Edwin Crossley-Mercer to premiere song cycle in Ohio

Edwin Crossley-Mercer

French barihunk Edwin Crossley‐Mercer and American pianist Jason Paul Peterson will premiere a new work by composer Michael Linton as part of their recital at Baldwin Wallace University's Gamble Auditorium on Tuesday, May 24.

"Mute Love" ("Silentium Amoris") is the first of the seventeen‐movement Wilde Songs to be publicly presented. Earlier, the duo premiered Linton's Carmina Catulli at Carnegie Hall in New York, which are based on settings of poems by the Roman poet Catullus. . You can read our previous posts about Carmina Catulli HERE.

A resident of Paris and Berlin, Crossley‐Mercer's repertory ranges from the Baroque through contemporary music. He has performed opera, oratorio, and recitals in Vienna, Paris, Berlin, Glyndebourne, Munich, Amsterdam, Nashville, Los Angeles, Strasbourg, New York, Moscow, Dubai and, most recently, in Dallas as Lescaut in Manon by Jules Massenet.

The prize-­‐winning composer Michael Linton has served on the music faculty of Middle Tennessee State University for over two decades where he teaches music theory and history.

The recital is part of Baldwin Wallace's internationally acclaimed bi‐annual "Art Song Festival," a week-­‐long program of recitals and master classes begun in 1985. The festival is also presenting recitals and master classes by mezzo-­‐soprano Susan Graham, tenor Eduardo Valdes and pianist Bradley Moore. Additional information is available online. 

In January, Crossley-Mercer returns to the Opéra national de Paris to rotate the role of Guglielmo in Mozart's Così fan tutte with fellow barihunk Philippe Sly. 

Elliot Madore returns to North America for two recitals

Elliot Madore

Canadian barihunk Elliot Madore, who has been singing primarily in Europe since becoming part of the ensemble at the Zurich Opera, will be returning to North America for two recitals. Madore studied at Curtis and was a Gerdine Young Artist with the Opera Theatre of St. Louis.

On March 15th, he'll appear with the Baldwin Wallace Art Song Festival outside of Cleveland before heading to his native Canada for a March 26th recital with Music Toronto.  He will perform Robert Schumann’s Balsatzar, op. 57, followed by Schumann’s Liederkreis, op. 39, a song cycle on poems by Joseph von Eichendorff; Francis Poulenc’s Banalités, on poems by Guillaume Apollonaire; and five Charles Ives songs - The Circus Band, Ich grolle nicht, The Side Show, Tom Sails Away and Memories.

After his brief North American tour, he returns to Europe to perform Debussy's Pélleas et Mélisande with the Croatian National Opera in Zagreb and the Bavarian State Opera in Munich.

Watch Elliot Madore in Charpentier & Rameau

 

Elliot Madore and Danielle de Niese in Les Sauvages

A reader wrote us to inform us that Elliot Madore's performance in excerpts from Jean-Philippe Rameau's Les Sauvages with William Christie and the Orchestre des Arts Florissants is available online. Joining him in the cast are Danielle de Niese as Zima, Marcel Beekman as Damon and Laurent Naouri as Don Alvar.

He also performs in Marc-Antoine Charpentier's Te Deum H.146 with Rachel Redmond, Katherine Watson, Marcel Beekman, Reinoud Van Mechelen,  Elliot Madore, fellow barihunk Marc Mauillon and Laurent Naouri.

The remainder of the performance includes Jean-Joseph Cassanéa de Mondonville's In exitu Israel and François-André Danican Philidor's Rondo de Bacchus.

Click HERE to watch the entire performance.

Elliot Madore performing with the Orchestre des Arts Florissants

Madore can next be seen at the Zurich Opera from February 15-March 3 when he sings Harlekin in Richard Strauss' Ariadne auf Naxos. Eva-Maria Westbroek will sing Ariadne and fellow barihunk Erik Anstine will sing Truffaldin.

He next appears in the U.S. on March 15 at Baldwin Wallace University in Berea, Ohio for a song recital of Poulenc, Ives, Wolf, Schumann and others. Tickets are available online.