Professional Women Singers Association
RESUME 2003
ROLES
OPERA
Acuzena Il Trovatore * Adele Die Fledermaus * Albine Thais * Amneris Aida * Anima Rappresentatione di Anima e di Corpo * Augusta The Ballad of Baby Doe * Aunt Julia The Dead * Baba The Rake's Progress * Baby Doe Ballad of Baby Doe * Berginella La Perichole * Bluhmenmädchen Parsifal * Brünnhilde Götterdämmerung and Die Walküre * Carmen Carmen * Charlotte Werther * Cio-Cio San Madama Butterfly * Countess Almaviva Le Nozze di Figaro * Dalila Samson et Dalila * Dama Macbeth * Despina Così fan tutte * Donna Anna and Donna Elvira Don Giovanni * Dorabella Così fan tutte * Echo Ariadne auf Naxos * Elvira Ernani * Emilia Otello * Emma Emma * Erda Das Rheingold * Fiakermili Arabella * First Norn Die Götterdämmerung * Flora La Traviata * Fricka Das Rheingold * Frugola Il Tabarro * Gerhilde Die Walküre * Giglietta Isabeau * Gilda Rigoletto * Hanna Glawari The Merry Widow * Leonore Il Trovatore * Lisette La Rondine * Lucia Lucia di Lammermoor * Lucy The Telephone * Mabel Pirates of Penzance * Madame Goldentrill The Impresario * Maddelena Rigoletto * Mrs. Malins The Dead * Manon Manon * Marcellina Le Nozze di Figaro * Marschallin Der Rosenkavalier * Maurya Synge, Riders to the Sea * Micaela Carmen * Miss Todd The Old Maid and the Thief * Monica The Medium * Musetta La Bohème * Norina Don Pasquale * Orlovsky Die Fledermaus * Ortlinde Die Walküre * Oscar Un Ballo in Maschera * Papagena Die Zauberflöte * La Principessa Suor Angelica * Queen of Hearts Alice in Analysis * Rosalinda Die Fledermaus * Rosina Il Barbiere di Siviglia * Santuzza Cavalleria Rusticana * Second Lady Die Zauberflöte * Sophia Hawthorne American Lit * Sophie Werther * Susanna Le Nozze di Figaro * Suzuki Madama Butterfly * Third Lady Die Zauberflöte * Tosca Tosca * Vera Incident at St Bajo * Violetta La Traviata * White Queen Alice in Analysis * Xanthe Die Liebe der Danae * Zweite Magd Elektra
OPERETTA AND MUSICAL THEATER
Adelaide Guys and Dolls * The Duchess of Plaza Toro The Gondoliers * Ethel Levy George M * Hodel Fiddler on the Roof * Housekeeper Man of La Mancha * Josephine HMS Pinafore * Katisha The Mikado * Mabel Pirates of Penzance * Madame Pavlenko A Day in Hollywood, A Night in the Ukraine * Mother Abbess Sound of Music * Susie Babes in Arms * Appearances in Broadcast from Bethlehem * Gershwins! * Weill: Berlin to Broadway
ORATORIO AND SONG
Handel Alexander's Feast * Brahms Alto Rhapsody * Vierne Les Angélus * Handel Athalia * Bach B minor Mass * Villa-Lobos Bachianas Brasilieras * Bach Cantatas * Handel The Choice of Hercules * Bach Christmas Oratorio * Saint-Saens Christmas Oratorio * Haydn Creation * Janacek The Diary of One Who Vanished * Mendelssohn Elijah * Mozart Exultate, jubilate * Copland In the Beginning * Handel Judas Maccabeus * Honegger King David * Barber Knoxville, Summer of 1915 * Haydn Lord Nelson Mass * Schubert Mass in C, Op. 48 * Rheinberger Mass in G * Handel Messiah * Mozart Missa Brevis in C * Zelenaia Mother's Lamentations * Requiems by Brahms, Duruflé, Faure, Verdi, Mozart, and Rutter * Rossini Petite Messe Solenelle * Stravinsky Requiem Canticles * Rossini Stabat Mater * Mahler Symphony #4 * Gerard UN Resolution
CHORUS
Cavalleria Rusticana Mascagni * Ceremony of Carols Britten * The Diary of One Who Vanished Janacek * I Pagliacci Leoncavallo * Requiem Brahms * L'Roi Arthus Chausson * Tartuffe Mechem * Der Zwerg Zemlinsky
COMPANIES
