Frederica von Stade

Frederica von Stade (born June 1, 1945) is an American mezzo-soprano.

Background

Von Stade's surname derives from the Hanseatic port city of Stade.[1] One of her forebears served as Stade's mayor.[2]

Her great-grandfather was Charles Steele, lawyer, banker and partner of J. P. Morgan.[3] Her grandfathers were Edward W. Clucas, stockbroker and yachtsman, and Francis Skiddy von Stade Sr.,[3] importer of bristles, President of the Saratoga Association[4] and chairman of the United States Polo Association. Her great-aunt, Eleanor Steele Reese, was a concert and opera singer who gave up music for an ascetic life of ranching and rural philanthropy.[5][6] Von Stade's parents were First Lieutenant Charles S. von Stade,[3] winner of the 1941 US Open Polo Championship,[7] and Sara Clucas von Stade,[8] a descendant of Jonathan Trumbull,[8] the last colonial Governor of Connecticut, who became a valued advisor of George Washington during the War of Independence.

Early life

Von Stade's father was killed in action in Germany on April 10, 1945, when his jeep ran over a landmine.[9] The many letters that he had written to von Stade's mother later inspired Kim Vaeth and Richard Danielpour to devise the song cycle Elegies for her.[9]

Von Stade was born in Somerville, New Jersey on June 1, 1945,[2] a premature baby weighing 21/2 pounds.[10] Her mother nicknamed her Flicka - Swedish for "little girl" - after one of her father's polo ponies.[11]

On December 6, 1946, von Stade's mother married Lieutenant Colonel (later Brigadier General) Horace W. Fuller,[3] a decorated war hero who had fought both as a Marine and in the special forces of the Office of Strategic Services, the clandestine precursor of the CIA.[12][13][14] After demobilization, Fuller was sent to Europe by the State Department to help implement the Marshall Plan.[13] He and his family spent several years in Greece and Italy.[15] Von Stade's memories of her childhood in Athens inspired one of the poems in her lyric cycle Paper Wings, which was set to music by Jake Heggie and features on his CD The faces of love.[16]

The Fullers divorced in 1951.[12] Von Stade's mother returned to the US and took up a secretarial position with the CIA in Washington, DC, [5][2] enrolling her daughter in the Holy Trinity School, Georgetown.[2] (In later years, she launched a catering business; von Stade recalled helping her mother and brother prepare a wedding banquet for four hundred,[17] and it was "Soupe a Sara" that von Stade contributed to the Metropolitan Opera Cookbook.[18] Ultimately von Stade's mother crossed the Atlantic again, settling in a Georgian ruin[2] in Ballitore, County Kildare, Ireland.[3])

Von Stade's immediate family was musical. Her father had used to play the piano,[5] and was known to his comrades for his beautiful voice;[19] at Yale, her brother sang in the Whiffenpoof a cappella chorus;[5] and her mother liked listening to operas on the radio.[1] When von Stade was sixteen, her mother took her to the Salzburg Festival to hear Karl Bohm conducting Elizabeth Schwarzkopf and Christa Ludwig in Der Rosenkavalier;[2][20] she enjoyed it greatly (and was enchanted when she discovered the nearby village of St Wolfgang, to which she returned decades later to film Christmas with Flicka.[21]) At her Sacred Heart Convent schools in Bethesda, Maryland[22][2] and Noroton, Connecticut[23] she learned classical music of a graver kind, joining in the choral singing of Mozart, Handel, Palestrina, Roland de Lassus and Josquin des Pres.[24] But the genre that she loved best was the musical theatre of Broadway.[20] She went ten times to hear Ethel Merman in Annie get your gun,[20] and when she was asked to entertain at parties, she sang popular melodies that she had picked up by ear.[25]

After graduating, von Stade spent a year in Paris as a nanny to three children,[8] studying piano at the Ecole Mozart.[20] She heard Schwarzkopf in recital at the Theatre des Champs Elysees,[20] and Carmen at the Opera.[8] Once back in New York, she worked as a secretary for the American Shakespeare Festival,[2] as a sales assistant in the stationery department of Tiffany's[5] and as a singer in oblivious cocktail bars ("customers were not expected to listen, and didn't").[5] But she also began auditioning for small parts in summer stock musicals.[2] Eventually she made her stage debut in the Long Wharf Theater in New Haven, Connecticut, playing Beauty in a production of Beauty and the Beast.[2]

