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Tickets in advance: $25

Tickets at the door: $30

Hunter Hall presents the renowned international mezzo-soprano Christina Lamberti and pianist Margrit Zimmermann in our intimate concert setting.

Program:

• R. Wagner - Wesendonck lieder
• Manuel De Falla - Siete canciones populares espanolas (Seven Spanish Popular Songs)
• G. Verdi - Selected Songs

Mingle at our relaxed reception afterwards.

CHRISTINA LAMBERTI

Mezzo Soprano Christina Lamberti has garnered critical acclaim throughout her successful career as a performer, but was looking for the exact fach for her unique sound. Now fully realized as a dramatic mezzo-soprano, Christina is primed for roles such as Eboli (DON CARLO), Santuzza (CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA), Amneris (AIDA), and the title role in CARMEN. Recognized internationally, Christina has been hailed for a sound that ranges from "a full- throated performance, riveting in sound and fury" to "such delicate nuances that only the greatest masters can portray." She has performed for some of the world’s leading organizations, including San Francisco Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Opera Company of Philadelphia, Pittsburgh Opera, Opera Delaware, Buffalo Symphony, Pacific Symphony, Estonian National Opera, Slovenian National Theatre, Singapore Lyric Opera, Singapore Symphony, Teatro Comunale di Atri, and Stattheater Regensburg, where she enjoyed three seasons as the resident leading soprano. 

In her former repertoire as a soprano, Ms. Lamberti excelled as the title roles of MANON LESCAUT and NORMA, Leonore (IL TROVATORE), Desdemona (OTELLO), Amelia (UN BALLO IN MASCHERA), Donna Elvira (DON GIOVANNI), and Vitellia (LA CLEMENZA DI TITO). Her initial operatic experience began as an undergraduate chorister at Westminster Choir College participating in the Philadelphia Orchestra's concert productions of NABUCCO and TOSCA, conducted by Maestro Riccardo Muti. She continued her studies at Duquesne University and participated in the EPCASO program in Italy, studying the Bellini and Donizetti repertoire under the rigorous tutelage of Enza Ferrari and Claudia Pinza (daughter of famed basso Ezio Pinza). Christina participated in San Francisco Opera as a young artist in the Merola Opera Program. Other Young Artist Programs include Opera Theatre of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Opera, and The Academy of Vocal Arts, Philadelphia.  Christina began a long-standing relationship with San Francisco Opera as a young artist in the Merola Opera Program. She studied early Romantic bel canto repertoire with the late Dame Joan Sutherland. Most recently she has been touring Denmark with her husband, classical guitarist Lars Frandsen. Recent engagements include the rôle of Maddalena in multiple performances of  Verdi’s RIGOLETTO at major USA venues  with Teatro Lirico, D’Europa and Berta in performances of Rossini’s IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA with Nickel City Opera, Buffalo. Winter 2024 will find Christina on tour with Teatro Lirico again as Berta in IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA.

MARGRIT ZIMMERMANN

Margrit Julia Zimmermann, pianist, is an artist with uncommon poetic talent. Her special contact with the piano—her fine, gentle touch represents the best tradition of European and Russian piano schools. She possesses an unusual musical creative ability and virtuosity that flourishes in her interpretations of Schubert, Schumann, Brahms and Rachmaninov, described by one reviewer as having " fascinating intensity and highly poetic play." 

Ms. Zimmermann is a prizewinner of International Johannes Brahms Piano Competition in Austria and the Roma International Piano Competition in Italy. Her recordings on major labels such as ASV and BIS in England and Sweden were highly praised in Gramophone magazine (England): ‘’It’s finely chiseled offering that suggests light on glistening crystals, the sort of piece Manfred Eicher might cull for his ECM label-although I doubt that even he could commission a better performance that one recorded here’’. 

Das Orchester (Germany) and Penn Sounds (USA) for revealing a “deep musical sense and technical perfection.” 

Margrit Julia is maintaining two homes: in New York (USA) and in Hamburg (Germany), where she received the Art Prize of the Wolfgang-Zippel Foundation. Ms. Zimmermann was a founder and for many years Artistic Director of the International Music Festival "Cascades" in Germany. She has performed in major music centers worldwide such a Carnegie Hall, Weill Recital Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, Moscow Conservatoire Hall, Hall of Vilnius Philharmonie, Philharmonie Hall in Kaunus, Organ Hall in Kishinev, Vienna Hall of the MusicTheater Society, Graz Music Hall, Kaliningrad Philharmonic Hall, Sala Beethoven, and Teatro Isauro Martinez among others. 

Her concerts have frequently been televised throughout Russia, Lithuania and Germany, where she continues to perform as a soloist with recitals and orchestra, as well as in England, Austria, Holland, the United States, Switzerland, Baltic Republics, Peru, the Caribbean Islands, and Mexico. 

Margrit Julia Zimmermann completed her studies at the world-renowned Tchaikovsky Conservatoire in Moscow with Dmitri Bashkirov, where she studied with Lev Naumov, Vera Gornostaeva, and Vadim Sukhanov. Since 2010 Margrit Julia Zimmermann was an Artist-in-Residence at the Alliance University in NYC.