Lauris Elms - Roles and Recordings

Roles and Recordings

Her principal roles were: Micah (Samson), Arsace (Semiramide), Amneris (Aida), Azucena (Il trovatore), Ulrica (Un ballo in maschera), Eboli (Don Carlos), the title role in Carmen, Frugola, Principessa, Zita, (Il trittico), Lucretia (The Rape of Lucretia), Mistress Quickly (Falstaff), Sesto (La clemenza di Tito), Caesar (Julius Caesar), Orpheus (Orpheus), Mrs Sedley (Peter Grimes), and Anna and Dido (Les Troyens), Bradamante (Alcina), and Judith Bluebeard's Castle, Delilah (Samson and Delilah), Fricka (Die Walküre), Erda (Siegfried), and the Ice Queen (Schwanda the Bagpiper).

Her recordings include:

  • highlights from Bononcini's Griselda (title role)
  • Benjamin Britten's Peter Grimes
  • Chausson's Poème de l'amour et de la mer
  • Elgar's Sea Pictures
  • highlights from Carl Heinrich Graun's Montezuma (title role)
  • Handel's Alcina (with Joan Sutherland, Margreta Elkins, Spiro Malas and others)
  • Liszt songs with David Miller
  • Schubert lieder with John Winther
  • a video of Verdi's Il trovatore with Joan Sutherland, conducted by Richard Bonynge, recorded at the Sydney Opera House
  • Brahms, Duparc and Berg songs with Geoffrey Parsons
  • Debussy and Beethoven song recitals
  • operatic arias with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and the West Australian Symphony Orchestra

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