09.09 | Die Walküre | Wagner | St. John's, Fulham, London, UK
Back by popular demand, an encore performance of Nina Lorcini's Sieglinde, with the Siegmund of American heldentenor Jon Morrell, in Richard Wagner's Die Walküre. Click here for the concert flyer.
06.09 | Confinement | Leering Buzzard Pictures | New York
Ms. Lorcini appears in an acting role in John McCarty's short feature suspense film, Confinement, filming in June.
06.09 | Rest, Opus 28 | McAndrew
Audio recording of Nina Lorcini singing Ian McAndrew's Rest with The Annex Quartet is now available for download here.
05.09 | Rest , Opus 28 | McAndrew | Toronto
Video recording commences of Rest, a song for mezzosoprano and string quartet, a setting of the poem by Christina Rossetti. Miss Lorcini records the song with The Annex Quartet in Toronto in May 2009.
02.09 | Die Walküre | Wagner | St. John's, Fulham, London, UK
American helden tenor Jon Morrell performs Siegmund to Ms.Lorcini's Sieglinde in a London, UK performance of Richard Wagner's Die Walküre.
The role of Sieglinde, traditionally a soprano role, has, in recent years, been taken on by mezzo-sopranos whose voices excel in range and colour, and are comfortable in zwissenfach roles. Ms. Lorcini brings not only mezzo-soprano richness of colour and depth of tone, but also the gleam in the upper register of a heldensopran.
01.09 | Elektra | R Strauss | One World Symphony | NYC
Ms. Lorcini performs Klytämnestra for the first time, in One World Symphony's production of Elektra, commemorating the 100th anniversary of the opera's premiere.
"Klytämnestra's nightmare aria is one of the most extraordinatry pieces Strauss ever wrote. Beginning with the metallic clanking and rattling of the ornaments with which Klytämnestra decks her racked body, the music becomes bitonal and atonal as she recounts her dream that her bone marrow is melting and that "something" crawls over her as she tries to sleep."
Michael Kennedy
05.08 | Rest , Opus 28 | McAndrew | Toronto
Canadian composer Ian McAndrew has completed Rest, a song for mezzosoprano and string quartet, a setting of the poem by Christina Rossetti. Rest was written for Miss Lorcini, and will soon be recorded.
03.08 | Alto Rhapsody, Op 53 | Brahms | One World Symphony | NYC
Ms. Lorcini makes her One World Symphony debut as soloist for the March 7th and 9th performances of Brahms' Alto Rhapsody.
This transcendent work for contralto, male chorus and orchestra is a setting of verses from Goethe’s Harzreise im Winter. The Rhapsody is a journey from anguish and alienation to a moving plea for redemption, a journey that is dark, intense, urgent and deeply spiritual, by turn.
"Marie and I were sitting in the dining-room when the bell rang, and we heard Brahms go to our mother's room. Soon afterwards, deeply stirring and solemn music reached our ears. We listened. Brahms went away, and our mother came to us in a state of great emotion. Brahms had played her his Rhapsody for an alto voice (op. 53) for the first time."
Eugenie Schumann, daughter of Clara Schumann (from her memoirs)
TBA | Mother of Kings | McAndrew | Amphion Opera | Toronto
Nina will have the honour of creating the role of Eleanor of Aquitaine, the title role of Canadian composer Ian McAndrew's Mother of Kings, a role written specifically for her, in the work's world premiere.
