Program - Krannert Center for the Performing Arts

Baroque, and has offered numerous concerts at Carnegie Hall with the Oratorio Society of NewYork.Ms. Harris has made a habit of varying her career choices by successfully alternating 20th Centuryand contemporary music (Schoenberg's Moses und Aron, Strauss's Elektra, Kurt Weill's Street Scene,Barber's Vanessa, Hagen's Shining Brow, and Shostakovich's Lady MacBeth of Mtsensk) with the greatstandards (the title characters of Norma, Ariadne and Tosca, Alice Ford in Falstaff and LadyMacBeth in MacBeth, et al.) as well as the occasional Baroque masterpieces (Handel's Agrippina,Tolemeo, and Deidamia). In addition to these, she has excelled in the dramatic bel canto roles ofDonizetti (Roberto Devereux, Maria Stuarda, Anna Bolena, Maria Padilla) and Rossini (Semiramide,Ermione, Armida).Brenda Harris has recorded leading roles for Newport Classic, including Scarlatti's Ishmael, Handel'sDeidamia, and Haydn's La Cantarina and The Creation, and on the Vox label, Handel's Tolomeo. Naxosreleased a recording of Shining Brow in the fall of 2008.