Moonlight Reflections Stacey Alleaume & Amir Farid

• Cécile Chaminade (1857 - 1944):
• 1 Chaminade: L’été 03:48
• Henri Duparc (1848 - 1933):
• 2 Duparc: L’Invitation au voyage 04:37
• Frank Bridge (1879 - 1941):
• 3 Bridge: O that it were so! 02:27
• Giacomo Puccini (1858 - 1924):
• 4 Puccini: Terra e mare 01:57
• 5 Puccini: Sole e amore 01:58
• Amy Beach (1867 - 1944):
• 6 Beach: Chanson d’amour Op.21 No.1 05:33
• Pietro Cimara (1887 - 1967):
• 7 Cimara: Stornello 02:52
• Reynaldo Hahn (1874 - 1947):
• 8 Hahn: L’Énamourée 03:38
• 9 Hahn: À Chloris 02:59
• Ottorino Respighi (1879 - 1936):
• 10 Respighi: Notte P.97 No.1 03:18
• 11 Respighi: Nebbie 03:02
• 12 Respighi: Contrasto 01:40
• Jules Massenet (1842 - 1912):
• 13 Massenet: Être aimé 02:01
• 14 Massenet: Amoureuse 03:18
• Camille Saint-Saëns (1835 - 1921):
• 15 Saint-Saëns: Clair de lune 01:37
• Amy Beach:
• 16 Beach: Three Browning Songs Op. 44 1. The Year’s at the Spring 00:56
• 17 Beach: Three Browning Songs Op. 44 2. Ah, Love but a day! 03:10
• 18 Beach: Three Browning Songs Op. 44 3. I send my heart up to thee 03:12
• Total Runtime 52:03

Info for Moonlight Reflections

A recital album full to the brim with exquisite art song, this recording is a compilation of hidden treasures and classic favourites performed by Opera Australia star, Stacey Alleaume.

An Australian-Mauritian soprano of increasing acclaim, Alleaume, who has been praised for her “voice of bell-like purity” (Limelight Magazine) is accompanied by exceptional pianist Amir Farid. Together, they perform the works of much loved composers including Camille Saint-Saëns, Henri Duparc, Giacomo Puccini, Reynaldo Hahn and Jules Massenet, whose exquisite songs explore sentiments penned by such notable poets as Charles Baudelaire, Victor Hugo, Ada Negri and Robert Browning.

The inspiration for the album’s title Moonlight Reflections, came from Saint-Saëns composition, Clair de lune, meaning ‘moonlight’. The album embraces the concept that art song serves as a reflection upon moments in life. The works selected for this recording take the listener on a significant emotional journey: from the joyfulness at the renewal of summer, the gaiety of birds singing and the happiness of a morning-song to the open expression of eternal love contrasted against the unbearable grief of a lost beloved.

The programme includes two ensemble works by composer Amy Beach featuring cellist Zoe Knighton and violinist Erica Kennedy.

“Moonlight Reflections is a charming and illuminating portrait album of a soprano on an upward trajectory… Indeed, she brings a sense of the operatic to some of the songs with flourishes and opulent endings. Alleaume tells her tale well and we look forward to more from this talented soprano.” (SoundsLikeSydney)

Stacey Alleaume, soprano
Amir Farid, piano
Zoe Knighton, cello (track 6)
Erica Kennedy, violin (track 7)

Stacey Alleaume
Australian-Mauritian Soprano Stacey Alleaume has established herself as one of Australia's most accomplished performers.

After being invited to join the Moffatt Oxenbould Young Artist Program at Opera Australia in 2016, Stacey was awarded the prestigious AOAC Dame Joan Sutherland Scholarship for outstanding Australian operatic talent. In her first year as a young artist, she made three role debuts at the Sydney Opera House: Micaëla in Carmen, Leïla in The Pearl Fishers and Alexandra Mason in The Eighth Wonder.

Since then, her principal roles with Opera Australia have included Violetta Valéry in La Traviata both on the mainstage and Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour, Fiorilla in Il Turco in Italia, Sophie in Werther, Gilda in Rigoletto, Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro and Valencienne in The Merry Widow. Stacey has also toured with Opera Australia performing the roles of Gretel in Hansel and Gretel, Pamina in The Magic Flute and Rosina in The Barber of Seville. On the concert stage, Stacey has performed works with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra and the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, notably Nielsen’s Symphony No. 3 under Maestro Sir Andrew Davis.

In 2019, Stacey made her European debut performing Gilda in Rigoletto in the Bregenzer Festspiele, and was invited to return in the 2021/22 season to reprise the role. She also covered the title role in Lakmé, and sang the role of Frasquita in Carmen, both for The Royal Opera House Muscat.

Stacey features in the romantic comedy Falling for Figaro, as the singing voice of Millie (Danielle Macdonald). Directed by Ben Lewin, the film will be released internationally in 2021.

Stacey has enjoyed considerable success in important vocal competitions, winning the Waiariki Institute of Technology New Zealand Aria in 2011, as well as Australia’s longest-running and most prestigious awards, The Sydney Eisteddfod Opera Scholarship 2012 and the Herald Sun Aria 2013.

Her artistic development has been supported by Melba Opera Trust scholarships in 2010 and 2012. She is a graduate of the University of Melbourne (Bachelor of Music, 2008) and an alumna of the Music Academy of the West, Santa Barbara (2015).

Booklet for Moonlight Reflections