Singer returns to Moorhead stage after years in Europe
Mezzo-soprano Barbara Schramm presents a faculty recital featuring a diverse selection of her favorite songs, from Strauss to stage music of the 1920s and 30s. The performance is Saturday, Sept. 18, at 7:30 p.m. on the Gaede Stage in the Roland Dille Center for the Arts on the MSUM campus. The recital will feature English translations and photos projected above the stage.
Schramm, a Moorhead native, spent more than 20 years in Germany as an opera singer and recitalist. She returned to Moorhead in 2007 and currently teaches voice at Concordia College and MSUM. This is her first recital at MSUM since her return.
Schramm’s professional career started in New York, where she performed as a soloist at Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, St. Patrick’s Cathedral, and Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church. Her early operatic career included roles with the Opera Orchestra of New York, the Kansas City Lyric Opera, and Glimmerglass Opera. In 1987, Schramm received a full scholarship to attend the American Institute of Musical Studies in Graz, Austria. Following a three-year engagement with the opera in Hof, Germany (one of her main roles was that of Erda in Wagner’s Das Rheingold), she became a free-lance artist, singing in opera houses and concert halls throughout the German speaking countries, including engagements in Bayreuth, Salzburg, Leipzig, Halle, Kassel and Berlin.
Schramm will be accompanied by pianist Susan Nagel, also a faculty member at MSUM and Concordia. Two other Concordia faculty members, Karen Wakefield, French horn, and Jane Linde Capistran, violin, will join Schramm for part of the program.
The performance is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Barbara Schramm at (218) 477-4602 or schramm@cord.edu.