falstaff ‑ Verdi ‑ Nanetta

Le Nozze di Figaro ‑ Mozart ‑ Susanna

Countess

Susannah - Floyd - Susannah

The Telephone ‑ Menotti ‑ Lucy 

Cendrillon ‑ Massenet ‑ Le Fée

A Midsummer Night's Dream ‑ Britten ‑ Tytania 

Rigoletto - Verdi - Gilda

Candide - Bernstein - Cunegonde 

La Traviata- Verdi - Violetta

Suor Angelica - Puccini - Suor Gennovieffa


Opera Arias
Ah! Je veux vivre ‑ Gonoud ‑ Romeo et Juliette
Bel Raggio Lusinghier ‑ Rossini ‑ Semiramide
Eccomi¼O Quante Volte ‑ Bellini ‑ I Capuleti
Kommt ein schlanker ‑ Weber ‑ Freischutz
Bell Song ‑ Délibes ‑ Lakmé
Chacun le sait ‑ Donizetti ‑ La Fille du Régiment
Lascia ch'io pianga ‑ Handel ‑ Rinaldo
Bester Jungling ‑ Mozart ‑ Impressario
Una voce poco fa ‑ Rossini ‑ Barber of Seville
L'Amero saro costante ‑ Mozart ‑ Il re pastore
Mein Herr Marquis ‑ Strauss ‑ Die Fledermaus
Doll Song ‑ Offenbach ‑ Contes d'Hoffmann

Oratorio and other Religious Pieces
Elijah ‑ Mendelssohn ‑ Hear Ye, Israel
Stabat Mater ‑ Pergolesi ‑ Soprano Soloist
Jephtha ‑ Handel ‑Iphis
Messiah ‑ Handel ‑ Soprano Soloist
Samson ‑ Handel ‑ Let the Bright Seraphim
Joshua ‑ Handel ‑ O had I Jubal's Lyre 
The Creation ‑ Haydn ‑ With Verdure Clad

Song Cycles, Songs with Orchestra
As it fell upon the day ‑ Copland (with flute and clarinet)
Knoxville, Summer of 1915 ‑ Barber
Brentano Lieder ‑ Strauss
Chanson d'Eve ‑ Fauré

Various Songs
Beethoven
Berg
Berlin
Bernstein
Copland
Debussy
Fauré
Gershwin
Handel
Hindemith
Mozart
Meyerbeer
Purcell
Schubert
Schumann
Somers
Strauss
Viardot
Wolf

In Addition to my classical repertoire, I also perform:  French Cabaret, Hebrew, and Jazz music.