This thesis consists two parts, first is the “Master Degree Recital” and second is the “Graduate Recital” . Program and the notes are included in both parts.

The program of the “Graduate Recital” includes Henry Purcell (1659-1695): If music be the food of love, When I am laid in earth from Opera “Dido and Aeneas”, Henri Duparc (1848-1933): Chanson triste, L’Invitation au voyage, Phidylé, Reynaldo Hahn (1874-1947): Si mes vers avaient des ailes, Mai, L’énamourée, Vincenzo Bellini (1801-1835): Qui la voce sua soave from Opera “I Puritani” Tyzen Hsiao (1938-2015): A sprig of grass, The most beautiful flower, The song of Lily, Luigi Arditi (1822-1903): Il bacio, Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951): Langsamer Walzer from Schikaneder’s “The Mirror of Arcadia” Johann Strauss II (1825-1899): Frühlingsstimmen.

The program of the “Master Degree Recital” includes Felix Mendelssohn
(1809-1847): Hear ye, Israel, Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848): Me voglio fal’na casa, Franz Schubert (1797-1828): Da quel sembiante appresi, Auf dem Wasser zu singen, Richard Strauss (1864-1949): Zueignung, Francis Poulenc (1899-1963): Priez pour paix, Les chemins de l’amour, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791): Abendempfindung, Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868): La pastorelladell’ Alpi, Robert Schumann (1810-1856): Widmung, Pauline Viardot (1821-1910): Haï luli!, Eva Dell’Acqua (1856-1930): Villanelle, Chinese Folk Song: Swallow, Lingerie, you wonderful singers, Charles Gounod (1818-1893): Je veux vivre from Opera “Roméo et Juliette”