Gary Moulsdale
Gary Moulsdale did undergraduate work in literature and philsophy at the University of Toronto, and graduate studies in musicology at Cornell University. In recital, Gary has performed Schubert's "Winterreise," Schumann's "Dichterliebe," twentieth-century song cycles by Britten, Argento and Janacek, as well as thirteenth-century Occitan descorts from "Le manuscrit du roi." On stage, Gary has performed the title roles in the de Falla chmaber opera "El retablo del Maese Pedro," the Schubert singspiel "Fernando," and leading roles in "The Cradle Will Rock," "Amahl and the Night Visitors" and, with fortepianist Francesca Brittan, the Field-Coleridge melodrama, "Ode to the Nightingale." Behind the scenes, Gary has served as the music director for the premiere of the Sater-Milles "The Nero Project" (original songs by Duncan Sheik), and as the production manager of the Cornell-Eastman collaboration 2003 revival of the Lully comedie-ballet, "Le carnaval mascarade." Gary is a regular guest speaker at the Caramoor International Music Festival, where he has lectured on the original cast of Bellini's "La sonnambula" and prostitution in the biography of Marie Duplessis. His dissertation is on Rossini's non-comic operas, and the role of the orchestra in representing female authority on stage. Other research interests include the theatre of Robert Wilson, and the rasa-aesthetics voice and stage movement studies of Richard Schechner.
E-mail: gbm2@cornell.edu