Talise Trevigne At the Statue of Venus Featuring Music by Jake Heggie and Glen Roven Accompanied by the Composers Natural Selection Jake Heggie The Santa Fe Songs 6. Spring, 1948 (4:32) by Christopher Buckley 7. Listening to jazz now (3:58) by Jimmy Santiago Baca 8. Signs and Portents (4:00) by Jane Lin 9. The Boy Soldier (2:01) by N. Scott Momaday 10. Bowl (2:36) by Valery Martinez 11. Flying Backbone (2:34) by Christopher Buckley 12. Bone Bead (2:42) by Thomas Fox Averill 13. Sowing the Pecos Wilderness (2:16) by Thomas Fox Averill Glen Roven At the Statue of Venus Text by Terrance McNally 14. “The slacks were a mistake.” (3:46) 15. “It was a sexy voice.” (1:52) 16. “Look at all those women.” (4:03) 17. “It’s him!” (5:35) 18. A Lucky Child (5:20) 19. “Will I know him?” (3:24) Jake Heggie 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Texts by Gini Savage Creation (2:47) Animal Passion (3:15) Alas! Alak! (2:27) Indian Summer - Blue (4:33) Joy Alone (Connection) (3:23) Ms Trevigne is represented exclusively worldwide by Novo Artists, Inc. Please note: we have done due diligence in meticulously serching out all copyright holders. If we have inadvertently missed contacting a copyright holder, please contact gprrecords.com Talise Trevigne is a singer recognized for the “sheer beauty of her voice” and “exquisite stage presence” who continues to receive praise for her compelling portrayals of many of opera’s leading ladies including Violetta, Mimì, Juliette, Gilda, Micaëla, and Manon. Critics have deemed her Lucia as “perfect Bel Canto singing” and “utterly ravishing.” She has also performed principal roles in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, Les Malheurs D’Orphée, Händel’s Deidamia, Les Dialogues des Carmélites, The Tempest, Der Rosenkavalier, and Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice. In 2008 she garnered Britain’s coveted Royal Philharmonic Society Music Award for her Violetta in Graham Vick’s La Traviata with Birmingham Opera and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Equally at home on the concert stage, her orchestral and recital performances have included Canteloube’s Chants D’Auvergne, Phedon in Satie’s Socrate, Mahler’s Second Symphony, Barber’s Knoxville, Summer of 1915 and Prayers of Kierkegaard. She has performed rare works by Maurice Delage, Purcell, and Nin-Culmell in New York. She opened the Rising Stars Concert Series at Santa Barbara’s historic Granada Theatre in recital with Warren Jones, and was unreservedly lauded for her work as soloist in Richard Strauss’ Vier letzte Lieder, and in her début with the Dallas Symphony in Carmina Burana. Ms. Trevigne appeared as vocal soloist in the world premiere of Dance Theater of Harlem’s St. Louis Woman - A Blues Ballet at the Lincoln Center Festival, LA’s Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, and The Kennedy Center. She has also performed as special guest soloist in New York’s critically acclaimed Schumann Festival. A champion of new music, she created the role of Pip in the world premiere of Jake Heggie’s MobyDick in her company début with Dallas Opera. She reprises this role with San Diego Opera, San Francisco Opera, and Washington National Opera. Recent premieres include Mr. Heggie’s Pieces of 9/11 – Memories from Houston for Houston Grand Opera, “The Beloved” in Liza Lim’s The Navigator in Australia, at Moscow’s Chekhov International Arts Festival, and the Bastille in Paris, the title character in Judith Weir’s Armida, and starring in Errollyn Wallen’s The Silent Twins with London’s Almeida Opera. Jake Heggie is the American composer of the operas Moby-Dick, Dead Man Walking, Three Decembers, The End of the Affair and To Hell and Back, as well as the stage works For a Look or a Touch and At the Statue of Venus. He has also composed more than 200 songs, as well as concerti, chamber music, choral and orchestral works; his songs, song cycles and operas are championed internationally by many of the most celebrated singers of our time. His recent recording of songs and duets, PASSING BY: Songs by Jake Heggie, (AVIE), features performances by Isabel Bayrakdarian, Zheng Cao, Joyce DiDonato, Susan Graham, Paul Groves, Keith Phares, and Frederica von Stade. The operas – most of them created with the distinguished writers Terrence McNally and Gene Scheer – have been produced at major opera houses on five continents. Upcoming projects include works commissioned by The Dallas Opera, Houston Grand Opera, San Francisco Performances, Music of Remembrance, as well as “Ahab” Symphony, commissioned by The University of North Texas at Denton, where Heggie was 2010/11 guest artist-in-residence. www.jakeheggie.com Glen Roven has won Four Emmy Awards. His Violin Concerto based on The Runaway Bunny and Goodnight Moon, a lullaby for Soprano and Orchestra, are two of the most programmed pieces of concert music in the US. Roven conducted them both at Carnegie Hall where Glenn Close narrated