Sandra Graham, mezzo-soprano

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Roles and Repertoire

Hansel und Gretel

Operatic Roles Performed (Professional Productions)

  • Applebaum: The Queen/ Mrs. Ydgrun (Erewhon) world premiere (Canada)
  • Bizet: Carmen/ Mercedes (Carmen)
  • Henze: Mezzo Lead (Der Junge Lord)
  • Humperdinck: Hansel/ Witch (Hansel und Gretel)
  • Mascagni: Santuzza (Cavalleria Rusticana)
  • Massenet: Charlotte (Werther)
  • Mozart: Cherubino (Le Nozze di Figaro),
    Dorabella (Cosi fan tutte),
    Idamante (Idomeneo)
  • Offenbach: Antonia (Tales of Hoffman),
    Metella (La Vie Parisienne)
  • Pesson: Diane (Pastorale) World premiere (Germany)
  • Poulenc: Mere Marie (Les Dialogues des Carmelites)
  • Prokofiev: Princess (The Love of Three Oranges)
  • Puccini: Suzuki (Madama Butterfly)
  • Purcell: Dido (Dido and Aeneas)
  • Reim: Sirenen (Das Schweigen der Sirenen) World premiere (Germany)
  • Rossini: Cenerentola (La Cenerentola)
  • Saint Saens: Dalila (Samson et Dalila),
    Ann Boleyn (Henry VIII)
  • Johann Strauss: Prince Orlofsky (Die Fledermaus)
  • Richard Strauss: Der Komponist (Ariadne auf Naxos),
    Oktavian (Der Rosenkavalier)
  • Stravinsky: Baba the Turk (The Rake's Progress)
  • Tchaikovsky: Olga (Eugene Onegin)
  • Verdi: Amneris (Aida),
    Eboli (Don Carlo),
    Magdalena (Rigoletto)
  • Wagner: Brangaene (Tristan und Isolde)

Orchestral Music, Oratorio, Song Cycles, Art Song (repertoire performed)

  • Bach: St. John Passion,
    Christmas Oratorio,
    St. Matthew Passion,
    Magnificat,
    Mass in B Minor
  • Beethoven: Symphony No. 9,
    Mass in C,
    Missa Solemnis
  • Britten: Spring Symphony
  • Brahms: Alto Rhapsody,
    Liebeslieder Waltzes
  • Bruckner: Mass in F Minor,
    Te Deum
  • Durufle: Requiem
  • Elgar: Dream of Gerontius,
    Sea Pictures
  • de Falla: El Amor Brujo
  • Handel: The Messiah,
    Israel in Egypt,
    Samson,
    Solomon,
    Judas Maccabaeus
  • Haydn: Lord Nelson Mass
  • Mahler: Lieder eines Fahrenden Gesellen,
    Kindertotenlieder,
    Symphonies No. 2, No. 3, No. 8
  • Mendelssohn: Elijah
  • Morawetz: Diary of Anne Frank
  • Mozart: Requiem,
    Mass in C,
    Mass in C Minor
  • Penderecki: Requiem
  • Pergolesi: Stabat Mater
  • Prevost: Ahimsa
  • Prokofiev: Alexander Nevsky
  • Raminsh: Songs of Lights
  • Respighi: Il Tramonto
  • Ridout : Mass
  • Schaefer: Beauty and the Beast
  • Schoenberg: Pierrot Lunaire
  • Vaughan Williams: Serenade to Music
  • Verdi: Requiem Mass
  • Vivaldi: Nissi Dominus,
    Gloria,
    Magnificat
  • Willan: Requiem

Cantatas, Art Songs, Song Cycles (repertoire performed)

  • Barber: Dover Beach (with string quartet)
  • Brahms: Zigeuner Lieder (with piano)
  • Britten: A Charm of Lullabies (with piano)
  • de Falla: Siete Canziones Espagnoles (with piano and guitar)
  • Forsythe: Sun Songs (with orchestra)
  • Glick: I Never Saw Another Butterfly (with orchestra and piano)
  • Mahler: Lieder Eines Fahrenden Gesellen (orchestra),
    Kindertotenlieder (orchestra)
  • Respighi: Il Tramonto (with orchestra and with string quartet)
  • Schumann: Frauenliebe und Leben
  • Shostakovich: Cycle of five songs for high voice, piano, and strings
  • Spohr: Cycle of six songs for voice, clarinet, and piano

Recordings:

  • Ahimsa (Andre Prevost)
    Orford String Quartet – Centre Discs

  • Sound of Music
    Cincinnati Pops (Eric Kunzel) Decca

  • Haydn: Lord Nelson mass
    Bratislava Symphony Orchestra – Naxos

  • Mozart Requiem:
    Bratislava Symphony Orchestra – Naxos

  • Songs of Lights (Imant Raminsh)
    CBC Vancouver Orchestra – CBC

  • Jon Vickers DVD Special
    National Arts Centre: Othello (Amelia)

  • Harry Sommers: The Fool (the Queen)
    Canadian Music Centre