Solo     Works with flute     Chamber works     Opera     Orchestral works/oratorio

Solo
Thomas Adès Life Story
J.S. Bach Gott soll allein mein Herze haben
Alison Bauld Banquo’s Buried;
     The Witches’ Song
Alban Berg Four Songs Opus 2
Luciano Berio Sequenza III
William Bolcom selected cabaret songs
Benjamin Britten Cabaret Songs
John Cage Litany for a Whale;
    The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs;
    She Is Asleep
George Crumb The Sleeper
Jacques Ibert La verdure dorée
Charles Ives Sunrise; selected songs
Gyorgy Kurtag S.K. Remembrance Noise
William Ludtke Letters
Erik Satie Trois Poèmes D’Amour;
    L’Omnibus Automobile
Schoenberg selected cabaret songs
Phyllis Tate Two Ballads for Mezzo Soprano & Guitar
Judith Weir Don’t Let That Horse;
    Songs from the Exotic
Kurt Weill selected cabaret songs
Walter Winslow Puna Flowers, Puna Fires

Works with Flute
Warren Benson Five Lyrics of Louise Bogan
Jennifer Higdon Lullaby
Katherine Hoover Seven Haiku
Jacques Ibert Deux Stèles Orientées;
    Aria
William Ludtke Lullaby
Frank Martin Images de Noel
Thea Musgrave Primavera
Maurice Ravel La Flûte enchantée
Joaquin Rodrigo Dos Poemas
Albert Roussel Deux Poèmes de Ronsard

Chamber works
Elinor Armer Lockerbones, Airbones
Alison Bauld Farewell Already
Pierre Boulez Le Marteau sans Maître
Elliott Carter Syringa
Gordon Cross A World Within
John Geist Paradiso
G.F. Handel Süsse stille, sanfte Quelle
Haubenstock-Ramati Credentials
Mauricio Kagel Rrrrrr…;
    Oral Treason: a history of the devil
John Anthony Lennon Ghostfires
Frank Martin Poèmes de l’Amour
Peter Maxwell Davies From Stone to Thorn
Ravel Chansons Madécasses;
    Trois chansons de Stephane Mallarmé
Steve Reich Drumming
Schoenberg Pierrot Lunaire
Charles Shere Dates
Stravinsky Four Russian Songs;
    Three Songs from William Shakespeare
Lester Trimble Four Canterbury Fragments
Judith Weir Waltraute’s Narration
Friedrich Wildgans Die Mystiche Trompeter
Yang Yu Labyrinth & The Orange Is Ripe

Opera
Samuel Barber A Hand of Bridge (Pauline)
Leonard Bernstein Candide (Old Woman)
Benjamin Britten Albert Herring (Mrs. Herring)
Odaline de la Martinez Sister Aimee (Mother Kennedy)
Anna Dembska The Singing Bridge (Lucille)
Gordon Getty Plump Jack (Hostess)
Gilbert and Sullivan Iolanthe (Iolanthe)
Phillip Glass Hydrogen Jukebox (Mezzo I)
Handel Alcina (Bradamante);
    Flavio (Flavio)
Gian Carlo Menotti Amahl and the Night Visitors (Mother)
Douglas Moore The Ballad of Baby Doe (Mama McCort)
Mozart Le Nozze di Figaro (Cherubino)
Thea Musgrave Mary, Queen of Scots (Mary Fleming)
Roxanna Panufnik The Music Progamme (Elinor)
Poulenc Dialogues of the Carmelites (Old Prioress)
Puccini Madama Butterfly (Suzuki)
Rossini The Barber of Seville (Bertha)
Charles Shere Ladies Voices (Lady 3);
    The Bride Stripped Bare
    by her Bachelors, Even (A Nude)
Vaughan Williams Sir John in Love (Dame Quickly)
Judith Weir King Harald’s Saga (8 roles/solo a cappella)
Kurt Weill The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny (Widow Begbick)

Orchestral works/oratorio
Bach Christmas Oratorio;
    Mass in B minor;
    Magnificat in D
Bernstein Chichester Psalm
Bloch Sacred Service
Brahms Liebeslieder Waltzer;
    Neues Liebeslieder
Gesualdo Madrigals, Book VI
Handel Judas Maccabeus;
    Messiah
Mendelssohn Elijah
Mozart Mass in c minor;
    “Parto, parto;”
     Requiem
Mahler Symphony #2;
    Symphony #3;
     Das Lied von der Erde;
     Des Knaben Wunderhorn
Stravinsky Perséphone (Perséphone);
    Pulcinella;
    Mass
Vivaldi Beatus Vir;
     Gloria

Marcia Gronewold as Suzuki in Puccini’s
Madama Butterfly

…as Mary Fleming in Thea Musgrave’s
Mary, Queen of Scots

Backstage at San Francisco Opera

As mezzo soprano soloist with the vocal ensembles Ariel, Modus Novus, the Sanford Dole Ensemble, and the Ineluctable Modality, Marcia Gronewold has sung in premiere performances and recordings of many works. Among the composers whose works she has performed with these groups are Milton Babbitt, Robert Basart, Larry Bell, Richard Rodney Bennett, Luciano Berio, Lennox Berkeley, Laurence Bitensky, Benjamin Britten, Elliott Carter, David Conte, Peter Maxwell Davies, Eberhard Eiser, Vivian Fine, Christopher Fulkerson, Jackie Gabel, Stephen Hartke, Paul Hindemith, Gerald Humel, David Jaffe, Mauricio Kagel, Laszlo Kalmar, Aaron Jay Kernis, Joseph Klein, Annea Lockwood, William Ludtke, Sal Martirano, Luigi Nono, Nigel Osborne, Aribert Reimann, Nigel Osborne, Arvo Pärt, Roger Reynolds, Laszlo Sary, Arnold Schoenberg, Ruth Crawford Seeger, Roger Sessions, Allen Shearer, Charles Shere, Ezra Sims, Richard Strauss, Anatol Vieru, Anton Webern, and Walter Winslow.

With Ariel, she recorded Walter Winslow’s extended madrigal cycle, Madrigals for Five Voices: Cori descrittivi di stati d'animo di Didone on Opus One Records. Other recording credits include work with Opus One, University of Illinois Press, and several composers’ private labels.