Making her debut, this celebrated British soprano has a busy international career and appeared in the title role of Porgy and Bess at the Metropolitan Opera last fall. She offers a program celebrating a turn-of-the-20th-century British-Black composer and his influences.

The World of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

Coleridge-Taylor:
An African love song from African Romances, Op. 17
How shall I woo thee? from African Romances, Op. 17
You lay so still in the sunshine from Songs of Sun and Shade
Thou art risen, my beloved from Songs of Sun and Shade
Villiers Stanford:
The bold, unbiddable child from A Sheaf of Songs from Leinster, Op. 140
A soft day from A Sheaf of Songs from Leinster, Op. 140
Elgar:
Like to the damask rose
O’er-arched by leaves from Caractacus, Op. 35
Vaughan Williams: Silent Noon from The House of Life
Coleridge-Taylor:
Minguillo from Southern Love Songs, Op. 12
Life and Death
Six Sorrow Songs, Op. 57
Mahler: Rückert-Lieder