Maestrino Mozart Marie-Eve Munger, Les Boréades de Montréal & Philippe Bourque

• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791):
• 1 Mozart: Il sogno di Scipione, K. 126: Aria "Biancheggia in mar lo scoglio" 07:34
• 2 Mozart: La finta semplice, K. 51: Aria "Amoretti che ascosi que siete" 04:57
• 3 Mozart: Die Schuldigkeit des ersten Gebots, K. 35: Aria: "Ein ergrimmter Löwe brüllet" 06:31
• 4 Mozart: Bastien und Bastienne, K. 50: Aria: "Mein liebster Freund hat mich verlassen" 02:31
• 5 Mozart: La finta semplice, K. 51: Aria "Colla bocca, e non col core" 02:52
• 6 Mozart: Recitativo "O temerario Arbace" – Aria "Per quel paterno amplesso", K. 79 06:24
• 7 Mozart: Mitridate, rè di Ponto, K. 87: Aria "Al destin che la minaccia" 06:47
• 8 Mozart: Mitridate, rè di Ponto, K. 87: Aria "Nel grave tormento" 04:46
• 9 Mozart: Mitridate, rè di Ponto, K. 87: Recitativo "Ah ben ne fui presaga" - Aria "Pallid’ombre" 06:55
• 10 Mozart: Ascanio in Alba, K. 111: Aria "Dal tuo gentil sembiante" 05:22
• 11 Mozart: Lucio Silla, K. 135: "Fra i pensier più funesti di morte" 03:18
• 12 Mozart: Lucio Silla, K. 135: Recitativo "In un istante oh come" – Aria "Parto, m’affretto" 06:51
• Total Runtime 01:04:48

Info for Maestrino Mozart

For her second collaboration on the ATMA Classique label, Québec soprano Marie-Eve Munger presents a program devoted exclusively to operatic repertoire by the young Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, who composed these rarely heard arias between the ages of 10 and 16. Though often overlooked, this music is surprisingly rich. Munger is accompanied by Les Boréades de Montréal conducted by Philippe Bourque.

During his short life, Mozart became one of the most accomplished opera composers, especially when he collaborated with such a librettist as Da Ponte. Few works in the entire history of music reach the sophistication and dramatic veracity of Don Giovanni or The Marriage of Figaro. However, we tend to assume that his first attempts at opera are the result of someone too young to master this most complex of genres. We think of his early works as juvenile, sparkling, and charming, but even if this might be true of some, we cannot listen to Mitridate or Lucio Silla and say the music is simply “charming”— on the contrary, it is dramatic, embodied and powerful: it is moving. ...

Marie-Eve Munger, soprano
Les Boréades de Montréal
Francis Colpron, artistic director
Philippe Bourque, conductor

Marie-Eve Munger
Born in Saguenay, Québec, Canadian coloratura soprano Marie-Eve Munger enjoys a flourishing career in both North America and Europe. She earned a global reputation for her "disarmingly easy coloratura... always preserving the warmth of the timbre" (Opéra Magazine) and her strong stage presence - "she stole the show" (The Washington Post).

Recent successes include her debut with Lyric Opera of Chicago in Massenet's Cendrillon, Teatro alla Scala, Barcelona's Liceu and Festival d'Aix-en-Provence in Patrice Chéreau's production of Elektra, La Monnaie with the world premiere of Pinocchio, Opéra de Marseille in My Fair Lady, Opéra de Montréal in Roméo et Juliette, Munich's Bayericher Rundfunks in Lakmé and l'Enfant et les Sortilèges, Opéra de Lausanne for Ariadne auf Naxos and My Fair Lady, Chicago Symphony Orchestra in L'Enfant et les Sortilèges, Angers-Nantes Opera for Hamlet, Opéra de Toulon for the Countess in Rossini's Le Comte Ory and Donna Elvira, and Paris Opéra Comique in Le Pré aux Clercs, Fantasio and La Bohème.

​ This season, she sings Handel's Theodora with Trinity Wall Street in New York City and Caramoor, the Queen of the Night in Magic Flute with Opéra National du Rhin in Strasbourg and Mulhouse, the title role in Domino Noir by Auber with Opéra de Lausanne, the Fairy Godmother in Cendrillon with Opéra de Limoges, along with several concerts and recitals. Recently, she made acclaimed debuts with Opéra National du Rhin as the Nightingale in Die Vögel by Walter Braunfels and with Opéra de Lille as Tytania in Midsummer Night's Dream by Britten.

​ At home with contemporary music, she sings the Fairy in Boesmans/Pommerat's Pinocchio with Festival d'Aix-en-Provence, La Monnaie de Munt in Brussels and Opéra de Dijon; and she created the role of La Colorature in Frédéric Verrières's The Second Woman at the Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord in Paris. Montréal Symphony Orchestra and Kent Nagano commissioned for her Paradis Perdu to composer Régis Campo, she sangs in Pessons's Pastorale at the Théâtre du Châtelet as well as Mauro Lanza's piece Nubi non scoppiano per il peso at the Strasbourg Musica Festival. She also collaborated with composer Julian Wachner as librettist for the oratorio Come, my dark-eyed one.

​ Marie-Eve Munger earned her master's degree from the Schulich School of Music at McGill University. She won first prize at the Marmande International Voice Competition in 2007 and won the Choquette-Symcox award from the Jeunesses Musicales du Canada in 2012. ​

When not on stage, outdoorsy Marie-Eve is an avid gardener, a budding sailor and the mother of a wonderful little boy.

Booklet for Maestrino Mozart