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ARIADNE GREIF, soprano
ARIADNE GREIF, praised for her "elastic and round high notes"(classiqueinfo), made her major orchestral debut in April singing Witold Lutoslawski's Chantefleurs et Chantefables with the American Symphony Orchestra. Last season, she starred as the title role in Ravel's L'enfant et les sortileges, Ivona in Jeff Myers' The Hunger Art, Lucy in Menotti's The Telephone, Sandmann in a concert version of Hansel und Gretel, Phaedra in Christopher Park's new opera, Phaedra and Hippolytus, and the only female role, Madeline, in Debussy's unfinished opera La Chute de la Maison Usher with the Opera Francais de New York. This season, she will perform at the Aldeburgh Festival in the UK. After three semi-staged performances of the piece, she will make her Jordan Hall debut in Boston in the first staged performance of La Testa di Santa Caterina, a mini-mono-opera by Matti Kovler. In March she premieres The Jabberwocky, a new piece by her longtime collaborator Ryan Chase, with the up-and-coming new music ensemble Contemporaneous. In the fall she gave two recitals, tackled Schubert's Winterreise for the first time, and returned to Ensemble 212 in New York for a performance of Bach's Wedding Cantata. Other projects last spring included a shared recital of Barber's complete vocal works at the Bruno Walter Auditorium at Lincoln Center; a shared recital of unaccompanied music with the avant garde's veteran champion, cellist Madeline Shapiro; a recital of Dadaist 20th century music; and a world premiere as Galileo in a piece by Erol Gurol for eight cellos, soprano, and choir to the heretical text of Galileo's Starry Messenger. An avid champion of new music, in the 2008-2009 season she made her Carnegie Hall debut as part of the Upshaw-Golijov program, premiering pieces written for her by Elena Langer; gave the world premiere of Aaron Dai's Con Furia with the Chelsea Symphony; made her Fisher Center debut singing Ainu Dreams, new orchestral songs by Greg Armbruster; won the Bard Conservatory Concerto Competition singing Witold Lutoslawski's Chantefleurs et Chantefables; and premiered The Door, by Ryan Chase, with the Mannes Orchestra. Ariadne is the founder and the artistic director of Uncommon Temperament. She sang with the Mannes Baroque Chamber Players for her entire undergraduate stay, performing, among other things, the role of "Dafne" in Handel's Apollo e Dafne. Her mentors in the baroque world have included Arthur Haas, Nancy Wilson, and Myron Lutzke. A California native, in her early career as a "boy soprano," she toured internationally with the Los Angeles Childrens Chorus, performed as "Sem" in Britten's Noye's Fludde, and, among other things, sang in the premiere of Tobias Picker's Fantastic Mr. Fox at the Los Angeles Opera under the baton of Peter Ash. Drop her a line .
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