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Beverly Wolff

Beverly Wolff was an American mezzo-soprano who had an active career in concerts and operas from the early 1950s to the early 1980s. She performed a broad repertoire which encompassed operatic and concert works in many languages and from a variety of musical periods. She was a champion of new works, notably premiering compositions by Leonard Bernstein, Gian Carlo Menotti, Douglas Moore, and Ned Rorem among other American composers. She also performed in a number of rarely heard baroque operas by George Frideric Handel with the New York City Opera, the Handel Society of New York, and at the Kennedy Center Handel Festivals. Wolff made only a few appearances on the international stage during her career, choosing instead to work with important opera companies and orchestras in the United States. She was particularly active with the NYCO with whom she performed frequently from 1958 to 1971. Opera News stated, "Wolff was one of a golden generation of American singers who dominated the NYCO roster during the general directorship of Julius Rudel. From Wikipedia (

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Donizetti: Roberto Devereux - original version / Act 1: Nunzio son del Parlamento (Cecil, Sara, Elisabetta, Paggio, Raleigh, Coro)

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Giulio Cesare in Egitto, HWV 17: Act I, Vani sono i lamenti

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Roberto Devereux: "L'amor suo mi fe beata"

Gaetano Donizetti

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Donizetti: Roberto Devereux - original version / Act 3: Che m'apporti? (Elisabetta, Cecil, Sara, Nottingham, Coro)

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Giulio Cesare in Egitto, HWV 17: Act I, Cara speme

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Händel: Julius Caesar, HWV 17

1989

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Rorem: Poems of Love and the Rain, 4 Madrigals & From an Unknown Past

1997