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Deborah Raymond April 26th 3PM
Opera Soprano
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American Soprano Deborah Raymond has sung extensively in Europe and the United States. She made her critically acclaimed debut as Salome in 1988 at the Semper Opera in Dresden/Germany in Joachim Herz's production which was televised throughout Europe. Of her performance OpernWelt wrote: "Deborah Raymond's voice culminates in a rapturous top. One has seldom experienced such a sensitive princess since Cebotari". This performance is available on DVD. Subsequently Ms. Raymond has performed the role of Salome in other German theaters, with Utah Opera, Opera Carolina, Arizona Opera, Des Moines Metro Opera and covered in the Luc Bondy production at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, and in the Peter Hall production at San Francisco Opera.
Other roles performed include Marie in Wozzeck, Tatiana in Eugene Onegin, and Gerhilde in Die Walküre, singing at Deutsche Oper Berlin, Stadttheater Aachen, Opera Forum Enschede/NL, the Netherlands Opera, Bolshoi Opera of Belorus, Minsk, Theatre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels.
She recorded die Frau in Erwartung with the Netherlands Radio Symphony Orchestra, and performed it in Indianapolis, IN and Flagstaff, AZ. She was featured as Zoe in Stephen Climax by Hans Zender and as Eine Dirne, (composed for her), in the world premiere of Reigen by Philippe Boesmans at the Theatre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels, Strasbourg and the Théatre du Chatelet in Paris, directed by Luc Bondy. Reigen is available on Compact Disc and the filmed version was seen on television throughout Europe.
Added to her repertoire in the USA are Mimi in La Bohème, Nedda in I Pagliacci, Cio-Cio San in Madama Butterfly and Tosca with Indianapolis Opera, Virginia Opera, Florentine Opera, Opera Carolina, Mobile Opera, Pamiro Opera, Nevada Opera, and Sacramento Opera. Her debut at the Spoleto Festival USA in 1997 as Marie in Wozzeck was a personal triumph, where she was also featured in Schoenberg’s second String Quartet,(again performed in 2001 with the Chicago String Quartet for the Sedona Chamber Music Festival), Berg’s Sieben frühe Lieder and Ravel’s Chansons Madécasses. Of her Tosca one critic wrote,
"Although Raymond's voice is more rounded, less reedy, she often reminded me of the legendary Magda Olivero".
Ms. Raymond is Assistant Professor of Voice at Northern Arizona University and performs regularly on Faculty Chamber Concerts as well as in recital. While teaching full-time at the university, she has also performed Cio-Cio San in Madama Butterfly and Tosca with Nevada Opera, Tosca and Mimi in La Boheme in Michigan, and has appeared as soprano soloist in the Verdi Requiem, Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Samuel Barber’s Knoxville:Summer of 1915, Mozart’s C Minor Mass, and Britten’s War Requiem with the Flagstaff Symphony. She has premiered new works with the NAU Orchestra, and recently performed the Liebestod from Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde with this orchestra as well as the Missoula Symphony, where she also sang the Poulenc Gloria. Last season she performed Tosca, semi-staged, with the NAU Orchestra. She just performed her first Mozart role, Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni with Arizona Opera last month.
In addition to teaching at NAU, Ms. Raymond has established a reputation with summer opera programs, having taught at the renowned Seagle Colony in New York for four years, and two summers in Italy as Program Coordinator and Voice Professor with Flagstaff in Fidenza, an opera program founded by her husband Nando Schellen, Director of Opera at NAU.
All concerts are on Sunday at 3 PM
at the Saugerties United Methodist Church
on the corner of Washington Avenue & Post Street
Admission $12 - Seniors $10 - Students Free
BOOK of FIVE Tickets $40.00
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