Lucille Beer
MahlerFest
welcomes back Lucille Beer, who appeared with us with great success
in MahlerFest XII and XIII. Receiving international acclaim for
her performances in opera houses and concert stages around the
world, Lucille Beer is noted by critics to possess a voice described
as rare, memorable, rich, warm and ardent and is continually praised
for her superb musicianship. A native New Yorker, she is a graduate
of the Mannes College of Music and received her Master of Music
degree from the Juilliard School as a student of Daniel Ferro.
Ms. Beer won the Metropolitan Opera Auditions in 1982 and made
her Metropolitan Opera debut in 1983 in Ravel's L'Enfant et
les Sortileges followed by appearances in numerous other productions.
She was recently heard at the Metropolitan in their production
of Elektra under James Levine. Ms. Beer has also appeared
with the New York City Opera as Nancy in Martha, Prince
Charming in Cendrillon and Suzuki in Madame Butterfly,
Opera de Nice as Dorabella in Cosi fan Tutte, Opera Theatre
of St. Louis as Bradamante in Handel's Alcina and Opera
de Nantes as Erda in Siegfried. She also embraces the contralto
repertoire with ease and as a result sings a wide range of operatic
and symphonic works.
In addition to opera, Lucille Beer regularly performs in Lieder
recitals and oratorios and has appeared with many of the world's
leading symphony orchestras and conductors including the New York
Philharmonic under Erich Leinsdorf in Debussy's La Damoiselle
Elue, the St. Louis Symphony with Leonard Slatkin in Beethoven's
Ninth Symphony, the Houston Symphony conducted by Christoph
Eschenbach in Mahier's Eighth Symphony, Orchestre Philhannonique
de Strasbourg in Mahler's Symphony No. 2 with Theodor Guschlbauer,
Lincoln Center's Mostly Mozart Festival in Mozart's Mass in
c minor under Robert Shaw, and with Leonard Bernstein performed
his Songfest in Rome, Chicago, New York and Washington,,
D.C. where the performance was broadcast live on the PBS television
network. Ms. Beer appeared with the Colorado Symphony in Verdi's
Requium and Prokofieff's Alexander Nevsky. Ms. Beer
is also in great demand for the music of Gustav Mahler and has
interpreted all of his major song cycles and symphonies with uncommon
distinction. She gave a special Mahler recital for the Gustav
Mahler Society, New York.
Some of the highlights from recent and upcoming seasons include
Schubert's Mass in A with the Orchestre Philharmonique
De Luxembourg, a concert performance of Tristan und Isolde
with the Prague Radio Symphony, Mahler's Symphony No. 2
with the North Carolina Symphony, Verdi's Requiem with
the Colorado Springs Symphony, Ravel's Sheherazade and
Prokofiev's Alexander Nevsky with the Duluth Superior Symphony,
Mahler's Kindertotenlieder in Mexico City, Handel's Messiah
and Bach's Christmas Oratorio with the Evansville Philharmonic,
Mahler's Symphonies No. 2 and 3 and the Ruckert Lieder
in Boulder with the Colorado MahlerFest, Mozart's Requiem
with the Albany Pro Musica, Berlioz' Les Nuits D'Ete with
the Albany Symphony, an evening of opera arias with the Minnesota
Orchestra and the Ravinia Festival, and Mahler's Songs of a
Wayfarer with the Las Cruces Symphony Orchestra.
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