Actors Theatre of Nantucket * Amarillo Opera * Artists of the New Millenium * Austin Lyric Opera * La Bella Voce * Berkeley Repertory Company * Berkshire Public Theater * Brooklyn Opera Society * Crystal Opera * Dallas Lyric Opera * Des Moines Metro Opera * Discovery Opera * English National Opera * Garden State Opera * Genesis Opera * Harrisburg Opera * Heidelberg Opera * Henry Street Opera * Hudson Opera Theatre * Hudson Valley Opera Fest * Inwood Opera * Jade Opera * Jersey Shore Arts Center * KJK Productions * Liederkranz * Lyric Opera of Cleveland * Lyric Opera of Kansas City * Manhattan Opera Repertory Theater * Merrimack Lyric Opera * Natchez Opera Festival * New Jersey State Opera * New Jersey Verismo Opera * New Amsterdam Opera * New England Lyric Operetta * New Rochelle Opera * New York Grand Opera * New York Opera Productions * Opera of the Hamptons * Opera Orchestra of New York * Opera Theater of Philadelphia * Operesque Classical Concerts * La Piccola Opera * Pioneer Theater * Regina Opera * Berkshire Opera * Riverside Opera Ensemble * Rochester Opera Theater * San Diego Opera * San Francisco Opera * Southwest Virginia Opera * State Repertory Opera (NJ) * Taconic Opera Company * Teatro Felice * Treasure Coast Opera * Troupers Light Opera * Vermont Opera Theater * Virginia Opera * Wagner Project * Wagner Theatre Institute * West Coast Opera * Wiener Kammeroper
CHORAL AND CHAMBER GROUPS
Bahamas Music Society * Canterbury Choral Society * Choral Symphony Society * Concert Chorale of New York * Healing Rain Group * Mannes Bach 2000 * Music Before 1800 * New York Cantata Singers * New York Choral Artists * New York Chorale * New York Choral Society * San Francisco Choral Society
ORCHESTRAS
American Symphony Orchestra * Bourgas Philharmonic * Brooklyn Philharmonia * Cologne Chamber Orchestra * Hessissiche-Rundfunk Orchestra * London Sinfonietta * New England Symphonic Ensemble * New York Contemporary Music Band * New York Philharmonic * One World Symphony * Orchestra of St Luke's * Skitch Henderson's NY Pops Orchestra * The Sound Symphony * Southfield Symphony Orchestra * Vienna Philharmonic * Wagner Concert Orchestra * Wagner Festival Orchestra * West Islip Philharmonic
FESTIVALS
24/7 Brooklyn Jazz Festival * Bach to Bartok International Music Festival * Boston Early Music Festival * Colorado Gilbert and Sullivan Festival * From the Homeland--a Festival of Czech Music (Lincoln Center) * International Vocal Arts Institute (Portland) * Long Island Summer Concert Series * Massachusetts International Festival of the Arts * Ragusa Music Festival * Trinity Wall Street Noon Day Concerts
CONCERT AND RECITAL SERIES
Choral Masterworks Series (Purchase College Performing Arts Center) * Goliard Concerts * Greenwich House Arts, North River Music Series * Jean Cocteau Concert Series * Music Before 1800 * Plantation Recital Series (Natchez Opera Festival)
VENUES
Academy of Music Philadelphia * Avery Fisher Hall * Borden Auditorium * Carnegie Hall * Cathedral of Berne * Christ and St. Stephens Church * Danny Kaye Playhouse * Deutsches Haus at Columbia Univ * La Fenice * Greenwich House * John Jay Theatre * Jersey Shore Arts Center * Lincoln Center * Mann Performing Arts Center * Merkin Hall * Metropolitan Museum of Art * New York Public Library * Palazzo Tozzoni * Purchase College Performing Arts Center * Richard Tauber Institute * Rich Forum * Seagle Colony * Spanish Institute * Teatro dell'Opera Rome * Teatro Lirico Caligari * Union Theological Seminary * Variety Arts Theatre * Weill Hall * YM/WHA Central Queens * Weymouth Center for the Arts and Humanities Syracuse Univ
CONDUCTORS
