Bard Conservatory Graduate Vocal Arts Program Presents
Graduate Degree Recital: Alexis Seminario, soprano,
with Collaborative Pianist Diana Borshcheva
Sunday, May 8, 2022
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space
3:00 pm – 4:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
3:00 pm – 4:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
Femme Fatale
“God should have made girls lethal when he made monsters of men.” - Elisabeth Hewer A femme fatale (literally "fatal woman"), sometimes called a man-eater or vamp, is a mystic character that is a beautiful, and seductive woman whose charms trap her lovers, often leading them into compromising, deadly circumstances. An archetype of literature and art. Her ability to enchant, entice and hypnotize her victim with a spell was in the earliest stories seen as verging on supernatural; hence, the femme fatale today is still often described as having a power akin to an enchantress, seductress, witch, having power over men. Femmes fatales are typically villainous, or at least morally ambiguous, and always associated with a sense of mystification, and unease.
This projects tracks the course of the making of a femme fatale through a non-linear fashion: Innocence, Growing Up, Vulnerability, Betrayal, Revenge and the process of Healing.
Soprano Alexis Seminario is a second year student in the Graduate VAP. Operatic roles include Forester’s Wife (The Cunning Little Vixen), Monica (The Medium), Atalanta (Xerxes), Lusya (Moscow Cheryomushki), Helena (A Midsummer Night’s Dream). In 2021, Alexis was an Apprentice at Bard SummerScape and was a featured soloist in the Bard Music Festival. In summer 2022, Alexis will be an Apprentice Artist with Des Moines Metro Opera covering the role of Rose in the premiere of A Thousand Acres. Alexis is an alum of Houston Grand Opera: YAVA. In April, Alexis appeared as the Soprano Soloist in Brahms Requiem with The Orchestra Now (TŌN.)
This event will also be live-streamed HERE
For more information, call 845-758-7196, or e-mail [email protected].
Time: 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
Location: Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space