Templesong

3 October 2012, 7.30pm
Middle Temple Hall, London

Danielle de Niese (soprano)
Julius Drake (piano)

Programme to include Bizet, Delibes, Grieg, Wolf, Gershwin, Porter.

At the age of eighteen, Danielle de Niese became the youngest singer ever to enter the Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program and a year later she made her Met debut as Barbarina in Le nozze di Figaro in Jonathan Miller’s acclaimed new production with James Levine.

De Niese has performed in productions for the Paris Opera, Zurich Opera, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Netherlands Opera, Teatro Real, San Francisco Opera and Lyric Opera of Chicago, among others. She has sung with conductors including Sir Charles Mackerras, Kurt Masur, Seiji Ozawa, Nicola Luisotti, Sir Andrew Davis, William Christie, Christophe Rousset, Marc Minkowski and Emmanuelle Haïm.

“Her singing is utterly delectable and completely assured…Sheer ‘joie de vivre’ and mastery come spilling across, to the eyes as well as the ears.” (The New York Times)