french soprano natalie dessay makes her first davies symphony hall

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE /February 26, 2014
(High resolution images of Natalie Dessay are available for download from the San Francisco Symphony’s Online Photo Library)
FRENCH SOPRANO NATALIE DESSAY MAKES HER FIRST
DAVIES SYMPHONY HALL APPEARANCE, MARCH 15
Solo recital includes French songs and German Lieder
SAN FRANCISCO, February 26 – Soprano Natalie Dessay makes her Davies Symphony Hall debut in a solo recital of
French and German art songs March 15 at 8 pm. She is accompanied by her long-time collaborator, pianist Philippe
Cassard. Her recital is part of a spring tour that includes performances in Boston, New York (Carnegie Hall), Canada,
Korea, and France.
Dessay has enjoyed a highly-acclaimed career as a coloratura soprano in major opera productions in Europe as well as
with New York’s Metropolitan Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Chicago Opera, and she sang the role of Antonia in San Francisco
Opera’s production of Offenbach’s Tales of Hoffman in 2013. Dessay has recorded 20 CDs and been featured in as many
DVD recordings including director Philippe Béziat’s 2013 documentary film, Becoming Traviata. She is awarded the title of
Kammersangerin by the Wiener Staatsoper and is a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor. In 2013 Dessay announced her
decision to leave the opera stage to reshape her career as a dramatic actress and recitalist.
A coloratura soprano, Natalie Dessay made her opera debut with French repertoire in the roles of Olympia at Paris
National Opera and Lakmé at the Opéra Comique. She has sung Mozart (Königin der Nacht, Konstanze); Richard Strauss
(Zerbinetta in Ariadne auf Naxos, Sophie in Rosenkavalier, Aminta in Die Schweigsamefrau); Stravinsky’s Rossignol at
the Théâtre du Châtelet and in Berlin; Ophélie (Hamlet) at the Grand Théâtre of Geneva, Capitole de Toulouse, Théâtre
du Châtelet, Covent Garden and Liceu of Barcelona; and Zerbinetta (Ariadne auf Naxos) at the Metropolitan Opera of
New York and at the Opera de Paris.
She has performed Massenet’s Manon at the Grand Théâtre of Geneva, at the Liceu, in San Francisco, in Chicago and at
the Opéra de Paris; Mélisande (Pelléas et Mélisande) in Glasgow and at the Theater an der Wien; Juliette (Gounod’s
Roméo et Juliette) at the Metropolitan Opera; Pamina (Zauberflöte) in Santa Fe; Lucia (Lucia di Lammermoor) at Opéra
de Paris, at the Metropolitan Opera under James Levine’s baton, and in Moscow under Valeri Guerguiev’s baton; Amina
(Sonnambula) at the Opéra de Lyon, at the Théâtre des Champs Elysées, at the Metropolitan Opera and at the Opéra de
Paris; Marie (La Fille du Régiment) in London, Vienna, New York and Paris; Musetta (La Bohème) and Cleopatra (Giulio
Cesare) at the Opera de Paris; and La Traviata in Santa Fe, in Japan with the Teatro Regio di Torino, in Aix-en-Provence,
at the Wiener Staatsoper and at the Metropolitan Opera of New York.
Calendar editors, please note:
NATALIE DESSAY
Saturday, March 15 at 8 pm
Natalie Dessay soprano
Philippe Cassard piano
Clara Schumann
Brahms
Duparc
Strauss
Fauré
Poulenc
Debussy
Liebst du um Schönheit, Geheimes Flüstern hier und dort, Sie liebten sich beide, Er ist
gekommen in Sturm und Regen
Lerchengesang, Opus 70, Meine Lieder, Opus 106, Geheimnis, Opus 71
L'Invitation au voyage, Extase
Ich schwebe, Wasserrose, Frühlingsgedränge, Die Nacht
Après un rêve, Clair de lune, Prison, Mandoline, En sourdine
Fiançailles pour rire, La Dame d'André, Dans l'herbe, Il vole, Mon cadavre est doux
comme un gant, Violon, Fleurs
Apparition, Romance d'Ariel
Note: the Orchestra does not perform on this program.
Tickets: $30-$80.
Available at sfsymphony.org, by phone at 415-864-6000, and at the Davies Symphony Hall Box Office, on Grove Street
between Van Ness Avenue and Franklin Street in San Francisco.
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