A friend's $50 dare prompted her to apply to a conservatory.[8] Hoping to learn how to read music and how to play the piano well enough to handle pop tunes at parties,[25] she auditioned at New York's Mannes School of Music with Mignon's Connais tu le pays?,[25] and was accepted as a student singer. She was funded by part-time secretarial work and help from her family.[25] Despite a disappointing evening at a Metropolitan Opera Arabella - "Awful, no melody"[2] - she chose to make opera her speciality, because it offered the quickest route to a degree.[20] Under the tutelage of Sebastian Engelberg, she discovered talents in herself that she had not anticipated,[2] yet she was still so unsure of herself that she contemplated a switch to nursing;[2] but a good review of her Lazuli in the college's production of Chabrier's L'Etoile nerved her to enter the Met's 1969 recruitment competition.[2] Her singing of Charlotte's letter aria from Werther got her through to the semi-finals,[8] and Rudolf Bing was sufficiently impressed to sign her up on a comprimario contract without further ado.[8]

Career

1970s

Von Stade debuted at the Met on January 10, 1970, as one of the Three Boys in Die Zauberflote,[26] singing from a vertiginously airborne basket: "We were so scared by the time we got down to the stage that we didn't even know what opera we were in".[25] Her subsequent comprimario roles were Bersi, Cherubino, Hansel, Lola, Maddalena, Mercedes, Nicklausse, Preziosilla, Tosca's Shepherd, Siebel, Suzuki, Tebaldo, Virginella, a Flowermaiden in Parsifal, an Unborn Child in Die Frau ohne Schatten, Wowkle ("Part of my job was to zip Tebaldi up before her high B-flats"[2]), Flora ("The dress was too long, and I kept tripping over it"[25] and a Stephano whose swordplay almost cost Franco Corelli a finger.[2][26]

The Met allowed von Stade to work in other theatres too.[8] In 1971, she gave her first performance with the San Francisco Opera as an F. Scott Fitzgerald-inspired Sextus,[25] later giving her first Cherubino in Santa Fe opposite the Countess of debutante Kiri Te Kanawa.[8] "It was two of the newcomers who left the audience dazzled: Frederica von Stade as Cherubino and Kiri Te Kanawa as the Countess. Everyone knew at once that these were brilliant finds. History has confirmed that first impression."[27] Santa Fe also saw her creating Maria in the posthumous premiere of Villa-Lobos's Yerma.[28] In 1972, she returned there for her first Zerlina and Melisande ("At the point where Pelleas was coming toward me singing 'Je t'aime, je t'aime', I was trying to decide whether to go to a certain pizza parlor after the show").[8][29]

The Met's Goeran Gentele advised her to interrupt her Met career with a period abroad.[30] After recording her first LP in February 1973 - Haydn's Harmoniemesse, conducted by Leonard Bernstein[31] - she went to Paris to sing Cherubino at Versailles and at the Garnier under Georg Solti in the Giorgio Strehler production that introduced the intendancy of Rolf Liebermann.[30] Summer saw her Glyndebourne debut under John Pritchard in Peter Hall's production of the same opera.[32] In the autumn, she returned to San Franciso as Dorabella;[33] and, at Christmas, she came back to the Met as a per-performance contracted principal, debuting her Rosina.[8]

In 1974, she made her Washington Opera debut as Monteverdi's Penelope,[8] having been drawn to the part by Janet Baker's assumption of it for Hall.[8] In Houston, she created Nina in the premiere of Thomas Pasatieri's The Seagull.[8] She sang Cherubino under Herbert von Karajan in her debut at Salzburg,[34] and in San Francisco sang her first Cenerentola.[35] In Alice Tully Hall, she performed a programme of songs, arias and duets with Judith Blegen and the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center,[8] subsequently becoming the first singer admitted to the Society as a member.[15]

In 1975, she went to Houston for her first Octavian ("He has had the best, and it's been done with taste and finesse").[8][36] Rosina was her debut role at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in March.[37] In the autumn, she returned to the Met as Adalgisa: "Unfortunately it wasn't as well prepared as I would have wished."[38]

In 1976, she gave her first recital at Carnegie Hall: forgetting the words of Charles Ives's Tom sails away, she fell across Michael Tilson Thomas's piano in laughter and embarrassment.[8]. She was the only American invited to join the opera companies of both Paris and La Scala when they visited the US in honour of its bicentennial, singing Cherubino with the French tourists and Cenerentola with the Italians.[2][38] In December, she rejoined the La Scala company at their home in Milan, debuting in a concert performance of La damnation de Faust.[39]

