Lisa Delan
Soprano
American soprano Lisa Delan has won acclaim as an outstanding interpreter of a vast repertoire. She is recognized for her versatility and breadth of accomplishment in opera, song and recording.
Ms. Delan's interpretive and technical skill in art song brought her to the finals of the 1999 Naumberg International Vocal Competition. Other recognition came from singing the title role in the world premiere of Gordon Getty’s Joan and the Bells in 1998, a role she has since reprised in France, Germany, the US and Russia, and in the 2002 recording for PentaTone Classics. Critics have praised her depiction of Joan of Arc as "beautifully sung" (International Record Review), "refreshingly unpretentious" (Gramophone Magazine), and "a role she has made her own, with the kind of pure tone one expects of a saint-to-be and the passion one expects from a 19-year-old girl going to her death. Miss Delan is exceptional" (Nevada Events).
Lisa Delan has performed on some of the world's leading concert stages including Lincoln Center, the Auditiorio Nacional in Madrid, the Moscow Conservatory, and in special appearance at Windsor Castle. Her festival appearances include the Bad Kissingen Festival in Germany, the Colmar Festival in France and the Rachmaninoff Festival in Novgorod, Russia, the Festival del Sole in Napa Valley, California and at the Tuscan Sun Festival in Cortona, Italy in 2007.
As a recital artist, her repertoire encompasses from the Baroque to the contemporary and she is privileged to collaborate with composers whose musical lives are still works in progress: Ms. Delan has performed and recorded the music of William Bolcom, John Corigliano, David Garner, Gordon Getty, Jake Heggie, Andrew Imbrie, and Luna Pearl Woolf, among others. Her debut solo recording with pianist Kristin Pankonin and guest artists Matt Haimovitz and Susanne Mentzer, And If the Song Be Worth a Smile, was released by PentaTone Classics in March 2009, followed by her new recording of Gordon Getty’s The White Election, released in April 2009.
Lisa Delan and Flutist Maxim Rubstov at Festival del Sole 2012.
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Performances with the RNO
September 2016
23 Fri
Tchaikovsky Concert Hall
Moscow
Russia
Program
Classical Music in 3D
- Getty
- Young America
- Claude Debussy
- La Mer ("The Sea")
- Getty
- Mephistofeles to Faust
- Gretchen to Faust
- Holst
- The Planets
Conductor:
Guest Artists:
Pyotr Migunov, Bass
Lisa Delan, Soprano
February 2016
21 Sun
Davies Symphony Hall
San Francisco
CA
Program
- Shostakovich
- Festive Overture
- Tchaikovsky
- Piano Concerto no.2
- Getty
- Gretchen to Faust (dedicated to the memory of Andrew Getty)
- Stravinsky
- The Firebird (1945)
Conductor:
Guest Artists:
Yuja Wang, Piano
Lisa Delan, Soprano
April 2015
12 Sun
Auditorium de Lyon
Lyon
Program
- Getty
- Joan and the Bells
- Rachmaninov
- Piano Concerto No. 1, in F-sharp minor
- Tchaikovsky
- Sleeping Beauty, arr. by Mikhail Pletnev
Conductor:
Guest Artists:
Lise de la Salle, Piano
Lisa Delan, Soprano
Lester Lynch, Baritone
Lyon Choir of Bernard Tétu, Choir
September 2012
16 Sun
Tchaikovsky Concert Hall
Moscow
Russia
Program
- Franz Joseph Haydn
- Piano Concerto in D major
- Gordon Getty
- Joan and the Bells, cantata for soprano, baritone, choir and orchestra, for the 600th anniversary of the birth of Joan of Arc
- Pyotr Tchaikovsky
- Symphony No. 4
Conductor:
Guest Artists:
Kanon Matsuda, Piano
Lisa Delan, Soprano
Konstantin Shushakov, Baritone
February 2010
23 Tue
First Congregational Church
Berkeley
CA
Program
- Gordon Getty
- The White Election
- Funded by the Koret Foundation, this performance is part of Cal Performances' 2009-10 Koret Recital Series. Lisa Delan teams up with Mikhail Pletnev for this performance of Getty's song cycle based on 32 poems by Emily Dickinson. Meant to tell her remarkable story in her own words, The White Election traces the arc of Dickinson's life in mid-19th century America.
Guest Artists:
Lisa Delan, Soprano
19 Fri
Zellerbach Auditorium
Berkeley
CA
Program
- Pletnev
- Yeats Song Cycle, based on three poems by William Butler Yeats
- Tchaikovsky
- Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 35
- Shostakovich
- Symphony No. 9 in E-flat major, Op. 70
Conductor:
Guest Artists:
Stefan Jackiw, Violin
Lisa Delan, Soprano
Volti, Chorus
October 2005
16 Sun
Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory
Moscow
Russia
Program
- Franck
- Pastorale and Chorale
- Strauss, R.
- Four Last Songs
- Getty
- Ancestor Suite
This concert is sponsored by KPMG
Conductor:
Guest Artist:
Lisa Delan, Soprano
July 2004
25 Sun
Zellerbach Hall
Berkeley
CA
Program
- John Adams
- The Chairman Dances
- Gordon Getty
- Joan and the Bells
- Tchaikovsky
- Symphony No. 6
Conductor:
Guest Artists:
Lisa Delan, Soprano
Vladimir Chernov, Baritone
March 2004
27 Sat
St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle
Windsor
Program
- Sir Paul Getty Memorial Concert
- Jean Sibelius
- Prelude to The Tempest
- Suite No. 1 from The Tempest
- Gordon Getty
- Joan and the Bells -- Cantata for soprano, baritone, chorus and orchestra (UK premiere)
- Mikhail Pletnev
- Setting of a poem by William Butler Yeats for soprano, chorus and orchestra (world premiere)
- Tickets by invitation only. Please for more information.
Conductor:
Guest Artists:
Lisa Delan, Soprano
Vladimir Chernov, Baritone
July 2003
19 Sat
Regentenbau Grosser Saal
Bad Kissingen
Program
- Tchaikovsky
- Violin Concerto
- Prokofiev
- Romeo and Juliet (selections)
- Gordon Getty
- Joan and the Bells
Conductor:
Guest Artists:
Liza Rybentseva, Violin
Akiko Suwanai, Violin
Lisa Delan, Soprano
Vladimir Chernov, Baritone
13 Sun
St. Matthew's Church
Colmar
Program
- Penderecki
- Stabat Mater
- Gordon Getty
- Joan and the Bells
- Prokofiev
- Romeo and Juliet, Suite No. 2
Conductor:
Guest Artists:
Lisa Delan, Soprano
Akiko Suwanai, Violin
Vladimir Chernov, Baritone
November 2002
08 Fri
Concert Hall, Maison de la Culture de Bourges
Bourges
Program
- Prokofiev
- Classical Symphony
- Gordon Getty
- Joan and the Bells
- Rachmaninov
- Piano concerto #2
Conductor:
Guest Artists:
Lisa Delan, Soprano
Vladimir Chernov, Baritone
Mikhail Rudy, Piano