Thousands of Miles Kate Lindsey & Baptiste Trotignon

• Kurt Weill (1900-1950):
• 1 Nanna’s Lied 03:24
• 2 The Threepenny Opera: Pirate Jenny - Barbara Song 04:23
• 3 Lost in the Stars: Trouble Man 03:36
• Alma Mahler (1879-1964):
• 4 Hymne 05:20
• Kurt Weill:
• 5 Je ne t’aime pas 04:42
• 6 Lost in the Stars: Thousands of Miles - Big Mole 04:42
• 7 Don’t Look Now 03:01
• Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897-1957):
• 8 Schneeglöckchen 02:52
• Alma Mahler:
• 9 Die stille Stadt 03:05
• Erich Wolfgang Korngold:
• 10 Mond, so gehst du wieder auf 04:10
• Kurt Weill:
• 11 Street Scene: Lonely House - We’ll Go Away Together 05:44
• 12 Der Abschiedsbrief 03:19
• 13 Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny: Denn wie man sich bettet, so liegt man 04:34
• 14 Buddy on the Nightshift - Berlin im Licht 03:41
• Alexander von Zemlinsky (1871-1942):
• 15 Und hat der Tag all seine Qual 04:19
• 16 Selige Stunde 02:16
• Total Runtime 01:03:08

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Closing the distance between classical music and Broadway, between the old world and the new, this album is born out of a stunning encounter between two performers. Kate Lindsey is an opera star whose career is skyrocketing. She has stunned audiences with her performances of Mozart and Purcell. Baptiste Trotignon is a multi award-winning jazz pianist who plays with big names like Brad Mehldau or Tom Harrell, but who has a long-held interest in classical music, even composing a piano concerto for Nicholas Angelich. Together, they have produced a rich and varied programme around the songs of Kurt Weill, from Nanna’s Lied to Trouble Man, and classics from The Threepenny Opera and Lost in the Stars.

This journey through three European languages brings the listener to the very beginnings of jazz, and features all-new arrangements and deft improvisations by pianist Baptiste Trotignon. Lindsey and Trotignon also pay homage to three composers who, like Weill, all emigrated to the United States: Alma Mahler, Zemlinsky and Korngold. London-based American mezzo-soprano Kate Lindsey joins Alpha Classics for several recordings over the coming years.

“a stunning encounter between two performers”

Kate Lindsey, Mezzosopran
Baptiste Trotignon, Klavier

Kate Lindsey
As well as launching her debut album with Alpha Classics in May 2017, this season sees Kate make her debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra and Yannick Nézet-Séguin singing Mozart's Mass in C minor. She returned to the Royal Opera House Covent Garden and Los Angeles Opera as Nicklausse in Les Contes d'Hoffmann. She also debuted at Washington National Opera portraying Sister Helen Prejean in Jake Heggie's compelling opera Dead Man Walking, and will reappear at the Vienna State Opera singing Cherubino in Le Nozze di Figaro followed by a concert tour with the Orchestre de Paris featuring selections from Cantaloube's Chants d'Auvergne. In the summer of 2017 she returns to the esteemed Glyndebourne Festival to sing the role of Sesto in Mozart's La Clemenza di Tito.

Ms. Lindsey has already appeared in many of the world’s prestigious opera houses, including the Metropolitan Opera, the Wiener Staatsoper, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, the Bayerische Staatsoper, the Glyndebourne Opera Festival, the Aix-en-Provence Festival, the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Santa Fe Opera, Seattle Opera, Los Angeles Opera and Lille Opera. Her repertoire includes Rosina in Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro, Zerlina in Don Giovanni, Idamante in Idomeneo, Sesto in La Clemenza di Tito, Angelina in La Cenerentola, Hansel in Hansel und Gretel, Der Komponist in Ariadne auf Naxos and Nicklausse/The Muse in Les Contes d’Hoffmann. She also created the title role in the premiere of Daron Hagen’s Amelia at the Seattle Opera.

An accomplished concert singer, Ms. Lindsey sang the premiere performances of a new commission by John Harbison with James Levine and the Boston Symphony Orchestra. She has also appeared with the New York Philharmonic, Cleveland Orchestra, Royal Concertgebouw, Orchestre de Paris, St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, Met Chamber Orchestra (in Carnegie Hall), and at the Tanglewood and Mostly Mozart festivals. She has worked with many of the world’s most distinguished conductors including Harry Bicket, James Conlon, Mark Elder, Emmanuelle Haïm, Thomas Hengelbrock, Vladimir Jurowski, Louis Langrée, James Levine, Lorin Maazel, David Robertson, Jérémie Rhorer, and Franz Welser-Möst. In recital, she has been presented by the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Rockefeller University in New York City.

Ms. Lindsey recently starred in the Metropolitan Opera’s HD broadcast of its new production of Les Contes d’Hoffmann. She was also featured in its broadcasts of La Clemenza di Tito and The Magic Flute (which was subsequently released on DVD).

A native of Richmond, Virginia, Ms. Lindsey holds a Bachelor of Music Degree with Distinction from Indiana University and is a graduate of the Metropolitan Opera's Lindemann Young Artist Development Program. Her many awards include a prestigious 2011 grant from the Festival Musique et Vin au Clos Vougeot the 2007 Richard F. Gold Career Grant, the 2007 George London Award in memory of Lloyd Rigler, the 2007 Lincoln Center Martin E. Segal Award, and a 2006 Sullivan Foundation Grant.

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