Her 1977 began with President James Carter's New Spirit Inauguration Concert, singing Take care of this house from Bernstein's 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue under the baton of the composer.[40][41] Cherubino introduced her to the Vienna State Opera in May.[42] In October, she sang Beatrice in concert under Seiji Ozawa,[43] reflecting her especial affinity with the French repertoire: "French is my favorite because I identify with it and I can completely understand it".[44]

In 1978, she sang her first Charlotte in Houston.[8][45] In 1979, she went to Ottawa for a telecast Cendrillon[2].

1980s

On January 18, 1980, BBC TV broadcast Call me Flicka, an hour-long documentary profile of von Stade filmed over two years in Europe and America. She was seen singing arias by Mozart, Rossini and Massenet, as well as songs by Marie-Joseph Canteloube, George Gershwin and Joni Mitchell[46]. In the autumn, she went to Paris to sing Iphise in Jean-Philippe Rameau's Dardanus; an account of the production's troubles was later written by its conductor[47]. In 1981, she was Elena in Houston in the twentieth century's first American staging of Rossini's La donna del lago[48]. In 1982, she went to Santa Fe to sing her first Mignon[49]. In the autumn, she came back to the Met after a hiatus of six years, singing Idamante opposite Luciano Pavarotti in Jean-Pierre Ponnelle's telecast production of Idomeneo[50].

In 1983, Hamburg heard her as the Composer in Ariadne auf Naxos[51]. At Carnegie Hall, she was the cynosure of a festival of French opera, starring in semi-staged performances of Cendrillon, Mignon and La Perichole[52]. In Minnesota, she premiered Casa Guidi, a song cycle written for her by Dominick Argento[53]. She sang her first Blanche in the Met's production of Poulenc's Les dialogues des Carmelites[54].In 1984, she sang her first Amina in San Francisco's La Sonnambula[55]. In 1985, she sang at the inauguration of President Ronald Reagan's second term of office[56]. In 1987, Granada TV filmed a documentary, The Show Boat Story, about the making of her recording of Jerome Kern's musical[57].

In 1988, she went to Tanglewood to sing A little bit in love from Wonderful Town in a telecast gala celebrating Bernstein's seventieth birthday[58]. Also telecast was Dallas's premiere of The Aspern Papers, in which she created the role of Tina that Argento had written for her[59]. In 1989, she went to London to sing Mozart's Requiem for Carlo Maria Giulini[60], and to Santa Fe for the US's first staging of Cherubin[61].

1990s

In 1990, von Stade was invited to the White House to give a song recital for Presidents George H. W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev[62]. (Her uncle, Taft Broadcasting Company vice-president Frederick H. von Stade[63], was a Bush family friend[64]). In 1990 too a telecast Flicka and friends: von Stade, Hadley and Ramey in concert featured numbers from Show Boat[65].In 1991, she went to London's Barbican Hall to portray the naughty child in a concert presentation of L'Enfant et les sortileges[66]. In New York, she sang in a telecast of the Richard Tucker Music Foundation's Gala XVI[67].

In 1992, she went to London's Barbican for a filmed, semi-staged production of Bernstein's On the Town[68]. In New York, she was at Avery Fisher Hall for the telecast gala marking Rossini's bicentenary[69]. At Santa Fe, she sang her first Xerxes, losing her way in her first big aria: "I came offstage and told my manager, 'I'm here to tell you that you don't actually die from shame'"[70][71].

In 1994, she created the role of the Marquise written for her by Conrad Susa in San Francisco's telecast The dangerous liaisons[72], finally granting Frank Corsaro his wish of twenty years earlier that she should one day play a villain[73].

In 1995, the Met honoured her quarter-century of service with a new Pelleas et Melisande produced by Jonathan Miller[74]. In 1997, she sang in San Francisco's telecast Golden Gate Gala[75]. In 1998, she was in San Francisco again for her debut as Countess Geschwitz in Alban Berg's Lulu[76]; in New York, she sang in a telecast gala with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra[77]. In 1998 too she premiered the Danielpour song cycle Elegies[78].1999 saw her in a Mostly Mozart Festival telecast from Lincoln Center[79]. In Paris, she sang her first Hanna in The merry widow[80]. In Los Angeles, she appeared in A little night music as Desiree Armfeldt, singing a role that had been especially enlarged for her[81].

