REPERTOIRE

Randall Scarlata Baritone

Examples of Works

Randall Scarlata's concert repertoire spans hundreds of songs, chamber pieces, and works for voice and orchestra. He has performed works in English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Catalan, Portuguese, Russian, Czech, Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, Hungarian, Latin, as well as dialects of these languages.

Some examples of larger works from the classical canon include:


Song

  • Schubert Die Schöne Müllerin, Winterreise, and Schwanengesang, as well as performance of over 100 individual Schubert songs
  • Schumann Dichterliebe, Liederkreis (Heine), Liederkreis (Eichendorff), Kerner Lieder, Harfenspieler Lieder, and many individual songs
  • Brahms Die Schöne Magelone, Vier Ernste Gesänge, etc.
  • Beethoven An die ferne Geliebte, etc.
  • Berlioz Les nuits d'ète
  • Copland Old American Songs
  • Faure La Bonne Chanson, L'horizon chimèrique, Mirages, many songs
  • Poulenc Chanson gaillardes, La fraîcheur et le feu, Banalitès, Le travail du peintre, etc.
  • Ravel Histoires naturelle, Cinq melodies populaire grècques, Don Quichotte à Dulcinee, etc.
  • Vaughan Williams Songs of Travel
  • Wolf Many Mörike Lieder, Eichendorff Lieder, Goethe Lieder, the Spanish and Italian Songbooks
  • World premiers of many new pieces, including songs by Ned Rorem, Lori Laitman, Daron Hagen, Samuel Adler, Thea Musgrave, Robert Capanna, etc.

Voice and Orchestra

  • Bach: St. Matthew Passion, St. John Passion, the Christmas Oratorio, B Minor Mass, the Easter Oratorio, Magnificat, numerous cantatas
  • Beethoven: Symphony No. 9
  • Berlioz: Le nuits d'été, La Damnation de Faust
  • Bernstein: Arias and Barcarolles, Songfest, Mass (Celebrant)
  • Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem
  • Britten: Canta Misericordium, War Requiem
  • Copland: Old American Songs
  • Fauré: Requiem
  • Handel: Messiah
  • Haydn: The Creation, The Seasons
  • Mahler: Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen, Kindertotenlieder, Rückert Lieder, Lieder from the Knaben Wunderhorn, Symphony No. 8
  • Mendelssohn: Elijah
  • Mozart: Coronation Mass, Missa Brevis, Concert Arias
  • Schubert: Songs orchestrated by Brahms, Berlioz, Lizst, Reger
  • Sibelius: Songs with Orchestra
  • Vaughan Williams: A Sea Symphony, Songs of Travel, Mystical Songs, Dona Nobis Pacem
  • Walton: Belshazzar's Feast
  • Wolf: Songs with orchestra

Chamber music

Mr. Scarlata's standard chamber music repertoire includes works of Brahms (Liebeslieder Waltezes, Quartets, songs with viola), Schumann (Spanisches Liederspiel, Spanishes Liebeslieder), Schuber (many duets, trios, quartets), Bernstein (Arias and Barcarolles), Poulenc's Le bal masquè and Le Bestaire, Faurè's La Bonne Chanson with piano quintet, Barber's Dover Beach, Schoenberg's Ode to Napoleon as well as his arrangements of Mahler's Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen and Das Lied von der Erde, Ravel's Chanson Madècasses, and Haydn and Beethoven works with piano trio, as well as numerous new works for voice and chamber ensemble.


Opera Roles

AllazimZaïdeMozart
SiskovFrom the House of the DeadJanacek
BartoloIl Barbiere di SivigliaRossini
Private GrayrockThe Mockingbird (World Premiere)Musgrave
BaritoneGloria: A Pigtale (US Premiere)HK Gruber
ScroogeA Christmas CarolMusgrave
MaximillianCandideBernstein
UbaldeArmideGlück
Frére LeonSt. François d'Assise Messiaen
OneginEugene Onegin Tchaikovsky
Don AlfonsoCosi fan tutteMozart
Kaiser OverallDer Kaiser von AtlantisUllmann
MercutioRomèo et JulietteGounod
NardoLa Finta GiardinieraMozart
Count AlmavivaLe Nozze di FigaroMozart
MarcelloLa BohèmePuccini
FalkeDie FledermausJ. Strauss
Don Pasquale Don PasqualeDonizetti
Beckmesser Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg Wagner
GolaudPelléas et MelisandeDebussy
Chou En LaiNixon in ChinaJohn Adams
TarquiniusThe Rape of LucretiaBritten
LeporelloDon GiovanniMozart
HarlekinAriadne auf NaxosR. Strauss
RodrigoDon CarloVerdi
FordFalstaffVerdi
WolframTannhäuserWagner