Discography
April 12, 2024 • Alpha Classics
"Mozart, you drive me crazy!"
Like her debut album, This Be Her Verse, Golda has dedicated her new album to women - although, this time the focus is on female protagonists from Mozart's operas, more precisely: female characters from Don Giovanni, Così fan tutte and Le nozze di figaro, which librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte conceived. Golda is accompanied by the Kammerakademie Potsdam under conductor Antonello Manacorda.
What fascinates Golda so much about these female protagonists that she has dedicated an entire album to them?
"At the end of each of these three operas, these women are different people to the ones we got to know at the beginning - in complete contrast to many male protagonists, by the way. Don Giovanni, for example, was, is and remains a one-dimensional hedonist. The women go through grief and pain, learn to deal with it, live with it and ultimately grow from it. They had to, and still have to, fight for their identity in a patriarchal society," says Golda. “The constant pressure to be a woman - available, friendly, loyal, chaste, beautiful, playfully challenging - is still frighteningly relevant today.”
And why does Mozart drive Golda mad?
"These Da Ponte roles are an absolute gift for singers, but they also represent an extraordinary, even superhuman challenge. As an interpreter, you have to find a balance between the divine and the human, between pathos and lightness, between vocal perfection and emotional closeness. You have to risk everything. You have to at least try to make the impossible possible. And that can really drive you crazy!
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April 8, 2022 • Alpha Classics
This Be Her Verse
“What if a woman wrote the song?” This question drives a recital of songs by female composers performed by soprano Golda Schultz and pianist Jonathan Ware. Opening with works by Clara Schumann and Emilie Mayer (including her setting of the ballad Erlkönig ), this recital weaves stories of women’s experience with fantastic tales of powerful sirens like the Lorelei. The great American-British violist and composer Rebecca Clarke’s arresting William Blake settings offer a woman’s perspective on texts also set by Benjamin Britten. Devotional works from Nadia Boulanger reveal a compositional master in her own right, in addition to her legendary status as pedagogue to innumerable greats including Aaron Copland and Daniel Barenboim. This be Her Verse, a song cycle by poet-librettist Lila Palmer and composer Kathleen Tagg was directly commissioned by the artists to conclude the programme and add an important contribution to the repertory: Songs written by women, about women, highlighting the female experience.
Composers
Clara Schumann, Rebecca Clarke, Nadia Boulanger, Emilie Mayer, and Kathleen Tagg
Album Singles
January 21, 2022 • Dynamic
Mozart: Requiem in D Minor, K. 626 "Missa pro defunctis"
Orchestra and Chorus Teatro Regio Torino
Conductor - Stefano Montanari
Golda Schultz, Katrin Wundsam, Martin Mitterrutzner, Nahuel di Pierro
2019/2020 • Metropolitan Opera • CD/DVD
The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess
2021 GRAMMY Award Winner - Best Opera Recording
This audio recording from September 23 and October 16, 2019, and this Live in HD recording from February 1, 2020 captures the Met’s historic – and hugely acclaimed – new production of the Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess, which brought America’s favorite opera back to the Met stage after a 30-year absence.
The ideal cast is headlined by Eric Owens and Angel Blue as the title characters, alongside Latonia Moore, Golda Schultz, Alfred Walker, Frederick Ballentine, and Denyce Graves.
Composer: George Gershwin
Artists: Eric Owens, Angel Blue, Frederick Ballentine, Alfred Walker, Latonia Moore, Golda Schultz, Denyce Graves, Donovan Singletary, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra & Chorus
Conductor: David Robertson
Director: James Robinson
