Innu soprano Elisabeth St-Gelais made her Toronto Summer Music debut on July 30 in recital with pianist Louise Pelletier. They presented a classic song program primarily consisting of 19th and early 20th-century German Lieder and French mélodies. Engagingly performed, the evening also laid bare the challenges and pitfalls of the recital format for a singer still in the early stages of her career. The opening set consisted of Brahms’ Zigeunerlieder, that strange amalgam of German song and translated Hungarian folk texts celebrating “Gypsy” or Romani life. The set’s glory is found in Brahms’ deliberate pointing of words against insistent csárdás…