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born soprano Flicka Rahn has received accolades and praise for "possessing
a glorious voice which she used with intelligence and technical security...a
voice of lovely, rapturous quality." From art song to opera, musical theater
to oratorio, Ms. Rahn has amassed an extensive list of credentials singing the
standard vocal repertoire required of any professional singer today. Her vast
performance experience, plus her accomplishments as a composer and vocal pedagogue
at the University level, enable Ms. Rahn to cross all musical boundaries.
Ms. Rahn has sung major operatic roles throughout the United States and has appeared as a guest artist with the New York Wagner International Society, the Boston Lyric Opera, Boston Concert Opera, Minnesota Grand Opera and the San Antonio Opera to name a few. She has graced the stages of major concert halls including Carnegie Hall, Boston Symphony Hall, and Boston Academy of Music. Her recent performance of Mahler's Symphony No.2 in Carnegie Hall was reviewed by The Boston Globe as "a true sweet assaying of the soprano part, as confidently placed as the stars in their courses." Ms. Rahn's extensive operatic roles include: Musetta in La Boheme; Mabel in Pirates of Penzance; Gutrune in Gotterdammerung; Rosalinde in Die Fledermaus; Valencienne in The Merry Widow; Mother in Amahl and the Night Visitors; Fledermaus, and Lucy in The Telephone. Oratoric performances include Beethoven's Mass in C, Brahms Requiem, Handel's Messiah, Haydn's The Creation, Faure's Requiem, Mozart's Requiem, Pendereckin's Dies Irae which was conducted by Mr. Penderecki, Stravinsky's Les Noces, Honeggar's Jeanne d'Arc au Bucher, and the Bach Mass in b minor. Concert appearances with orchestras have included performances of Bernstein's West Side Story, Beethoven's Symphony No. 9, Debussy's Chanson de Bilitis, and Mahler's Symphony No. 2. Ms. Rahn also appeared as Rowena in the United States Premiere of Sullivan's Ivanhoe performed in Boston. Her exquisite performance was acclaimed as "exciting and roused the audience to cheering ovations." Recently, Ms. Rahn returned from a recital tour throughout Mexico and South America appearing in Queretaro, Tuxpan and Cuernavaca, Mexico and Belize City, Belize where she sang for the President of Belize. A passionate interpreter of American Art Song, Ms. Rahn is part of a successful duo with pianist and author, Ruth Friedberg. The Friedberg/Rahn Duo are currently in the planning stages of recording a compact disc of Art Songs by American Women Composers. Ms. Rahn has composed music for chorus and solo voice, and two of her Amy Lowell settings are published by Southern Music Company in a collection of songs by American women composers. As an accomplished teacher of voice, Ms. Rahn has served on the faculties of Brandeis University in Boston, Incarnate Word College in San Antonio, and is currently Associate Professor of Voice at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. |
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