2000s

In 2000, von Stade went to San Francisco Opera to create the role of Mrs de Rocher in Heggie's Dead man walking[82]; she had been offered the leading part of Sister Helen Prejean, but had declined it in favour of a younger colleague[83]. She shares Prejean's opposition to capital punishment ("an extreme form of state-sponsored vengeance that only demeans and dehumanizes everyone", she says)[84].

In 2001, she sang in the telecast gala that opened Philadelphia's Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts[85]. In 2002, she made her belated debut at the BBC Proms in London's Royal Albert Hall, singing Sheherazade[86]; she had been scheduled to headline the festival's Last Night the year before, but had been thwarted by the grounding of aircraft in the aftermath of the events of September 11[87]. In 2002 too she sang with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir in the festivities accompanying the Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City[88].In 2005, she sang Despina in San Francisco[89], the Grande Duchesse de Gerolstein in Los Angeles[90] and Ottavia in Houston's L'incoronazione di Poppea[91]. At the 57th Emmy Awards, she appeared with William Shatner, singing Alexander Courage's Star Trek theme[92].

In 2008, she created Madeline in Houston's world premiere of Three Decembers, a chamber opera written for her by Heggie[93].In 2009, she went to Kitchener, Ontario, to premiere Nathaniel Stookey's Into the bright lights, a cycle of songs setting three poems that she had written about ageing, singing and her love of her children[94][95]. Also in 2009, she went to Washington to sing with Bill Cosby, James Taylor, and President Barack Obama at the seventy-seventh birthday celebrations of Senator Edward Kennedy[96].(As a 10-year-old, she had helped to babysit some of Robert Kennedy's children[97].) She took with her some young singers from the Bay area whose musical training she had helped to advance[98].

2010s

In 2010, von Stade was again accompanied by some of her young protégés when she paid a visit to Garrison Keillor's radio show, A Prairie Home Companion[99]. In New York, she was honoured at the Metropolitan Opera Guild's annual Waldorf-Astoria luncheon[100], and gave a farewell recital at Carnegie Hall[101].In 2011, the Herbst Theater, San Francisco, was where many colleagues joined her for Celebrating Frederica von Stade, a gala to raise funds for some of her charities[102]. San Francisco Opera honoured her with a farewell tribute in 2012[103].

In 2014, she returned to Houston to create Myrtle in A coffin in Egypt, an opera written for her by Ricky Ian Gordon[104]. In 2015, she created Winnie in Heggie's Great Scott in Dallas[105], and twice appeared with the Dallas Street Choir, a chorus of people enduring homelessness[106]. She continues to sing, to teach and to help young people from disadvantaged backgrounds to enjoy and perform classical music[107][108]. Among the charities with which she has been most deeply involved are the Steinerite Sophia Project and the Berkeley Young Musicians Programme[109] (Oakland's St Martin de Porres School, which she supported for many years, was closed by its presiding bishop in 2017[110].)

Personal life

At Mannes, von Stade met Peter K. Elkus, bass-baritone, photographer[111][112] and, later, teacher[113], a son of Richard J. Elkus, chairman of Ampex[114]. Von Stade and Elkus were married in Paris in the Spring of 1973[115]. In the late 1970s, they moved from their high-rise West Side apartment overlooking the Lincoln Center and the Hudson River[116] to a rented Parisian house near the Bois de Boulogne[117]. Their elder daughter was born in 1977; Jenny Rebecca was named after a Carol Hall song that von Stade favoured as an encore[118]. Jenny Elkus duets with her mother on Frederica von Stade sings Brubeck - Across your dreams[119]. Anna Lisa Elkus was born in 1980[120]. Von Stade's lyric cycle Paper Wings, set to music by Heggie, presents vignettes of Lisa's childhood[121].

As Jenny approached school age, the Elkuses relocated to a Colonial mini-estate on Long Island[122][123]. Elkus coached his wife until 1985: "It's the same old story," said von Stade. "You can't learn to drive from your husband. A husband-and-wife team is a risky thing, [...] We thought we were strong enough to defy it, and we weren't."[124] The Elkuses divorced in 1990[125], the litigation that accompanied their parting becoming a staple of legal textbooks[126].

