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Lise Davidsen in recital

with James Baillieu

,Barbican Hall
Lise Davidsen singing on stage portrait

The hype surrounding the young Norwegian soprano is nothing short of stratospheric, and the luxurious warmth of her voice will be on full display in an evening of lieder at their most darkly romantic.

The thrilling rise of Lise Davidsen has been one of the big stories in opera in recent seasons, and she’s capable both of glittering coloratura and strikingly powerful characterisation. A programme of Brahms, Strauss, Sibelius and Grieg promises real vocal drama in her Barbican recital debut.

And true enough: London audiences probably know Davidsen best as an impetuous Freia in Das Rheingold – or perhaps the finest Ariadne Glyndebourne has ever seen. But her sense of character and radiant tone shines through everything she performs, and it’ll be fascinating to hear her interpretation of Sibelius’s haunting Nordic creation myth Luonnotar, as well as the opera-in-miniature of Schumann’s Maria Stuart cycle.
 

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This performance will end at approximately 9.15pm, including a 20 minute interval.

Programme

Brahms ‘Auf dem Kirchhofe’
‘Da Unten im Tale’
‘Mädchenlied’ from 5 Songs, Op 107 No 5
‘Liebestreu’ from 6 Songs, Op 3 No 1
‘Von ewiger Liebe’ from 4 Songs, Op 43 No 1
Schumann Gedichte der Königin Maria Stuart
Sibelius Luonnotar
Five Songs, Op 37
Grieg 'Dereinst Gedanke Mein'
‘Zür Rosenzeit’
‘Ein Traum’
R Strauss 'Zueignung'
‘Allerseelen’
‘Die Georgine’
'Wiegenlied'
‘Malven’
‘Befreit’
'Caecilie'

Performers

Lise Davidsen soprano
James Baillieu piano

Programme

‘Not just a voice. The voice.‘
New York Times
‘Her voice is a magnificent organ, with stops that can produce great swells of firm tone as well as threads of delicately shimmering silver. What fabulous potential there is here.‘
The Telegraph, 26 June 2017

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