Elizabeth Racheva, soprano
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The Cunning Little Vixen © Jesse Hellman

Elizabeth enjoys a wide repertoire for the stage, concerts, and recitals. 

As former artistic director of Voces Intimae, Elizabeth has an extensive interest in and knowledge of song repertoire in many languages and styles.  A sampling is included below.

Opera

BIZET
BRITTEN
COPLAND
DAVIES (after Mozart)

DÉLIBES
GIANNINI
HUMPERDINCK
JANÁčEK
GOODING
MENOTTI
MOZART





PERGOLESI
PUCCINI

SHAPIRO
WARGO
Carmen
Peter Grimes
The Tender Land
The Three Little Pigs

Lakmé
Beauty & the Beast
Hansel & Gretel
The Cunning Little Vixen
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
The Medium
Così fan tutte
La finta giardiniera
Le nozze di Figaro

Die Zauberflöte


La serva padrona
La bohème
La rondine
The April Witch
The Music Shop
Frasquita
Niece One
Laurie Moss
Despina Pig
Cherubino Pig
Ellen
First Daughter
Gretel
Vixen Sharp-Ears
Katrina van Tassel
Mrs. Gobineau
Despina
Serpetta
Barbarina
Susanna
Erste Dame
Papagena
Serpina
Musetta
Lisette
Cecy, title role
Masha

Operetta & Musical Theater

BERNSTEIN
GILBERT
HAMMERSTEIN
HERBERT
LÉHAR
SONDHEIM
STRAUSS, J.
West Side Story
The Gondoliers
Oklahoma
Naughty Marietta
The Merry Widow
Into the Woods
Die Fledermaus
Maria
Gianetta
Laurie
Lizette
Valencienne
Princess
Adele

Suggested Repertoire

BELLINI
BIZET
BRITTEN
GILBERT
MENOTTI
MOZART


SUSA
STRAUSS, R.
STRAVINSKY
L’elisir d’amore
Les Pêcheurs de Perles
The Turn of the Screw
The Mikado
The Old Maid and the Thief
Don Giovanni
Idomeneo
Die Zauberflöte
Transformations
Der Rosenkavalier
The Rake’s Progress

Adina
Lëila
Governess
Yum-Yum
Laetitia
Zerlina**
Ilia
Pamina**
Anne Sexton
Sophie
Anne Trulove
**roles thoroughly prepared for cover assignments

Oratorio & Orchestral

BACH



BARBER
BEETHOVEN
CARISSIMI
FAURÉ
HANDEL

HAYDN
KAPILOW
MENDELSSOHN
MOZART


SCHUBERT
STRAUSS
Ein feste Burg, BWV 80
Wachet auf, BWV 140
Kaffee-Kantata, BWV 211
Weihnachts Oratorium
Knoxville: Summer of 1915
Egmont
Jephté
Requiem
Messiah
Samson
The Creation
Green Eggs and Ham

A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Grand Mass in C Minor
Requiem
Various concert arias

Mass in G
Orchestral Songs & Brentano Lieder


Lieschen


Klärchen
Filia


Israelitish Woman
Gabriel/Eve

Fairy

Chamber

AMELKINA-VERA
ARGENTO
BRAHMS

CORIGLIANO
COWELL
EVERETT
FLANAGAN
HANDEL
HOLST
ILLICK
LAITMAN
SARGON
SCARLATTI

SCHAFER
SCHUBERT
STRAUSS
Vaughan WILLIAMS
VILLA-LOBOS
Sea Song
Letters from Composers
Liebeslieder
Neue Liebeslieder
Three Irish Folksong Settings
Vocalise
Countess P_’s Advice (premiere)
Goodbye, my fancy
Neun Deutsche Arien
4 songs for voice & violin, Op. 35
Union (premiere)
Captivity
Huntsman What Quarry
Sette arie con tromba sola
Su le sponde del Tebro
Minnelieder
Der Hirt auf dem Felsen
Alphorn
Ten Blake Songs
Bachianas Brasilieras, No. 5
sop+mezz+guitar
sop+guitar
vocal chamber music
vocal chamber music
sop+flute
sop+flute+piano
sop+trumpet+piano
sop+flute+guitar
sop+obbligato
sop+violin
sop+horn+piano
sop+trumpet
sop+horn+piano
sop+trumpet+continuo
sop+trumpet+continuo
sop+woodwind quintet
sop+clarinet+piano
sop+horn+piano
sop+oboe
sop+celli

Song

ARGENTO
BERG
COPLAND
DEBUSSY

FALLA
FAURÉ
HEGGIE
OBRADORS
POULENC
PROKOFIEV
RAVEL
RODRIGO
ROSSINI
SCHUMANN
STRAUSS

WOLF
Six Elizabethan Songs~
Sieben frühe Lieder~
12 Poems of Emily Dickinson~
Fêtes galantes I
Quatre chansons de jeunesse
Siete canciones populares españolas
Chanson d’Ève
Rise and Fall
Canciones populares
Fiançailles pour rire
Cinq poèmes d’Anna Akhmatova, Op. 25
Cinq mélodies populaires grecques
Cuatro amatorios madrigales
La regata veneziana~
Frauenliebe und –leben
Brentano Lieder, Nos. 1,2,3,4~
Drei Lieder der Ophelia
Italienisches Liederbuch
Mignon Lieder
~also prepared for performance with orchestra 
* only major cycles listed, contact for complete song repertoire
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