On December 30, 1990, von Stade married Michael G. Gorman, a San Francisco manufacturer and, later, banker, the father of three children[127][128]. The Gormans lived in a 1910 Tudor Revival house in the middle of Alameda[129][130], before moving to the waterfront[131]. Their first grandchild, Charlotte Frederica, was born in 2010[132].

As a child, von Stade was a tomboy[133]. Despite growing up mostly in horsey New Jersey[134] and her family's equestrian traditions, she never liked riding[135]. On holiday trips to Granny Clucas or to a friend's family's private island near the Kennedys' Hyannis, she enjoyed outdoor pursuits such as tennis, cycling, swimming and sailing[136]. As an adult, she also liked cooking, running, aerobics and visits to the theatre and ballet[137][138][139]. After moving to California, she took up yachting and golf, cycling to the links on a bike splattered with paint in order to lessen its appeal to thieves[140]. (In October 2009, she was robbed of antique china and other family heirlooms worth more than $50,000[141].) Other enthusiasms of hers are country music, the Meghan Markle TV show Suits and the Taken actor Liam Neeson, "because he's Irish"[142].

Von Stade became a Roman Catholic Christian as a child, led to her faith by nuns, priests and a convert grandmother, and attracted by the theatricality of its rituals[143]. Catholicism continues to inform her philosophy[144], reconcile her to her experience of suffering[145] and guide her work as a musician and philanthropist[146].

Recordings

Von Stade has sung on more than a hundred recordings, including symphonic works, sacred music, operas, musicals, art songs, pop songs, folk songs, jazz and comedy. Her recordings have garnered six Grammy nominations, two Grand Prix du Disque awards, the Deutsche Schallplattenpreis, Italy's Premio della Critica Discografica, and "Best of the Year" citations by Stereo Review and Opera News. Her personal favourites are her Arthaus video and Decca audio recordings of Le nozze di Figaro, her EMI Pelleas et Melisande, her DG Mahler Symphony No. 4, her pop album Flicka - Another side of Frederica von Stade and her jazz album Frederica von Stade sings Brubeck - Across your dreams[147].

The lists below feature two CD/SACD hybrid discs, in which a conventional stereo CD recording is combined with a multi-channel Super Audio CD layer; both discs are compatible with any CD machine. CDs flagged with a ===C=== are included in the 2016 compilation Frederica von Stade: the complete Columbia recital albums, which offers collectors two discs otherwise unavailable. All of the von Stade recordings initially released on vinyl LP have been reissued on CD.

