Julie Lyn Barber, Coloratura Soprano
Opera and Operetta
Roles Performed:
Leonard Bernstein
--- West Side Story (Maria)
Charles Gounod
--- Roméo et Juliette (Juliette)
Gilbert and Sullivan
--- The Mikado (Yum Yum)
--- Patience (Patience)
Massenet
---Werther (Sophie)
W.A. Mozart
--- Die Zauberflöte (Queen of the Night)
Henry Purcell
--- The Fairy Queen (Titania)
Sondheim
---Sweeney Todd (Johanna)
Scenes Performed From:
Belini
--- I Puritani (Elvira)
Leonard Bernstein
--- Candide (Cunegonde)
Bizet
---Carmen (Micaela)
Donizetti
--- Lucia di Lammermoor (Lucia)
Carlisle Floyd
--- Susannah (Susannah)
Humperdinck
--- Hansel und Gretel (Gretel)
Mozart
--- Magic Flute (First Woman)
Puccini
--- La Boheme (Mimi)
Henry Purcell
--- Dido and Aeneas (Dido)
Johann Strauss
--- Die Fledermaus (Adele)
Ambroise Thomas
--- Hamlet (Ophelie)
Verdi
--- Rigoletto (Gilda)
Individual Arias:
From The Ballad of Baby Doe by Floyd
--- Always through the changing
--- Dearest Mama
--- The Silver Aria
From I Puritani by Bellini
--- Qui la voce...Vien diletto
From Giulio Cesare by Handel
--- V'adoro, pupille
--- Da Tempeste
--- Piangero
From Les Contes d'Hoffman by Offenbach
--- Les oiseaux dans la charmille
From Hamlet by Thomas
--- A vos jeux, mes amis
From Candide by Bernstein
--- Glitter and be gay
Concert Aria by Mozart
--- Vorrei spiegarvi, o Dio!
From Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail by Mozart
--- Durch Zaertlichkeit
From Cosi fan Tutte by Mozart
--- In uomini
From Don Giovanni by Mozart
-- Batti, batti
-- Vedrai carino
From Don Pasquale by Donizetti
-- So anch'io la virtu magica
From Linda di Chamounix by Donizetti
-- O Luce di quest' anima
From Lucia di Lammermoor by Donizetti
-- O dolce suono (mad scene)
From Un Ballo in Maschera, by Verdi
-- Sapper vorreste
-- Volta la terrea
Orchestral Solo and Chamber
Orchestral / Chamber Solo Work:
J. S. Bach
--- Magnifcat
Beethoven
--- Choral Fantasy
Britten
--- Rejoice in the Lamb
Carissimi
--- Jephte
Andrew Carter
--- Musick's Jubilee
Handel
--- Gloria
--- Israel in Egypt
--- Messiah (selections)
Schubert
--- Mass in G
Vivaldi
---Gloria
Individual songs/arias
J.S. Bach
--- B Minor Mass (Laudamus Te)
--- Cantata BWV 84 (Ich esse mit Freuden)
--- Cantata BWV 21 (Seufzer, Traenen)
--- Cantata BWV 51 (Jauchzett Gott)
--- Cantata BWV 10 (Herr, der du stark und mächtig bist)
--- St. John Passion (Ich folge dire gleichfalls)
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--- St. Matthew Passion (Ich will dir mei
G. F. Handel
--- Acis and Galatea (As when the dove)
--- Joshua (O had I Jubal's lyre)
--- Samson (Let the bright seraphim)
Haydn
---The Creation (With verdure clad)
W.A. Mozart
---Davidde Penitente (Fra l'oscure)
--- Exsultate jubilate (Alleluja)
Vivaldi
--- Sorge vermiglia in ciel RV. 667 (Sorge vermiglia...Nasce il sol)
Duets with Mezzo-Soprano:
J.S. Bach
--- Christ lag in Todesbanden BWV. 4 (Den Tod Niemand zwingen kunnt)
Monteverdi
--- Vespers of 1615 (Pulchra es)
--- L'incoronazione di Poppea (Pur ti miro)
Henry Purcell
--- King Arthur (Two daughters of this aged stream)
--- The Maid's Last Prayer (No, resistance is but vain)
Barbara Strozzi
--- Begli occhi Op. 3, No. 9
Recital Repertoire
French
Ernest Chausson
- Cantique de l'epouse
- Le charme
- Les heures
Claude Debussey
- C'est l'extase
Henri Duparc
- La vie anterieure
- Extase
- Soupir
W.A. Mozart
- Dans un bois
Sebastien Le Camus
- Que la voix divine me touche
Francis Poulenc
La Courte Paille
Kurt Weill
- Youkali
- Je ne t'aime pas
- Complainte de la Seine
German
Franz Schubert
- Gretchen am Spinnrade
- Heidenroeslein
- Auf dem Wasser zu singen
- Du bis die Ruh
- Dass sie hier gewesen
- An die Nachtigall
- Die Forelle
- Du holde Kunst
Richard Strauss
- Mein vater hat gesagt
Hugo Wolf
- Das verlassene Maegdelein
- Ich hab' in Penna
- Ach des Knaben Augen
- Storchenbotschaft
- Nun wandre Maria
- Schlafendes Jesuskind
- In dem Schatten meiner Locken
Hungarian
Zoltan Kodaly
- A Csitari
- Dus
- Huszarnota
- Siralmas
English
Samual Barber
- Sure on this shining night
Benjamin Britten
- 'Tis the last rose of summer
- Avenging and bright
- The shooting of his dear
- Bonny at morn
- The Soldier and the Sailor
- Songs from the Chinese
Ernest Charles
- Message
Aaron Copland
- Old American Songs (voice and guitar)
- Night
- Alone
- Going to heaven
- Why do they shut me out of heaven?
John Dowland
- Fine knacks for ladies
- In darkness let me dwell
- Sorrow, stay
- Time's eldest son
- Then sit thee down
- When others say venite
- Come again, sweet love doth now invite
- Say love, if ever thou didst find
- If my complaints
- Flow my tears
- Weep you no more, sad fountains
Purcell
- What Can We Poor Females Do?
- Cupid, the Slyest Rogue
- The Fatal Hour
- We Sing to Him
- Thrice Happy Lovers
- Since from my dear
- Man is for the woman made
- Evening Hymn
- Music for a while
- Sweeter than roses
- If music be the food of love
- I attempt from love's sickness to fly
- When I have often heard