GEORGINE RESICK
Professor of Music
Voice/Soprano
Artist's Diploma, Peabody Conservatory, 1975
B.Mus, American University
Office: 212 Crowley Hall
Telephone: (574) 631-6512
E-mail: Georgine.Resick.1@nd.edu
Ms. Resick's appearances on international stages have been met with public and critical acclaim and have won her the respect of her colleagues, who have re-engaged her season after season at the world's most important opera houses and prestigious festivals, and for performances with the most established orchestras. Particularly renowned for her Mozart and Strauss interpretations, her wide ranging repertoire has been heard at the world's great theaters, among them the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Houston Grand Opera, Cologne Opera, Paris Opera, Vienna State Opera, Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels, Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf, the Washington Opera and Hamburg State Theater, as well as at the Salzburg, Edinburgh, Drottningholm and Lucerne Strings in the Mountains Festivals. A concert artist in great demand, she has performed with the London Symphony Orchestra, Rome's Accademia di Santa Cecilia Orchestra, the Israel Philharmonic, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, the National Symphony in Washington D.C., the symphony orchestras of San Diego, Baltimore, and Düsseldorf and the Gulbenkian Foundation. Two new song recital recordings are being released on the d'Note label. She has been on the faculty of the University of Notre Dame since 1990.
RECENT APPEARANCES
• World Premiere of Tzví Avni's Four Songs for Soprano and Orchestra, Colorado Springs• Hilda Mack in Hans Werner Henze's Elegy for Young Lovers in Long Beach, California, Spring 1996
• John Dexter's production of The Abduction from the Seraglio for the Lyric Opera of Chicago
• Marzelline in Fidelio at the Houston Grand Opera, opposite Hildegard Behrens, conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas
• Carolina in the Cologne Opera's Washington D.C. performance of Il Matrimonio Segreto
• Zerlina in a concert version of Don Giovanni with the Israel Philharmonic, conducted by Daniel Barenboim
• Strauss' Four Last Songs and Mahler's Symphony No. 4 with the San Diego Symphony.
OTHER NOTABLE APPEARANCES:
• Fiordiligi in Mozart's Così fan Tutte, 1999• Sophie in Der Rosenkavalier opposite Frederica von Stade, Kiri Te Kanawa and Kurt Moll, conducted by Andrew Davis and Zdenka in Arabella, with Ms. Te Kanawa, conducted by Silvio Varviso, both at the Paris Opera
• Adele in Die Fledermaus at the Vienna State Opera, with Christa Ludwig
• Despina in Jean-Luc Bondy's production of Così fan tutte at Théâtre de la Monnaie, Brussels, conducted by John Pritchard, a role she repeated to great acclaim at the Drottningholm Festival under Arnold Östman; the L'Oiseau Lyre recording of this production was awarded the Grand Prix du Disque
• Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro at Drottningholm, released on Polygram Video
• Constanze in Die Entführung aus dem Serail, at Drottningholm
• Cologne Opera's Mozart Festival, where she appeared in Jean-Pierre Ponnelle's productions of Die Zauberflöte as Pamina, Don Giovanni as Zerlina, La Clemenza di Tito as Servilia, Die Entführung aus dem Serail as Blonde, and Così fan Tutte as Despina, all led by John Pritchard
• Adina in L'Elisir d'Amore, Anne Truelove in The Rake's Progress, Euridice in Orfeo ed Euridice, Gilda in Rigoletto, the title role in Martha, and Philippe in Penderecki's The Devils of Loudon in companies at Cologne Opera and Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf
• Sophie in Werther opposite Nicolai Gedda at the Washington Opera, her operatic debut
• Carolina in Cimarosa's Il Matrimonio Segreto on Home Video
NOTABLE STAGE DIRECTORS WITH WHOM PROF. RESICK HAS WORKED:
• Otto Schenk
• Jean-Pierre Ponnelle
• Michael Hampe
• Francesca Zambello
• August Everding
• Nick Muni
CONDUCTORS ALSO INCLUDE:
• Lorin Maazel
• Marek Janowski
• Leopold Hager
• Nello Santi
• Alberto Erede
• Ferdinand Leitner
• Hiroshi Wakasugi
• Jesus Lopez-Cobos
• Lukas Foss
RECORDINGS HAVE BEEN ISSUED BY:
• Decca
• Deutsche Grammophon
• Capriccio
• Wergo
• WDR, the vocal music of Anton Webern with the Linos Ensemble
VIDEOS HAVE BEEN ISSUED BY:
• Home Vision
• Polygram
