Lisa Newill-Smith
New Music Soprano & Dramatic Coloratura
Opera
French Opera
Micaela, Carmen, Bizet
Juliette, Roméo et Juliette, Gounod
Blanche, Dialogues des Carmélites, Poulenc
Antonia, Les contes d'Hoffman, Offenbach
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Italian Opera
ViolVioletta, La Traviata, Verdi
Liu, Turandot, Puccini
Musetta, La bohème, Puccini
Adina, L'Elisir d'Amore, Donizetti
Giulietta, I Capuletti e Montecchi, Bellini
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Classical/Baroque
Konstanze, Die Entführung aus dem Serail
Donna Anna, Don GiovanniDonnaD
Contessa, Le nozze di Figaro
Donna Elvira, Don Giovanni
Fioridligi, Cosi fan tutte
Ilia, Idomeno
Pamina, Die Zauberflöte
Servilia, La Clemenza di Tito
Zerlina, Don Giovanni
Susanna, Le nozze di Figaro
Alcina, Alcina, Handel
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German Opera
Infantin, Der Zwerg, Zemlinsky
Marzelline, Fidelio, Beethoven
Ännchen, Der Freischütz, von Weber
Echo, Ariadne auf Naxos, R. Strauss
Nyade, Ariadne auf Naxos, R. Strauss
Gretel, Hänsel und Gretel, Humperdinck
Helene, Hin und Zurück, Hindemith
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Operetta
Rosalinde, Die Fledermaus, J. Strauss
Hanna Glawari, Lustige Witwe, Léhar
Josephine, HMS Pinafore, Gilbert and Sullivan
Wanda, La Grande Duchesse de Gerolstein, Offenbach
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English Opera
Governess, Turn of the Screw, Britten
Anne Truelove, The Rake's Progress, Stravinsky
Monica, The Medium
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Songs & Concert Works
French
Ariettes oubliées, Debussy
Au pay où se fait la guerre, Duparc
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Requiem, Fauré
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Italian
Verdi Songs
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Petite Messe Solanelle, Rossini
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Classical/Baroque
La tempesta, Marianna Martines*
Che non mi disse un di, Op. 4, Josina van Boezelaer*
Daniel, Susanna, Handel
Requiem in D Minor, Mozart
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German
Op. 13, Clara Schumann*
Die Lorelei, Clara Schumann
Totengesänge, Ruth Schonthal*
3 Lieder, Luise Greger
Erlkönig, Emilie Mayer
Op. 1, Fanny Hensel
8 Gedichte aus letze Blätter, R. Strauss
Warnung, Schumann
Widmung, Schumann
Ganymed, Schubert
Liebestreu, Brahms
5 Lieder, Alma Mahler
5 Songs, Alma Mahler
4 Lieder, Alma Mahler
Excerpts from Rückert Lieder, G. Mahler
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Ein Deutsches Requiem, Brahms
Choral Fantasie, Beethoven
Elias, Mendelssohn
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English
Shakespeare Songs, Amy Beach*
3 Browning Songs, Amy Beach
Emily Dickinson Songs, Copland
Folk Songs, Copland
I grew a rose, Florence Price
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*Visit my blog for information on these composers
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Contemporary Works
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Works with Piano
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Leinolaulut, Saariaho (2007)
Try me good king, Larsen (2000)
My heart is awake, Coley (2018)
Femmes en fables, Aboulker (1999)
Atwood Songs, Léon (2009)
Je t'aime, Aboulker (2003)
Totengesänge, Ruth Schonthal (1962/63)
Wenn, Mundry (2006)
Works for Ensemble
Singer 2, I saw the world collapse & it was just a word, Khan (2019)
World Premiere: Singer, Books 1, 3, 4, 5, voice, books and FIRE, Ullmann (premiered 2023)
Soprano: Ëjszaka & Reggel, Ligeti (1955)
Soprano 1: Clocks and Clouds, Ligeti (1972)
Soprano 2: Nuits, Xenakis (1968)
Soprano 1: Dodecameron, Malec (1970)
Soprano: Love Songs, Vivier (1977)
Sonic Meditations, Oliveros (1974)
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Works for Solo Voice
Sequenza III, Berio (1965)
Manual for the Use of Wings, Lyons (2017)
Jeder Mensch trägt in Zimmer in Sich, Gardella (2013)
World Premiere: Capriccio, Gleave (2021)
The people could fly, Jones (2020)
Brief - Vokalise, Nemtsov (2012)
women's work (collective mend), DeJarnett (2018)
Adantium-Capillus Veneris I, Czernowin (2015)
Social Sounds of Whales at Night, Doolittle (2007)
Only, Feldman (1946)
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Opera/Oratorio
World Premiere: Te deum, Stevens (2013)
World Premiere: Young Martha, Absolved Passions, Wishart (2014)
World Premiere: Queen Gwenevere, Merlin, Beal (2018)
Stephanie, To Hell and Back, Heggie (2007)
Helena, Orest, Trojahn (2010)
Clémence, L'Amor de Loin, Saariaho (2000)
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