Bunny. His ten song cycles are regularly performed by singers all over the world. He has conducted the National Symphony, the Seattle Symphony, the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, The Munich Philharmonic, The Radio Luxembourg Orchestra, as well as many others, and made his Israeli conducting debut in 2001 conducting the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra in two sold-out concerts honoring Leonard Bernstein. He has conducted for Renee Fleming, Placido Domingo, Jessye Norman and Kathleen Battle and was chosen to conduct four Presidential Inaugural Concerts. In addition to appearing hundreds of times on television, he has written songs for, conducted and produced popular artists Julie Andrews, Aretha Franklin, Whitney Houston, Michael Jackson, Quincy Jones, Kermit the Frog, Patti LaBelle, Liza Minnelli, Diana Ross, and many others. He conducted Frank Sinatra’s last concert on television and Sammy Davis’s final television appearance. Next season sees the opening of his Broadway Musicals, Dr. Seuss’ The 5000 Fingers of Doctor T and Pandora’s Box, with Maria S. Schlatter. It was during an extensive search to cast the demanding role of Pip in Moby-Dick that I first heard of Talise Trevigne. It was a very particular type of soprano I wanted for this crucial role, and she had proved to be very hard to find. Several long months went by before I got the call: “We found her!” And boy, did we. Talise proved to be a dream on every level. First, there’s the voice: a silvery, glamorous, shimmering soprano with extraordinary range and color, great agility, and fantastic diction. The actress: committed, fearless, natural, radiant onstage, deeply connected, entirely committed to the character and drama. And the person: generous, giving, delightful, funny, human, real, genuine – and a killer baker. None of us in the original production of Moby-Dick will forget the rehearsal when Talise brought in some homemade goodies and put us all into a food coma. She is an artist and friend I will turn to again and again in the years to come, and it is a great thrill and honor to be part of her first solo CD. Jake Heggie Natural Selection is a cycle of five songs composed for soprano Nicolle Foland in 1997 with original poetry by Gini Savage. It traces a young woman’s search for her own identity: breaking away from her parents; opening herself to reckless passion; falling for the wrong guy; marrying the wrong guy; then finding her true, joyful self – quiet, alone and one with nature. JH The Santa Fe Songs I gave a recital concert in Santa Fe the summer of 2011, a few weeks after I had suffered a monumental personal tragedy. I vaguely remember wandering around the old town in a zombie-like stupor, the only reason I didn’t get hit by a car was because Ricky Ian Gordon was there helping me. Not surprisingly the town’s mystical magic crept into my very marrow although I didn’t know it at the time. I haunted the various galleries and stores, not looking for inspiration, just trying to make some sense of my loss, when I came across a book of Santa Fe poems. When I arrived back home, a few days (weeks?) later, I realized I would set some poems. In hindsight, it’s not hard to figure out why certain poems spoke to me. GR At the Statue of Venus, a scene for soprano and piano, was composed in 2005 for the grand opening of the Ellie Caulkins Opera House in Denver. The original libretto by Terrence McNally depicts a woman at a museum, waiting nervously for a blind date by the statue of Venus. To be willing to be judged by another person – does anything make us more vulnerable but human, too? JH How will he know me? That’s easy. He will listen for my laughter and be happy to know he’s the reason I laugh. He will know the vastness and fullness of my heart. Together we’ll know beauty and drink of it deeply, over and over. We will keep each other hopeful and brave. Together. We will brave this world together, the rest of our days. by Terrance McNally from At the Statue of Venus. Talise Trevigne At the Statue of Venus Produced by Glen Roven, Peter Fitzgerald, Richard Cohen, Megan Henninger Recorded, mixed and mastered by Megan Henniger and Peter Fitzgerald Art Direction by Lisa Cuscuna Recorded at Sound Associates, January 10th-16th, 2011 The complete Texts and Libretto appear on GPRrecords.com Music for At the Statue of Venus and The Santa Fe Songs is available for purchase at BillHolabMusic.com Music for Natural Selection is available at G. Schirmer All the copyright information of the various texts appears on GPRrecords.com Photo Credits: Ms. Trevigne: Kingmond Young, Mr. Roven: Ellen Appel, and Mr. Heggie: Ahron Foster Back Cover Photo: Christian Jessen GPRrecords, owned by Glen Roven (A&R), Peter Fitzgerald (CEO) and Richard Cohen (CFO), has in just two years become one of the most sought after and prestigious Independent Label in the United States. 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