Maurizio Barbacini * Louise Basbas * Massimo de Bernard * Leon Botstein * Pierre Boulez * Sir Colin Davis * Gabriele Ferro * Joseph Flummerfelt * David Gilbert * Jane Glover * Neal Goren * Paul Hostetter * Oliver Knussen * David Labovitz * Jacques Lacombe * Vincent La Selva * Henry Lewis * Stephen Lord * Kurt Masur * Nathan Matthews * Jay Meetze * Riccardo Muti * Charles Prince * Eve Queler * Corrado Rovaris * Patricia Sage * Francesco Santelli * Dorothy Savitch * Michel Singer * Dan Winston Vogel * Gary Thor Wedow * Richard Westenburg * Desmond Wright * Pablo Zinger
DIRECTORS
Mark Astafan * Kay Castaldo * Dorothy Danner * F. Paul Driscoll * Robert Driver * David Edwards * Cristoph Grosser * Deborah Karner * Eddie Lew * Stephen Pickover * Pier Luigi Pizzi * Evan Yinoulis
UNUSUAL COMPOSERS
Bartolomeo Barbarino * James Bassi * Murray Boren * Emilio de' Cavalieri * Ernest Chausson * Neil Farrell * Carlisle Floyd * Charley Gerard * Miriam Gideon * Kirke Mechem * Steven Pearlston * Frederick Piket * Andre Previn * William Russo * Nancy Wertsch * Margarita Zelenaia
ORIGINAL RECITALS
Beautiful Dreamer (Stephen Foster and Franz Schubert) * Broadcast from Bethlehem (Christmas play with music) * Death by Chocolate (Songs of Death and Food) * From Rossini to Puccini: Friends and Foes * Forever (Enduring Poems in American Song) * Dog in the Quicksand (Music of Maury Yeston) * The Girl Who Came to Dinner (Songs of Noel Coward) * Innocent Depravity * Kurt Bernheim Memorial Lieder Recital * Ladies Of The Day And Night * Legendary Romances, Toujours L'Amour (French Love Songs) * A Night in Venice (Rossini and Bellini Art Songs) * Reaching Ecstasy Through Chant * Sephardic Journey * A Victorian Evening of Romance Poetry and Song * Zarzuela Concert
RECORDINGS, TV AND RADIO BROADCASTS
New York Philharmonic Brahms Requiem 9/11 Benefit * New York Philharmonic PBS and NPR broadcasts * Music and Worship, a Hong Kong Television radio documentary broadcast * True Voice
AWARDS
Center for Contemporary Opera Semifinalist * Classical Productions Competition Finalist * Gerda Lissner Foundation Encouragement Award * International Enrico Caruso Voice Competition Finalist * Luciano Pavarotti International Voice Competition Winner * McAlister Awards for Opera Competition Finalist
PRAISE
Publications such as:
Brooklyn Spectator * Danbury News-Times * The Denver Post * Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung * Nantucket Inquirer & Mirror * Natchez Democrat * Newark Star-Ledger * New York Times * North County News * Opera News * Richmond Times-Dispatch * San Francisco Chronicle * Savoynet
SAID:
"Outstanding" * "commanding" * "impressive" * "extremely affecting heartfelt portrayal" * "hilarious" * "totally absorbing" * "commanding presence and a rich and confident voice" * "first rate voice" * "exceptional acting" * "assured vocal technique and stage-craft to match" * "excellent" * "particularly entertaining and droll" * "just the right wild energy" * "her portrayal was imperious and resourceful" * "beautifully expressive acting" * "bewitching" * "thrilling" * "wonderfully secure in every aspect of her singing" * "filled the house with thrilling sound" * "always fresh and dramatically brilliant" * "a magnificent voice of exceptional power and warmth" * "sings with enormous emotional commitment" * "the power and sensitivity is felt by all in attendance" * "sings superbly" * "sumptuous mezzo-soprano voice, equally adept in both comic and tragic roles" * "touching" * "hilarious" * "crucial and dramatic"
MANAGEMENT
Bob Hinkle * Ludwig Brunner * Naomi Artist Management
UNIONS
AEA * AGMA * Equity * SAG
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
Bel Canto Institute * Caramoor Young Artist Program * Columbia University * Eastman School of Music * Eugene O'Neill Theater Center * Manhattan School of Music * Vassar College * University of Georgia * University of Texas at Austin
