REPERTOIRE
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
Allazim | Zaïde | Mozart |
Siskov | From the House of the Dead | Janacek |
Bartolo | Il Barbiere di Siviglia | Rossini |
Private Grayrock | The Mockingbird (World Premiere) | Musgrave |
Baritone | Gloria: A Pigtale (US Premiere) | HK Gruber |
Scrooge | A Christmas Carol | Musgrave |
Maximillian | Candide | Bernstein |
Ubalde | Armide | Glück |
Frére Leon | St. François d'Assise | Messiaen |
Onegin | Eugene Onegin | Tchaikovsky |
Don Alfonso | Cosi fan tutte | Mozart |
Kaiser Overall | Der Kaiser von Atlantis | Ullmann |
Mercutio | Romèo et Juliette | Gounod |
Nardo | La Finta Giardiniera | Mozart |
Count Almaviva | Le Nozze di Figaro | Mozart |
Marcello | La Bohème | Puccini |
Falke | Die Fledermaus | J. Strauss |
Don Pasquale | Don Pasquale | Donizetti |
Beckmesser | Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg | Wagner |
Golaud | Pelléas et Melisande | Debussy |
Chou En Lai | Nixon in China | John Adams |
Tarquinius | The Rape of Lucretia | Britten |
Leporello | Don Giovanni | Mozart |
Harlekin | Ariadne auf Naxos | R. Strauss |
Rodrigo | Don Carlo | Verdi |
Ford | Falstaff | Verdi |
Wolfram | Tannhäuser | Wagner |