CDs and SACDs of music by a single composer

  • Dominick Argento: Casa Guidi; conducted by Eiji Oue; recorded May 2001; Reference Recordings.
  • Berlioz: La damnation de Faust; conducted by Georg Solti; recorded May 1981; Decca.
  • Bernstein; Arias and barcarolles; conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas; recorded September 1993; DG.
  • Bernstein: The Bernstein songbook; conducted by Leonard Bernstein; FVS's contribution recorded January 1977; Sony.
  • Bernstein: On the Town; conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas; recorded June 1992; DG; also issued on Laserdisc video.
  • Chris Brubeck: Convergence; FVS's contribution conducted by Sara Jobin; copyright 2005; CD/SACD; Koch International Classics.
  • Marie-Joseph Canteloube: Chants d'Auvergne, Vol. 1; conducted by Antonio de Almeida; recorded June 1982; Sony.
  • Marie-Joseph Canteloube: Chants d'Auvergne, Vol. 2 & Triptyque; conducted by Antonio de Almeida; recorded July 1985; Sony.
  • Richard Danielpour: Elegies & Sonnets to Orpheus; conducted by Roger Nierenberg; recorded September 1998; Sony.
  • Debussy: Melodies; accompanied by Dalton Baldwin; copyright 1980; EMI.
  • Debussy: Pelleas et Melisande; conducted by Herbert von Karajan; recorded December 1978; EMI.
  • Debussy: Pelleas et Melisande; conducted by Claudio Abbado; recorded live, 28 May 1986; Opera D'Oro.
  • Dvorak: Dvorak in Prague, a celebration; conducted by Seiji Ozawa; recorded December 1993; Sony.
  • de Falla: The Three-Cornered Hat; conducted by Andre Previn; copyright 1983; Philips.
  • Faure: Melodies; accompanied by Jean-Philippe Collard; recorded January 1981; EMI.
  • Faure: L'oeuvre d'orchestre, Vol. 1; conducted by Michel Plasson; recorded June 1980; EMI.
  • Ricky Ian Gordon: A coffin in Egypt; conducted by Timothy Myers; recorded March 2014; Albany Records.
  • Haydn: Harmoniemesse; conducted by Leonard Bernstein; recorded February 1973; issued with Haydn's The Creation as Leonard Bernstein: the royal edition No. 36 of 100; Sony.
  • Haydn: La fedelta premiata; conducted by Antal Dorati; recorded June 1975; Philips.
  • Haydn: Il mondo della luna; conducted by Antal Dorati; recorded September 1977; Philips.
  • Jake Heggie: Dead Man Walking; conducted by Patrick Summers; recorded October 2000; Erato.
  • Jake Heggie: Dead Man Walking; conducted by Patrick Summers; recorded January and February 2011; Virgin.
  • Jake Heggie: The faces of love, the songs of Jake Heggie; accompanied by Jake Heggie; recorded 1998 and 1999; RCA.
  • Jake Heggie: Flesh & stone: songs of Jake Heggie; accompanied by Jake Heggie; copyright 2007; Classical Action.
  • Jake Heggie: Great Scott; conducted by Patrick Summers; recorded October and November 2015; Erato.
  • Jake Heggie: Passing by: songs by Jake Heggie; accompanied by Jake Heggie; recorded June 2007 and January 2008; Avie.
  • Jake Heggie: Three Decembers; conducted by Patrick Summers; recorded March 2008; Albany Records.
  • Humperdinck: Hänsel and Gretel; conducted by John Pritchard; recorded June 1978; Sony.
  • Jerome Kern: Show Boat; conducted by John McGlinn; recorded June - August 1987; EMI.
  • Mahler: Songs of a Wayfarer, Rückert Lieder & Songs from Des Knaben Wunderhorn]]; conducted by Andrew Davis; recorded December 1978; Sony.
  • Mahler: Symphony No. 4; conducted by Claudio Abbado; recorded May 1977; DG.
  • Mahler: Symphony No. 4 & Songs of a Wayfarer; conducted by Yoel Levi; recorded July 1998; Telarc.
  • Massenet: Cendrillon; conducted by Julius Rudel; recorded June 1978; Sony.
  • Massenet: Cherubin; conducted by Pinchas Steinberg; recorded April 1991; RCA.
  • Massenet: Werther; conducted by Colin Davis; recorded February 1980; Philips.
  • Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream; conducted by Eugene Ormandy; recorded April and May 1976; RCA.
  • Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's dream; conducted by Seiji Ozawa; recorded October 1992; DG.
  • Monteverdi: Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria; conducted by Raymond Leppard; recorded June 1979; Sony.
  • Mozart: La clemenza di Tito; conducted by Colin Davis; recorded July 1976; Philips.
  • Mozart: Cosi fan tutte; conducted by Alain Lombard; recorded May 1977; Erato.
  • Mozart: Great Mass in C minor, Ave verum corpus & Exsultate, jubilate]]; conducted by Leonard Bernstein; recorded April 1990; DG.
  • Mozart: Waisenhausmesse; conducted by Claudio Abbado; recorded October 1975; DG.
  • Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro; conducted by Herbert von Karajan; recorded live, 1974; Opera D'Oro.
  • Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro; conducted by Herbert von Karajan; recorded April and May 1978; Decca.
  • Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro; conducted by Georg Solti; recorded June and December 1981; Decca.
  • Offenbach: Arias and overtures; conducted by Antonio de Almeida; recorded December 1994; RCA.
  • Cole Porter: Anything goes; conducted by John McGlinn; recorded August 1988; EMI.
  • Rameau: Dardanus; conducted by Raymond Leppard; recorded November 1980; Erato.
  • Ravel: Sheherazade, Chansons madecasses, Melodies populaires grecques and Melodies hebraiques; conducted by Seiji Ozawa; recorded October and November 1979 and April 1980; Sony.
  • Richard Rodgers: My funny valentine - Frederica von Stade sings Rodgers & Hart; conducted by John McGlinn; recorded September 1989; EMI.
  • Richard Rodgers: The Sound of Music; conducted by Erich Kunzel; recorded December 1987; Telarc.
  • Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia; conducted by Thomas Schippers; recorded live, 31 December 1976; Living Stage.
  • Rossini: The Rossini bicentennial birthday gala; conducted by Roger Norrington; recorded February and March 1992; EMI; also issued on Laserdisc video.
  • Rossini: La donna del lago; conducted by Claudio Scimone; recorded live, 5 October 1981; Ponto.
  • Rossini: Otello; conducted by Jesus Lopez Cobos; recorded September 1978; Philips.
  • Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier; conducted by Edo de Waart; recorded July 1976; Philips.
  • Strauss: New Year's Eve Concert 1992; conducted by Claudio Abbado; recorded December 1992; Sony.
  • Thomas: Mignon; conducted by Antonio de Almeida; recorded June and July 1977; Sony.
  • Verdi: Don Carlo; conducted by Francesco Molinari-Pradelli; recorded live, 22 April 1972; Foyer.
  • Verdi: Don Carlo; conducted by Francesco Molinari-Pradelli; recorded live, 15 June 1972; Living Stage.
  • Verdi: La Traviata; conducted by Richard Bonynge; recorded live, 22 October 1970; Bella Voce.
  • Mack Wilberg: Requiem & other choral works; conducted by Craig Jessop; recorded October 2007; Mormon Tabernacle Choir.

