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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
January 13, 2003 |
FOR INFORMATION CONTACT
Tiffany A. Kirkland (404) 364-8447
tkirkland@oglethorpe.edu
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Atlanta-born Brenda Boozer to Perform at Oglethorpe University
Atlanta – With a triumphant career spanning 13 seasons at
the Metropolitan Opera, Atlanta-born, mezzo-soprano Brenda Boozer
looks forward to returning to her hometown. Oglethorpe University
presents Brenda Boozer on Tuesday, February 25 at 8 p.m. in the
Conant Performing Arts Center. Ford Lallerstedt will accompany her
on the piano. General admission is $10, no reserved seating.
Boozer has performed leading mezzo-soprano roles with many of the
world’s most prestigious opera companies including the Paris Opera,
Covent Garden, Lyric Opera of Chicago, San Francisco Opera,
Frankfurt Opera, Netherlands Opera, Teatro de Santiago and Santa Fe
Opera. She has sung with such great conductors as Carlo Maria
Guilini, with whom she recorded Meg Page in the Grammy nominated
Deutsche Grammophon recording of Verdi’s Falstaff, James Levine,
Seiji Ozawa, Erich Leinsdorf, and Ricardo Chailly.
Her Oglethorpe recital will include operatic arias by Handel and
Bizet, plus songs by Canteloube and Richard Strauss. A special
feature will be the performance of a song cycle composed by her
husband and accompanist, Dr. Ford Lallerstedt; the grouping is based
on texts by Edna St. Vincent Millay and entitled Mine the Harvest.
She will close her recital with a series of spirituals.
In the past five seasons, together with her husband, organist,
pianist and conductor Ford Lallerstedt, she has performed over 150
recitals to standing ovations in concert halls, universities and
churches. She was a frequent guest on “The Tonight Show” with Johnny
Carson, “Late Night with David Letterman,” and ABC TV’s “Wide World
Entertainment.”
Boozer will also hold a master class for singers and actors on
Wednesday, February 26 at noon in Conant Performing Arts Center. The
class is free and open to the public.
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