jennifer lane - UCSD Department of Music Intranet - UC San Diego

u.c. san diego department of music
jennifer lane
thursday, feb. 21, 2008
5 p.m.
warren studio a

PROGRAM
I.
Wenn kömmt der Tag J.S. Bach (1685-1750)
from Kantate 70 “Wachet, betet, betet, wachet!”
Charles Curtis, violoncello
Takae Ohnishi, harpsichord
II.
Voi che sapete W.A. Mozart (1756-1891)
from Le Nozze di Figaro (1786)
Wo die schönen Trompeten blasen Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)
from Das Knaben Wunderhorn (1898)
Unterm Schutz Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951)
from Das Buch Der Hängenden Gärten (1909)
Katalin Lukacs, piano
III.
Act One Judith Weir (1954-)
from King Harald’s Saga (1979)
grand opera in three acts for unaccompanied solo
soprano singing eight roles, based on the saga
‘Heimskringla’ by Snorri Sturluson (1179-1241)
Invisible Jean-Claude Risset (1938-)
for soprano and 2-track tape (1996)

Mezzo-soprano Jennifer Lane is recognized internationally for her
stunning interpretations of repertoire ranging from the early baroque to that of
todayʼs composers. She has appeared at many of the most distinguished festivals
and concert series worldwide, with conductors William Christie, Nicholas McGegan,
Andrew Parrott, Howard Arman, Marc Minkowski, Helmut Rilling and Robert Shaw.
Ms. Lane has performed in opera and concert with the Tanglewood Festival, Boston
Early Music Festival, the New Getty Center, the Frick Collection, Opernhaus Halle,
Opernhaus Dessau, Utah Opera, Salzburger Bachgesellschaft, Seattle Baroque
Orchestra, Jerusalem Symphony, St. Louis Symphony, Orchestra della Toscana, and
the New York City Opera, where she performed over twenty roles, including Amastre
in its acclaimed production of Handelʼs Xerxes, voted opera production of the year
by USA Today.
The year 1999 marked her debut season with the Metropolitan Opera in productions
of Arnold Schoenbergʼs Moses und Aron and Leos Janacekʼs Katyà Kabanovà. In the
fall of 2003 Jennifer Lane joined the San Francisco Opera for Virgil Thompsonʼs The
Mother of Us All and Janacekʼs The Cunning Little Vixen.
Jennifer Laneʼs recent engagements include Brahmsʼ “Alto Rhapsody” with the
Lexington Symphony, the world premiere of Libby Larsenʼs Every Man Jack with
Sonoma City Opera (role of Charmian London), Handelʼs Messiah with the National
Symphony Orchestra, Kenneth Slowik conducting, and performances throughout
Spain with Capella Ministrers of Monteverdiʼs Orfeo (Messaggiera/Speranza). She
has also just recorded Rameauʼs Pygmalion and Handelʼs Terpsicore with Concert
Royal in New York.
Prior engagements took Jennifer Lane back to San Francisco Opera for Ligetiʼs Le
Grand Macabre and Tschaikovskyʼs Eugene Onegin. She also sang an all-Handel
concert with the New York Collegium, and added two new recordings to her already
extensive list of CDs: Schoenbergʼs song cycle Das Buch Der Hängenden Gärten and
his chamber orchestra arrangement of the Lied der Waldtaube (Naxos), and Antonio
Caldara Cantatas (Gaudeamus).
Other notable engagements include Purcellʼs Dido and Æneas at the Palau de la Musica
in Valencia, Spain, and Œdipus Rex in Glasgow, Scotland. She was also heard
in performances of Messiah, Andrew Parrott conducting, with the Handel and Haydn
Society, and on the subsequent recording released by Arabesque, and with the Or-

chestra della Toscana in Italy; Stravinskyʼs Les Noces with the San Francisco Symphony under
Michael Tilson Thomas; and in Händelʼs Arianna at the Göttingen Festival with Philharmonia
Baroque, Nicholas McGegan conducting.
Ms. Lane had previously appeared at the Göttingen Festival with conductor Nicholas McGegan
in Ariodante, recorded by Harmonia Mundi USA and winner of a Gramophone Award, and
in Giustino (also recorded by HMU). She premiered the title role of Augusta Read Thomasʼ
opera Ligeia, based on the life of Edgar Allen Poe, commissioned and conducted by Mstislav
Rostropovich for his own festival in Evian, France; and performed the dual roles of Dido/Sorceress
for the Mark Morris Dance Groupʼs production of Dido & Æneas, filmed by Rhombus
Media for BRAVO Television, and recorded on CD by CBC Records. The film won awards at
both the Banff Television Festival and the San Francisco International Film Festival, among
others, and has been released on DVD.
Ms. Lane has over forty-five recordings on Harmonia Mundi USA, Naxos, Opus 111, CBC
Records, Koch International, Newport Classic, PGM, Gaudeamus, Centaur, and Arabesque. Her
recent solo disc of Handel arias, “Fury with Red Sparkling Eyes,” was released on Newport
Classic. Her solo disc for Koch, “The Pleasures & Follies of Love,” was chosen as disc of the
month by the journal Alte Musik Aktuell in Germany. A new solo disc of French airs de cour is
available at Magnatune. www.magnatune.com/artists/orinda. With conductor Robert Craft,
she has recorded Igor Stravinskyʼs Threni, Oedipus Rex (Jocasta), A Sermon, a Narrative, and
a Prayer, “Two Songs” by Hugo Wolf, arr. Stravinsky, and Arnold Schoenbergʼs “Gurrelieder”
(Waldtaube) on Koch. All are now re-mastered and re-released by Naxos.
From 1996 to 2005, Jennifer Lane was a member of the faculty of music at Stanford University,
where, in addition to teaching voice and vocal literature, she produced and directed
a period-style production of Dido & Æneas which served as the culminating event in the
Music Departmentʼs year-long 50th anniversary celebration, an evening of five 20th century
American one-act operas, and Mozartʼs The Magic Flute, and where her 17th century vocal
and instrumental collegium musicum celebrated its third year by performing Shadwell &
Drydenʼs adaptation of Shakespeareʼs The Tempest, considered to be the first dramatic opera
in English. Lane has taught master classes at Old Dominion University, Mannes College, CW
Post University, the Royal Academy of Music in London, the Collegio Major Lluis Vives in Valencia,
San Francisco Conservatory, and for the San Francisco Opera Young Artists Program.
She has also served on the faculties of the Lake Placid Institute, the International Baroque
Institute at Longy, and the San Francisco Early Music Society Medieval/Renaissance and Baroque
workshops. Prior to joining the faculty at UNT in January 2007, Ms Lane was associate
professor of voice and opera at the University of Kentucky at Lexington for two years, during
which time two students of hers won Awards in the Metropolitan Opera National Council
District Auditions, and another was a second-place NATS winner.