CDs and SACDs of music by more than one composer

  • Angel heart, a music storybook; conducted by Michael Morgan, recorded 2011 and 2012; Oxingale Records.
  • Ardis Krainik celebration gala; recorded live, 20 October 1998; Lyric Opera of Chicago.
  • Judith Blegen & Frederica von Stade: Songs, arias & duets; music by Schumann, Chausson, Schubert, Alessandro Scarlatti, Mozart, Saint-Saens and Brahms, conducted by Charles Wadsworth, recorded November 1974 and January 1975; Sony.
  • A Carnegie Hall Christmas Concert; conducted by Andre Previn; recorded December 1991; Sony.
  • Dance on a moonbeam, a collection of songs and poems; recorded 1998; Telarc.
  • Flicka - another side of Frederica von Stade; music by Richard Rodgers, Mack Gordon, Alan Brandt and Jeremy Lubbock, conducted by Jeremy Lubbock; recorded October 1987; Sony.
  • Frederica von Stade: Berlioz - Nuits d'ete; Debussy - La demoiselle elue; conducted by Seiji Ozawa, recorded October 1983; Sony.
  • Frederica von Stade chante Monteverdi & Cavalli; conducted by Raymond Leppard; recorded July 1984; Erato.
  • Frederica von Stade: the complete Columbia recital albums; an 18-CD compilation released in 2016.
  • Frederica von Stade: French opera arias; music by Meyerbeer, Gounod, Berlioz, Massenet, Offenbach and Thomas, conducted by John Pritchard; recorded January 1976; Sony.
  • Frederica von Stade: Italian opera arias; music by Monteverdi, Rossini, Paisiello, Broschi and Leoncavallo, conducted by Mario Bernardi; recorded August 1977 and July 1978; Sony.
  • Frederica von Stade Live!; music by Vivaldi, Durante, Alessandro Scarlatti, Marcello, Rossini, Ravel, Canteloube, Copland, Hundley, Thomson and Hughes, accompanied by Martin Katz; recorded April 1981; Sony.
  • Frederica von Stade sings Brubeck - Across your dreams; copyright 1996; Telarc.
  • Frederica von Stade sings Mozart & Rossini; conducted by Edo de Waart; recorded September 1975; CD/SACD; PentaTone Classics.
  • Frederica von Stade: Recital; music by Dowland, Purcell, Liszt, Debussy, Canteloube and Carol Hall, accompanied by Martin Katz; recorded December 1977; Sony.
  • Frederica von Stade: Recital, Edinburgh 1976; songs by Dorumsgaard, Mahler, Ives, Poulenc, Britten, Offenbach and Carol Hall, accompanied by Martin Isepp; recorded live, 1976; Gala.
  • Frederica von Stade: Liederabend, Salzburg 1986; songs by Faure, Richard Strauss, Mahler, Copland, Ives, Pasatieri, Canteloube, Schonberg, Poulenc and Offenbach, accompanied by Martin Katz; recorded live, 18 August 1986; Orfeo.
  • Frederica von Stade: Voyage a Paris; songs by Poulenc, Satie, Debussy, Honegger, Ravel and Messiaen, accompanied by Martin Katz; recorded April 1993; RCA.
  • Marilyn Horne: Divas in song - a 60th birthday celebration; accompanied by Martin Katz; recorded January 1994; RCA.
  • Marilyn Horne & Frederica von Stade: Dvorak, Schumann, Mendelssohn; Lieder and duets; accompanied by Martin Katz; recorded July 1992; RCA.
  • James Levine's 25th Anniversary Metropolitan Opera Gala; conducted by James Levine; recorded April 1996; DG.
  • Opera stars in concert: gala concert for Polio-Plus; conducted by Anton Guadagno; recorded September 1988; Amadeo.
  • Puttin' on the Ritz: the great Hollywood musicals; conducted by Erich Kunzel; recorded December 1994; Telarc.
  • A salute to American music; the Richard Tucker Music Foundation Gala XVI; conducted by James Conlon; recorded November 1991; RCA.
  • Simple gifts; music by Handel, Mozart, Mendelssohn, Gluck, Puccini, Vaughan Williams, Schubert, Canteloube, Copland, Carol Hall and Bernstein, conducted by Joseph Silverstein; recorded November 1991; Decca. (Also issued as A song of thanksgiving).
  • Songs of the cat; conducted by Philip Brunelle; copyright 1991; RCA.
  • Pauline Viardot and friends; recorded February 2006; Opera Rara.

