2005 Young Artist Winner
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Mela Dailey,
Soprano 2005 Young Artist Winner |
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Background Information
Repertoire
As 2005 NFMC Young Artist winner in Women's Voice, 1 2005 Metropolitan Opera District Winner and Metropolitan Opera South Regional Finalist, Mela Dailey has command of both her instrument and stage. She has received recognition in a wide variety of musical genres including opera, oratorio, art song, musical theater, vocal jazz, gospel, country and popular music. Ms. Dailey made her professional debut at Carnegie Hall in 2003 with the Conspirare Company of Voices directed by Craig Hella Johnson, a group with whom she also recently recorded a CD at Skywalker Ranch in California for national release. She has been a recipient of the New York University Talent Scholarship for achievement in musical theater, a winner of the Second Annual University of Texas Opera Gala Aria Competition and was selected as a New Young Artist with the Victoria Bach Festival.
Having graduated summa cum laude from Texas State University, she earned her Master's degree in Opera Performance at the University of Texas at Austin. Ms. Dailey served as Artistic Director of Contemporary Worship for Bethany United Methodist Church in Austin from 1999 until 12004, and for the 2004 - 2005 season was on the voice faculty at Texas State University. This year's highlights include her performances as Musetta in La Boheme with Opera in the Heights, and a performance of a commissioned work for soprano and strings by Wayne Oquin with members of the Austin Symphony Orchestra for the International Conference on the Common Experience on Hatred at Texas State University. Upcoming performances include the role of Ines in II Trovatore with Austin Lyric Opera and Opera in the Heights and a return engagement at Festival Hill at Round Top in the role of the Mother in Amahl and the Night Visitors.
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Art Songs |
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| M. Babbitt* | Three Theatrical Songs |
| S. Barber | Sure On This Shining Night |
| V. Bellini | Il fervido desiderio Vaga luna, che inargenti Per pieta, bell' idol mio |
| W. Bolcom | Amor |
| J. Corigliano | Three Irish Folksong Settings (for soprano and flut) |
| M. de Falla | Seven Spanish Folksongs |
| G. Faure | Claire de lune Apres un reve |
| F. Poulenc | Violon Fleurs |
| F. Schubert | An die Musik Du bist wie eine Blume Gretchen am Spinnrade Das Hirt auf dem Felsen (for soprano, clarinet and piano) |
| W. Shield | When William at Eve |
| R. Strauss | Allerseelen Cacilie |
| Opera and Oratorio Arias | |
| J. Adams | This is prophetic from "Nixion in China" |
| J. S. Bach | Quia respexit from "Magnificat" |
| V. Bellini | Oh! Quante volte from "I Capuleti e I Montecchi" |
| G. Donizetti | Ah, tardai troppo...O luce di quest' anima from "Linda di Camounix" |
| C. Gounod | Ah! Je Veux vivre from "Romeo et Juliette" |
| F. Lehar | Es lebt' eine Vilja from "Die Lustige Witwe" |
| J. Massenet | Adieu, notre petite table from "Manon" |
| G. C. Menotti | Steal me, sweet thief from "The Old Maid and the Thief" |
| W. A. Mozart | Ach, ich fuhl's from "Die Zauberflote" |
| G. Puccini | Chi'il bel sogno from "La
Rondine" o mio babbino caro from "Gianni Schicchi" |
| I. Stravinsky | no word from Tom from "The Rake's Progress" |
| Broadway Songs | |
| J. Kern | Can't Help Lovin' That Man from "Showboat" |
| R. Rodgers | If I loved You from
"Carousel" You'll Never Walk Alone from "Carousel" |
| S. Sondheim | Green Finch and Linnet Bird from "Sweeney Todd" |
| M. Wilson | Goodnight, My Someone from "The Music Man" |