F R I D AY S at Field
CO-PRESENTED BY OPERA PHILADELPHIA AND THE CURTIS INSTITUTE OF MUSIC
September 21 & 28, 2018 Field Concert Hall
This performance series is underwritten by the Allen R. and Judy Brick Freedman Venture Fund for Opera.
TRAVEL LOG #1: POSTCARDS FROM EUROPE Friday, September 21, 2018
The running time is approximately one hour with no intermission.
Ashley Marie Robillard, soprano Siena Licht Miller, mezzo-soprano Grant Loehnig, piano WANDERLUST “Places to Live” William Bolcom/Arnold Weinstein “Wanderlied” Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel/Johann Wolfgang von Goethe “Wanderlied” Felix Mendelssohn/Joseph von Eichendorff “L’île inconnue” from Nuits d’été Hector Berlioz/Théophile Gautier PARIS “Voyage à Paris” from Banalités “Montparnasse” “Hôtel” from Banalités “Early in the Morning” “For Poulenc”
Francis Poulenc/Guillaume Apollinaire Francis Poulenc/Guillaume Apollinaire Francis Poulenc/Guillaume Apollinaire Ned Rorem/Robert Hillyer Ned Rorem/Frank O’Hara
VENICE “Belle nuit” from Les contes d’Hoffmann “When through the Piazzetta” “La barcheta” “Anzoleta dopo la regata” from La regata veneziana
Jacques Offenbach/Jules Barbier Adolf Jensen/Thomas Moore Reynaldo Hahn/Pietro Buratti Gioacchino Rossini/Francesco Piave
BERLIN “Berlin im Licht” Kurt Weill “Berlin” Lou Reed “Ich hab’ noch einen Koffer in Berlin” Ralph Maria Siegel/Aldo von Pinelli LONDON “Soho Forenoons” from London Pieces John Ireland “Business Girls” Madeleine Dring/John Betjeman “Take Me in a Taxi, Joe” Bennett Scott/A.J. Mills “A Transport of Delight (Omnibus)” Michael Flanders/Donald Swann
TRAVEL LOG #2: SNAPSHOTS OF AMERICA Friday, September 28, 2018
The running time is approximately one hour with no intermission.
Ashley Marie Robillard, soprano Siena Licht Miller, mezzo-soprano Grant Loehnig, piano “As Long As We Live”
Missy Mazzoli/Walt Whitman
“Wichita Vortex Sutra”
Philip Glass/Allen Ginsberg
“Alabama Song” from Mahagonny-Songspiel “Silhouette” from Shadow of the Blues
Kurt Weill/Bertolt Brecht John Musto/Langston Hughes
“Daybreak in Alabama”
Ricky Ian Gordon/Langston Hughes
“Heavenly Grass”
Paul Bowles/Tennessee Williams
Knoxville: Summer of 1915
Samuel Barber/James Agee
“To Home”
Jennifer Higdon
“At the River”
arr. Charles Ives
“The Stranger Who Resides Among You” “Litany” from Shadow of the Blues “Refugee Blues” “Ode to the Promised Land”
David Hanlon/Leviticus 19:34 John Musto/Langston Hughes Mohammed Fairouz/W. H. Auden Paquito D’Rivera/Alexis Romay
Grant Loehnig is Head of Music Staff at Opera Philadelphia and Wolf Trap Opera, where he is also Music Director of the Studio young artist program. He has worked as music staff at Lyric Opera of Chicago, Opera Studies faculty at Rice University in Houston, and currently serves on the faculty at the Curtis Institute of Music. As a recital pianist, he has collaborated with artists including Susanne Mentzer, Morris Robinson, Paul Groves, and Albina Shagimuratova and recorded an album of song by Carlisle Floyd with Susanne Mentzer for GPR Records. He has prepared choruses for the Houston Symphony and Wolf Trap Opera. He holds a Bachelor of Arts from Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, a Master of Music in vocal accompanying from Manhattan School of Music, and is a graduate of the Houston Grand Opera Studio, Music Academy of the West, and San Francisco Opera’s Merola Program. German-American mezzo-soprano Siena Licht Miller is the Mitchell Family Annual Fellow at the Curtis Institute of Music. She made her professional debut with Opera Philadelphia in The Magic Flute (Second Lady) while covering the role of The Fairy Prince in David Hertzberg’s world premiere of The Wake World. She performed the roles of Larina in Eugene Onegin, Baba in The Medium, Lucretia in The Rape of Lucretia, and Kitty Oppenheimer in Doctor Atomic with Curtis Opera Theatre. In summer 2018 she also covered the role of Kitty in Doctor Atomic with Santa Fe Opera. Siena is an alumna of the Aspen Music Festival, Chautauqua Institute, and The Gerdine Young Artist
Program at Opera Theatre of Saint Louis. Siena has worked with artists such as Renée Fleming, Robert Spano, Plácido Domingo, and Marilyn Horne. She holds a Bachelor of Music from the Oberlin Conservatory and is currently in the Master’s program at the Curtis Institute of Music. In 2019, she will perform the role of Hermia in A Midsummer Night’s Dream with Opera Philadelphia. Siena Licht Miller’s participation in the Emerging Artists Program is underwritten by Carol and Howard Lidz
Ashley Marie Robillard is a soprano from Norton, Massachusetts, the Arthur Tracy Fellow at the Curtis Institute of Music, and an Emerging Artist with Opera Philadelphia. She is currently pursuing her Bachelor of Music at the Curtis Institute of Music. Ashley made her professional debut fall 2017 singing the role of Papagena in Opera Philadelphia’s production of The Magic Flute. She performed the roles of Tatyana (Eugene Onegin) and Jessie (Mahagonny: Ein Songspiel) with Curtis Opera Theatre for their 2017–2018 Season. Ashley has also performed the roles of Musetta (La bohème), Lucia (The Rape of Lucretia), Lauretta (Gianni Schicchi), Barbarina (Le nozze di Figaro), Pousette (Manon), Bianca (La Rondine), and Tisbe (La cenerentola) with Curtis Opera Theatre. In 2019, she will be performing the role of Musetta in La bohème with Opera Philadelphia. Ashley Robillard’s participation in the Emerging Artists Program is underwritten, in part, by Mr. and Mrs. James M. Matarese. Additional support for the Emerging Artists Program received from VIVACE, Opera Philadelphia’s community for young professionals.