Fidelia is currently embarking on the dramatic Verdian and Verismo Soprano repertoire roles: Amelia (Un Ballo) Elizabetta (Don Carlo) Lady Macbeth (Macbeth) Maddalena /Andrea Chenier (Giordano) La Gioconda (Ponchielli) Adriana Lecouvreur (Cilea) Lisa (Pique Dame), the title role of Turandot (Puccini). Fidelia's recital repertoire is extensive and diverse. A frequent performer at the Carnegie Weil Recital Hall, Ms. Fidelia’s operatic repertoire includes the roles of Verdi’s Leonora in La Forza del Destino and Il Trovatore Mascagni’s Santuzza (Cavaleria Rusticana) Tchaikovsky’s Tatyana (Eugene Onegin) Poulenc’s Blanche de la Force (The Dialogues of the Carmelites) Georgetta (Il Tabarro) Mimi in La Boheme as well as the title roles of Puccini’s Suor Angelica, Butterfly and Tosca amongst other. She returned to Caramoor in subsequent seasons to work on the roles of Leonora in Verdi's Il Trovatore, Leonora in La Forza del Destino and appear in numerous concerts. Jose Beduya is a staff writer, editor and social media coordinator for Cornell University Library.Versatile soprano Anya Fidelia made her professional debut at the Caramoor International Festival under the baton of Maestro Will Crutchfield. “These diaries weren’t meant for a generation that was right there and present,” Zobel said. Late in her life, as Mohegan-Pequot-speaking peers died and younger Mohegans stopped learning the language, Fielding turned to speaking to herself and writing in her diaries to keep the language alive. She spoke to the winds and the rain and the thunder and the Makiawisug, or the Little People,” Zobel said, referring to spirits believed to inhabit the woodlands. Zobel describes Fielding as a preserver of the Mohegan-Pequot language and keeper of the language’s intimate connection to an animated natural world. “The only other objects of hers that we have are a belt that she wore that she passed on to Gladys Tantaquidgeon, and a rocking chair that she told stories on and that belonged to her mentor, Martha Uncas,” said medicine woman and tribal historian Melissa Zobel, referring to two influential elders. “This is a wonderful outcome.”įielding’s papers will be housed and displayed in the Mohegan Archives. “I’m very grateful to everyone at the Cornell Library and in the Mohegan Tribe who has come together to help bring this collection home,” said Cornell University President Martha E. The library also digitized a significant portion of the collection, including Fielding’s diaries, which continue to be used by scholars to research and teach the Mohegan-Pequot language. Since then, the library has provided researchers with on-site access to the Native American Collection and featured its artifacts in physical and online exhibits. “We were glad to do everything we could to facilitate the transfer.”Ĭornell University Library came into possession of Fielding’s papers in 2004, with the acquisition of the Native American Collection of Huntington Free Library in the Bronx, New York. “We have been honored to safeguard Fielding’s diaries for the last 15-plus years, and make them available for research and teaching,” Sauer said.
“We believe that these papers coming home is really Fidelia coming home to us. “The process has been such a wonderful experience for us because everyone at Cornell has been so open to understanding why these papers are so important to us, and so helpful and so willing to share in our happiness in their return,” Malerba said. The Mohegan Tribe reached out to Cornell last year to request the transfer of Fielding’s papers to help with their language revitalization efforts. “Her papers coming back to us sends a powerful message for the next generation: Our language is not lost and that they can be part of its restoration.” “Fidelia’s work is so important in preserving our language and ensuring that it lives on,” she said. Malerba noted the tribe’s ongoing language revitalization program. “We believe that these papers coming home is really Fidelia coming home to us,” said Lynn Malerba, chief of the Mohegan Tribe. Other diaries and documents were lost in a fire after her death. The papers include three diaries and a copy of the Lord’s Prayer in Mohegan – the only known surviving documents from Fielding. Tamar Evangelestia-Dougherty, associate university librarian, right, examines a bowl presented by Mohegan Tribal Historic Preservation Officer James Quinn in a ceremony at Cornell University transferring the Fidelia Fielding’s diaries.
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