Visions and Ecstasies: Classical & Folk Songs of Ireland

Bruach na carraige báine (On the banks of the White Rock) - Traditional

My Grief on the Sea - Joan Trimble 1937

3 Pastoral Songs, Op. 22 - Roger Quilter 1920

I Will Go with My Father a-Ploughing

Cherry Valley

I Wish and I Wish

Sliabh Geal gCua na Féile (The Bright Mountain) - Traditional

Sunday - Andrew Synnott 2020

An Mhaighdean Mhara (The Mermaid) - Traditional

3 Songs - Rebecca Clarke

A Dream (1928)

The Seal Man (1921)

Down by the Salley Gardens (1924)

Reidh cnoc mná duibhe (The Dark Fairy Hill) - Traditional

Francesca Federico

Hailed as having a voice of “such strong presence and beauty of tone that she left one longing for more.” (Opera News)

Irish-American soprano Francesca Federico was born in Paris and is based in New York City. She is a Fulbright Scholar, and completed a performance residency in Ireland, focusing on the origins of Irish traditional music in classical art song by Irish composers and poets.

Projects this season include the release of Francesca’s debut album, Visions and Ecstasies: Classical & Folk Songs of Ireland on Odradek Records, and accompanying tours in the United States and Europe. She will be the Soprano Soloist in Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater with Garden State Opera, and in Mozart’s Requiem in D Minor with the Hudson Chorale.

Last season, Francesca debuted in the title role of Strauss’s Salome with Heartbeat Opera. She was soloist in Mahler’s Symphony No.4 with the New York Session Symphony, soloist in Beethoven’s Mass in C Major with the Greenwich Choral Society, soloist in Bach’s BWV 140 with the Westchester Choral Society, and Harlan in Chadwich Stokes’ rock opera 1972 at Joe’s Pub. Francesca was awarded a production grant from the Anna Sosenko Assist Trust to assist in the recording of her debut album.

Other recent projects include: Nannetta in Verdi’s Falstaff with Salt Marsh Opera; Anna di Resburgo (cover) in the modern premiere of Carolina Uccelli’s Anna di Resburgo with Teatro Nuovo at Lincoln Center; soloist in John Rutter’s Requiem with the New England Symphonic Ensemble, conducted by Maestro Rutter at Carnegie Hall; Eurydice in Offenbach’s Orpheus in the Underworld with Opera Ithaca and Raylynmor Opera, and soloist with the American Contemporary Music Ensemble at The Morgan Library, performing Ravel’s Chansons Madécasses and the premiere of Clarice Jensen’s Enheduanna.