VENGEANCE, FOLLIES AND GROWTH – How Opera Has Used the Mezzo-soprano voice to Tell Coming of Age Stories
MEZZO-SOPRANO Alexandra Meier PIANO Lucy Colquhoun
How do you become an adult? By avenging your father’s death? Falling in love? Challenging your friend to a duel? Or going on a journey through Europe to find yourself? Opera has many answers to this question… as well as answers on how to fail in this endeavour.
Join mezzo-soprano Alexandra Meier in summoning the furies of vengeance with Händel, experiencing the excitement of desire and love with Mozart and Strauss, being confronted with the aftermath of limerence with Massenet, and more, as she explores coming of age tales in opera through the lens of characters sung by the mezzo-soprano voice type.
