In addition to the many operatic roles Miss. Aylmer has performed, she is equally at home on the recital stage. She has sung songs in several languages: English, Italian, German, French, Latin, Spanish, Russian, Catalan, Basque, Portuguese, Czech, Danish, and even Korean.

Operatic Roles Performed

Role

Opera

Composer

Geraldine

A Hand of Bridge

Samuel Barber

Hero

Beatrice et Benedict (excerpts)

Hector Berlioz

Frasquita

Carmen

Georges Bizet

The Governess

Turn of the Screw

Benjamin Britten

Tytania

Midsummer Night’s Dream

Benjamin Britten

Elisetta

Il Matrimonio Segreto

Domenico Cimarosa

Norina

Don Pasquale

Gaetano Donizetti

Curley’s Wife

Of Mice and Men (cover)

Carlyle Floyd

Dalinda

Ariodante (cover)

G.F. Handel

Emilia

Flavio

G.F. Handel

Dorinda

Orlando

G.F. Handel

Hilda Mack

Elegy for Young Lovers

Hans Werner Henze

Gretel

Hansel and Gretel
(English and German)

Engelbert Humperdinck

Aminta

Il Re Pastore

W. A. Mozart

Despina

Cosí fan Tutte (excerpts)

W. A. Mozart

Madame Silberklang

Der Schauspieldirektor

W. A. Mozart

Susanna

Le nozze di Figaro

W. A. Mozart

Barbarina

Le nozze di Figaro

W. A. Mozart

Papagena

The Magic Flute

W. A. Mozart

Pamina

The Magic Flute

W. A. Mozart

Ernestine

Monsieur Choufleuri

Jacques Offenbach

Gabrielle

La Vie Parisienne

Jacques Offenbach

Stella

A Streetcar Named Desire

Andre Previn

Ninette

L’amour des Trois Oranges

Sergei Prokofiev

Cynthia Reid

Belladonna
(role written for Ms. Aylmer)

Bernard Rands

Sophie

Der Rosenkavalier

Richard Strauss

Zdenka

Arabella (cover)

Richard Strauss

Rowena

Ligeia
(North American Premiere)

Augusta Read Thomas

Gilda

Rigoletto

Giuseppe Verdi

Nannetta

Falstaff

Giuseppe Verdi

Alice Ford

Falstaff (cover)

Giuseppe Verdi

Roles in Preparation

Role

Opera

Composer

Adina

L’elisir d’amore

Gaetano Donizetti

Marie

La fille du Régiment

Gaetano Donizetti

Juliette

Roméo et Juliette

Charles Gounod

Cleopatra

Guilio Cesere

G. F. Handel

Poppea

L’incoronation de Poppea

Claudio Monteverdi

Ilia

Idomeneo

W. A. Mozart

Zerlina

Don Giovanni

W. A. Mozart

Antonia/Olympia

Les Contes d’Hoffman

Jacques Offenbach

Anne Trulove

The Rake’s Progress

Igor Stravinsky

Lauretta

Gianni Schicci

Giacomo Puccini

Musetta

La Boheme

Giacomo Puccini

Oratorio Repertoire/Solo Orchestral

Title

Composer

Jauchzet Gott, #51

J. S. Bach

Schweicht stille, plaudert nicht, #211

J. S. Bach

Weichet nur, betrübte Schatten, #202

J. S. Bach

Knoxville: Summer of 1915

Samuel Barber

Settings of Celan (selections)

Sir Harrison Birtwhistle

Ceremony of Carols

Benjamin Britten

Requiem

Gabriel Faure

La Bonne Chanson

Gabriel Faure

Time Cycle

Lukas Foss

Messiah

G. F. Handel

The Creation

F. J. Haydn

Elijah

Felix Mendelssohn

Exultate Jubliate

W. A. Mozart

Requiem

W. A. Mozart

Carmina Burana

Carl Orff

Floof

Esa-Pekka Salonen

 

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