George London Foundation Presents Marcello Giordani and Meagan Miller, 3/4

2008 George London Award-winning soprano Meagan Miller joins star tenor Marcello Giordani to make the latest pair of singers presented by the George London Foundation Recital Series, which often features a recent winner of the foundation's competition and an established opera star.

On Sunday, March 4, 2012, at 5:00 PM, with Howard Watkins at the piano, Mr. Giordani performs Puccini's "Ch'ella mi creda libero" from La Fanciulla del West and "Donna non vidi mai" from Manon Lescaut as well as Neapolitan songs by Tosti; and Ms. Miller sings songs by Brahms and Fauré, and "Tu che le vanita" from Verdi's Don Carlo (further program details below). The program will conclude with the pair singing a duet from Verdi's Otello.

In February and March, Marcello Giordani sings three roles at the Metropolitan Opera: the title role in Ernani, Radames in Aida (a role in which he made his debut just last season with the San Francisco Opera), and Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly. This past December, he sang the role of Don José in a production of Carmen at the Royal Opera House in Muscat, the capital of Oman. 

In 2008, Meagan Miller won both a George London Award and the London Foundation's Vienna Prize, a two-week residency in Austria where the prize-winner receives an audition with the Vienna Opera and intensive musical coaching in German repertoire and language. This past December, she made her debut in the title role of Daphne at the Vienna State Opera. The Vienna daily Die Presse described her as "floating, powerful in a gleaming debut ... In the center stands a new Daphne, who can do justice to the eminent demands: to grow from many lightning-clean coloratura-decorated flower greetings to appropriate mythic greatness." Coming up later this spring are her role debut as Elisabetta in Don Carlo, and Desdemona in Otello, both with Deutsche Oper Berlin.