GRADUATE STUDENT LECTURE RECITAL: NAOMI MERER

SATURDAY, MAY 8, 2021 - 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM - ONLINE

Presented by the Department of Music.

Graduate vocalist Naomi Merer (soprano) will present a virtual Doctor of Musical Arts lecture recital, titled Get thee to an asylum: reflecting on the evolution of mental illness and its portrayal in Thomas’s operatic mad scene, with pianist Mandee Madrid Sikich as a YouTube Premiere via the Department of Music’s YouTube channel. Merer will perform excerpts from Songs and Sonnets to Ophelia by Jake Heggie and Hamlet by Charles Ambroise Thomas. Merer is a Doctor of Musical Arts candidate from the studio of UC Santa Barbara Professor Ben Brecher.

This event is free and takes place on Youtube.