Ah, mai non cessate.................................... Stefano Donaudy
Amor mi fa cantare.................................... Donaudy
Date abbiento al mio dolore..................... Donaudy
Maggiolata.................................................... Donaudy
Frühlingsmorgen......................................... Gustav Mahler
Hans und Grethe......................................... Mahler
Ich atmet’ einen linden Duft..................... Mahler
Liebst du um Schönheit............................. Mahler
Um schlimme Kinder artig zu machen... Mahler
From Canciones clásicas españolas.......... Fernando Obradors
Will There Really Be a Morning?............. Richard Hundley
Come Ready and See Me.......................... Hundley
The Bird......................................................... John Duke
Nuvoletta....................................................... Samuel Barber
Chansons de Ronsard................................. Darius Milhaud

Coloratura soprano Barbara Kilduff has enjoyed a career on both the American and European stages in opera, oratorio and song. A national winner of the Metropolitan Opera Council auditions, she went on to win first prize in the famed Munich International Competition and the silver medal in the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow. Within a year of these competitions, debuted with the Bavarian State Opera, the Vienna State Opera and the Hamburg State Opera as Zerbinetta in Richard Strauss’ Ariadne auf Naxos. She made her Metropolitan Opera debut in the same role in 1987 with Jessye Norman, conducted by James Levine, and has continued in roles including Adele in Die Fledermaus, Cleopatra in Julius Caesar and Blondchen in Die Entführung aus dem. She has also performed leading roles to great acclaim at the Bavarian State Opera, La Scala, in Vienna and San Diego.

She’s appeared in opera and oratorio under Mistislav Rostropovich, Charles Dutoit, Leonard Slatkin and Pierre Boulez. As a recitalist Kilduff has appeared in numerous artist series in the United States and has presented master classes at universities and colleges. In the New England area she has appeared in Poulenc’s Gloria with the Chorus Pro Musica and was featured in 2002 in the Schocken-Gessner series in a recital with Brian Moll in Pickman Hall at the Longy School of Music in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Brian Moll is music director of the opera program at the Boston Conservatory of Music and is also chair of the collaborative program at the Longy School of Music in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He has performed as a keyboardist with Emmanuel Music and the Handel & Haydn Chorus and Orchestra in Boston, and has also served as assistant conductor for productions of Boston Lyric Opera and for the Opera North Summer Festival, and has appeared in the Strings in the Mountains Festival in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. Moll has given recitals as a pianist and organist in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Japan, France, and throughout the United States, and has recently appeared with singers Barbara Kilduff, Barbara Quintiliani, Paul Sperry, Sheri Greenawald, Gerald Seminatore and Kevin Deas, along with many others. Moll has played in such prestigious halls as Vienna's Mozartsaal, the Haydnsaal at the Esterhazy Castle in Eisenstadt, Austria, Tokyo's Lilia Hall, and Boston's Jordan Hall.

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