Opera Star Deborah Voigt to Make Provincetown Debut, 8/2

The Art House in Provincetown, MA, headed by Mark Cortale, will present Metropolitan Opera Star Deborah Voigt in "Voigt Lessons" created by Terrence McNally, Francesca Zambello and Deborah Voigt, for one night only on August 2 at 6:30 PM. Music Direction is by Kevin Stites, and the production is Directed by Richard Jay-Alexander. "Voigt Lessons" was originally created by the Glimmerglass Opera in 2011. This performance will mark Ms. Voigt's Provincetown debut as part of the critically acclaimed Broadway @ The Art House concert series. For tickets and information visit www.ptownarthouse.com or call 800-838-3006.

In "Voigt Lessons," the internationally beloved opera star shares memories and music from her celebrated career in an intimate account of her life beyond the velvet curtains. Through anecdotes and backstage stories, she describes her astonishing rise to the operatic heights despite the challenges she faced in private, and performs arias, pop songs, standards and spirituals all of deep personal significance in an evening imbued with her trademark warmth, candor and sense of humor. Her new memoir, Call Me Debbie: True Confessions of a Down-to-Earth Diva, was published in January 2015.

Deborah Voigt is recognized as one of the world's most versatile singers, known for the unique power and beauty of her voice, and for her captivating stage presence. Having made her name as a leading dramatic soprano, she is internationally acclaimed for her performances in the operas of Wagner, Strauss, and more, and is also an active recitalist and performer of Broadway standards and popular songs. In addition to her extensive discography, she appears regularly as both performer and host in the Metropolitan Opera's Live in HD series, which is transmitted live to movie theaters around the world.

Under James Levine's leadership, she made her role debut as Marie in Berg's Wozzeck, opposite Thomas Hampson at the Met. Throughout her career, Voigt has given definitive performances of iconic roles in German opera, from Richard Strauss's Ariadne, Salome, Kaiserin (Die Frau ohne Schatten) and Chrysothemis (Elektra) to Wagner's Sieglinde (Die Walküre), Elisabeth (Tannhäuser), and Isolde. She is also noted for starring roles in Strauss's Egyptian Helen, Der Rosenkavalier, and Friedenstag; Wagner's Lohengrin; and Berlioz's Les Troyens, and her portrayals of such popular Italian roles as Tosca, Aida, Amelia (Un ballo in maschera), Leonora (La forza del destino), La Gioconda, and Minnie (La fanciulla del West).

A devotee of Broadway and American song, Voigt has given acclaimed performances of popular fare, including benefit concerts for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS and New York Theatre Workshop. She has sung with Barbara Cook and Dianne Reeves at the Hollywood Bowl, and given performances in Lincoln Center's long-running American Songbook series, singing Broadway and popular standards. In the summer of 2011 Voigt was critically praised as Annie Oakley at the Glimmerglass Festival in Cooperstown, headlining both Irving Berlin's beloved "Annie Get Your Gun" and her own "Voigt Lessons." In concert, she collaborated with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, and Zurich's Tonhalle Orchestra, and made a pair of special guest appearances, duetting with singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright at London's BBC Proms, and joining Broadway star Kristin Chenoweth for a medley of music and comedy at Carnegie Hall.

Elsewhere during the 2014-15 season, Ms. Voigt reprises her star turn in Francesca Zambello's Salome for her Dallas Opera debut; makes her title role debut in a new staging of The Merry Widow at Michigan Opera Theater; and undertakes the roles of Elisabeth and Venus in Tannhäuser at the Hamburg State Opera. In concert, she headlines the Las Vegas Philharmonic's opening-night gala and season-closing events at both the Pacific Symphony and the University of Southern Mississippi Symphony. As WQXR's inaugural Susan W. Rose Artist-in-Residence, she co-hosts the opening-night broadcast of Carnegie Hall Live, hosts the classical station's new fall series The Sopranos with Debbie Voigt; hosts and performs at the New York Public Radio Gala; and co-hosts a number of opera events and masterclasses at WQXR's Jerome L. Greene Performance Space.

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