Frederica von Stade on DVD

  • Antonín Dvořák: Dvorak in Prague, a celebration; conducted by Seiji Ozawa; recorded in Smetana Hall in December 1993; Kultur.
  • Engelbert Humperdinck: Hansel and Gretel; sung in English; conducted by Thomas Fulton and produced by Nathaniel Merrill; recorded at the Metropolitan Opera in December 1992; Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Wolfgang Mozart: Grosse messe c-moll KV427; conducted by Leonard Bernstein; recorded April 1990; Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Wolfgang Mozart: Idomeneo; conducted by James Levine and produced by Jean-Pierre Ponnelle; recorded at the Metropolitan Opera in November 1982; Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Wolfgang Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro; conducted by John Pritchard and produced by Peter Hall; recorded at Glyndebourne in 1973; Arthaus Musik.
  • Wolfgang Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro; conducted by James Levine and produced by Jean-Pierre Ponnelle; recorded at the Metropolitan Opera in December 1985; Metropolitan Opera.
  • Gioachino Rossini: La Cenerentola; conducted by Claudio Abbado and produced by Jean-Pierre Ponnelle; filmed in Vienna in 1981; Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Richard Strauss: New Year's Eve Concert 1992 - Richard Strauss Gala; conducted by Claudio Abbado; recorded in Berlin in 1992; Kultur.
  • A Carnegie Hall Christmas Concert; conducted by Andre Previn; recorded December 1991; Kultur.
  • Christmas with Flicka; conducted by Julius Rudel; filmed in Austria, copyright 1987; Kultur.
  • Christmas with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square, also issued as The Wonder of Christmas with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square; conducted by Craig Jessop and Mack Wilberg; recorded December 2003; MTC.
  • Glyndebourne Festival Opera Gala Evening; conducted by Andrew Davis and Bernard Haitink; recorded 1992; Image Entertainment.
  • The Metropolitan Opera Centennial Gala; conducted by James Levine et al.; recorded October 1983; Deutsche Grammophon.
  • The Metropolitan Opera Gala 1991 - 25th Anniversary at Lincoln Center; conducted by James Levine; recorded September 1991; Deutsche Grammophon.
  • James Levine's 25th Anniversary Metropolitan Opera Gala; recorded April 1996; Deutsche Grammophon.

Honors

Von Stade was honored with an award in 1983 at the White House by President Reagan in recognition of her significant contribution to the arts, and by France's second highest honor in the Arts as an officer of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres[148]. In April, 2012 was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She holds honorary doctorates from the universities of Boston and Yale, the Mannes School of Music, the Cleveland Institute of Music, the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and the Georgetown University School of Medicine.[149][150]

Trivia

Von Stade was the idol of key character Maggie in the CBS series Northern Exposure (her interpretation of Bailero from Canteloube's Chants d'Auvergne appeared on its original soundtrack album).[151]

A case summary involving a dispute over marital property and earnings (Elkus v. Elkus, 572 N.Y.S.2d 901 (N.Y. App. Div. 1991))[152] between von Stade and Peter Elkus, formerly her husband, appears in Dukeminier's Property textbook, commonly used in the first year of law school.

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