Lyric mezzo-soprano Linda Barcan trained in theatre and singing voice at the University of Newcastle, the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA), the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music. She has performed in opera, oratorio, chamber music and art song in Australia, Europe and the USA, with companies such as Opéra de Lyon, Sydney Chamber Opera, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and Opera Australia. With pianist Coady Green, Linda will perform Mahler’s song cycle with themes of mortality and the persistence of nature, as well as works by Schumann, Rosenthal and Fiddes.
Performing Artists
Linda Barcan | Coady Green
Program
Ross FIDDES (b. 1944)
Thyrie’s Lullaby: Under Southern Skies
As Children Play
Robert SCHUMANN (1810 – 1856)
Kinderszenen (Solo Piano)
Gustav MAHLER (1860 – 1911)
Kindertotenlieder
Ross EDWARDS. (b. 1943)
“Christina’s Lullaby”, Christina’s World
Stephen LALOR. (b. 1960)
“Behind Hydrangea”, from Maroubra Song Cycle (1990)
Manuel ROSENTHAL (1904 – 2003)
Chansons du Monsieur Bleu
