“Frauenliebe und Leben“ - Robert Schumann

Soprano Anneka Olson, Choreographer/Dancer Maritza Mercado-Narcisse, Pianist Dave Hurlbert. Recorded 4/17/13 at the Marigny Opera House in New Orleans, Louisiana. Frauenliebe und -leben (A Woman’s Love and Life) is a cycle of poems by Adelbert von Chamisso, written in 1830. They describe the course of a woman’s love for her man, from her point of view, from first meeting through marriage to his death, and after. Selections were set to music as a song-cycle by masters of German Lied, namely Carl Loewe, Fran