Lucy Fitz Gibbon, Soprano
Noted for her “clear voice” (Central Bavarian News) and “endearing stage presence” (New York Times), soprano Lucy Fitz Gibbon is a dynamic and versatile performer whose repertoire spans the baroque to the present. After a recent performance of Britten’s The Turn of the Screw with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Twin Cities Daily Planet wrote that “soprano Lucy Fitz Gibbon upstaged the rest of the cast with a musically stunning and dramatically chilling portrayal of the precocious and disturbing youth Miles.”
Recent concert performances include Unsuk Chin’s Acrostic Wordplay, Handel’s Silete Venti, and the premiere of Mark Kuss’s Slave Songs and Spirituals. She has given recitals with her collaborative partner, pianist Ryan MacEvoy McCullough, in venues from coast to coast—most recently in Toronto’s Koerner Hall and Art Gallery of Ontario, as well as Cornell University’s Barnes Hall. Stage work includes Cavalli’s La Calisto (Calisto); Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel (Gretel); and Britten’s The Turn of the Screw (Miles). 2014–2015 performances include Hasse’s cantata L’Armonica with Ars Lyrica Houston and C. P. E. Bach’s incomparably beautiful Morgengesang am Schöpfungsfeste with Chris Younghoon Kim, as well as premieres of works by Dante de Silva and Christopher Stark. This summer she will be a fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center.
Fitz Gibbon is most inspired by creating new works and recreating those lost in centuries past. She particularly enjoyed resurrecting the title role of Francesco Sacrati’s La Finta Pazza, originally written for the first opera diva, Anna Renzi. Though the work was one of the most popular operas of the seventeenth century, and perhaps the first ever performed in France, it was subsequently lost and only recently rediscovered on an island in Italy. Although Lucy has premiered works by numerous composers in both America and Canada, she has worked particularly closely with Anna Lindemann. Lindemann’s works frequently integrate electronics, hard science, and digital animation. Theory of Flight (2011) is no exception: the staged work, which explores the nature of desire and human bias within the confines of the scientific world, is scored for actor, singer, electronics, and video. Their next collaboration, to be premiered in 2015, will use animation and puppetry to illustrate two large-scale art songs by Schubert and Prokofiev, as well as one new composition by Lindemann herself.
A graduate of Yale College, Fitz Gibbon is the recipient of numerous awards for her musical and academic achievements. As a soloist with early music ensemble Ex Umbris, Lucy performed at the Florida Baroque (Miami) and Regensburg Tage Alte Musik (Regensburg, Germany) festivals. She is featured on Etherea Vocal Ensemble’s debut album, “Ceremony of Carols” (2011). Praised for its “elegant nuance” (Opera News), Etherea is an eight-member vocal ensemble based in Connecticut. Fitz Gibbon’s singing has also been featured on the NPR program Science Friday in a segment about absolute pitch, and a recording of her can be heard in an exhibition of Pre-Raphaelite paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, on view through August. Lucy recently finished her artist diploma at The Glenn Gould School of the Royal Conservatory, where she was one of a select number of students chosen to attend on a full scholarship. She is now pursuing her master’s degree at Bard College Conservatory in the Graduate Vocal Arts Program.
For more information, visit lucyfitzgibbon.com.
Ms. Fitz Gibbon will perform Claude Vivier’s Lonely Child on Friday, March 6.
Recent concert performances include Unsuk Chin’s Acrostic Wordplay, Handel’s Silete Venti, and the premiere of Mark Kuss’s Slave Songs and Spirituals. She has given recitals with her collaborative partner, pianist Ryan MacEvoy McCullough, in venues from coast to coast—most recently in Toronto’s Koerner Hall and Art Gallery of Ontario, as well as Cornell University’s Barnes Hall. Stage work includes Cavalli’s La Calisto (Calisto); Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel (Gretel); and Britten’s The Turn of the Screw (Miles). 2014–2015 performances include Hasse’s cantata L’Armonica with Ars Lyrica Houston and C. P. E. Bach’s incomparably beautiful Morgengesang am Schöpfungsfeste with Chris Younghoon Kim, as well as premieres of works by Dante de Silva and Christopher Stark. This summer she will be a fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center.
Fitz Gibbon is most inspired by creating new works and recreating those lost in centuries past. She particularly enjoyed resurrecting the title role of Francesco Sacrati’s La Finta Pazza, originally written for the first opera diva, Anna Renzi. Though the work was one of the most popular operas of the seventeenth century, and perhaps the first ever performed in France, it was subsequently lost and only recently rediscovered on an island in Italy. Although Lucy has premiered works by numerous composers in both America and Canada, she has worked particularly closely with Anna Lindemann. Lindemann’s works frequently integrate electronics, hard science, and digital animation. Theory of Flight (2011) is no exception: the staged work, which explores the nature of desire and human bias within the confines of the scientific world, is scored for actor, singer, electronics, and video. Their next collaboration, to be premiered in 2015, will use animation and puppetry to illustrate two large-scale art songs by Schubert and Prokofiev, as well as one new composition by Lindemann herself.
A graduate of Yale College, Fitz Gibbon is the recipient of numerous awards for her musical and academic achievements. As a soloist with early music ensemble Ex Umbris, Lucy performed at the Florida Baroque (Miami) and Regensburg Tage Alte Musik (Regensburg, Germany) festivals. She is featured on Etherea Vocal Ensemble’s debut album, “Ceremony of Carols” (2011). Praised for its “elegant nuance” (Opera News), Etherea is an eight-member vocal ensemble based in Connecticut. Fitz Gibbon’s singing has also been featured on the NPR program Science Friday in a segment about absolute pitch, and a recording of her can be heard in an exhibition of Pre-Raphaelite paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, on view through August. Lucy recently finished her artist diploma at The Glenn Gould School of the Royal Conservatory, where she was one of a select number of students chosen to attend on a full scholarship. She is now pursuing her master’s degree at Bard College Conservatory in the Graduate Vocal Arts Program.
For more information, visit lucyfitzgibbon.com.
Ms. Fitz Gibbon will perform Claude Vivier’s Lonely Child on Friday, March 6.
