Career

2010-2011
 
         Summer: Santa Fe Opera: diction coach for Life is a Dream.
         Fall/Winter/Spring: Metropolitan Opera: diction coach for Magic Flute and Nixon in China,
         adjudicator for St. Louis regional auditions.
        
2009-2010
 
         Summer: Santa Fe Opera: diction coach for The Letter, Apprentice Scenes direction.
         Fall/Winter/Spring: Metropolitan Opera: diction coach for Hansel and Gretel,
         adjucator for district auditions, Vancouver; Napa Valley Youth Symphony: Gala Benefit Concert;
          Opera Theatre of St. Louis: diction coach for A Little Night Music and The Marriage of Figaro.
2008-2009
         Summer: Mu Phi Epsilon National conference, Jacksonville, FL: invited speaker.
         Fall/Winter/Spring: Metropolitan Opera: diction coach for Doctor Atomic and Magic Flute,
         adjucator for regional auditions, Boston; Napa Valley Youth Symphony:
          Gala Benefit Concert; Opera Theatre of St. Louis: diction coach for Il Re Pastore and La Boheme.
2007-2008
         Fall/Winter/Spring: Notre Dame de Namur: Sondheim's Follies in Concert;
          Napa Valley Youth Symphony: Gala Benefit Concert; Opera Theatre of St. Louis:
          diction coach for Tales of Hoffmann and Una Cosa Rara.
2006-2007
         Fall/Winter/Spring: Metropolitan Opera: adjudicator of district auditions, Minneapolis;
          Opera Theatre of St. Louis: diction coach for Anna Karenina and The Mikado.
2005-2006
         Fall/Winter/Spring: Metropolitan Opera: adjudicator of district auditions, Minneapolis;
          Opera Theatre of St. Louis: diction coach for Barber of Seville and Jane Eyre.
2004-2005
 
         Winter/Spring: San José Wind Symphony: French arias. Santa Fe Symphony and Chorus:
          Beethoven Ninth Symphony. Sacramento Opera: Fledermaus.
          Opera Theatre of St. Louis: diction coach for Gloriana and Rigoletto.
 
2003-2004
 
          Summer: Santa Fe Opera: Intermezzo, ANNA.
          Fall: San José Chamber Orchestra: soloist.
 
2002-2003
 
         Winter/Spring: San José, Provo, Oklahoma City, Milwaukee, Chicago: World Premiere
          performances of Kenneth Frazelle's From the Song of Songs for Soprano and Piano,
          commissioned by the Barlow Endowment. Salt Lake City: soloist with Morman Tabernacle Choir.
         Recital at Notre Dame de Namur.
 
2001-2002
Summer:  Opera Theatre of St. Louis: Argento's Miss Havisham's Fire, AURELIA
HAVISHAM.
Fall/Winter/Spring: Opera Columbus:Rigoletto, GILDA. Musica Sacra: Messiah. SJSU
Scholarship Concert: Poulenc's Gloria. Recitals at SJSU. Stockton
Symphony: Carmina Burana. Santa Fe Symphony and Chorus: Carmina Burana.
2000-2001
Summer:  Utah Festival Opera: Gulio Cesare, CLEOPATRA.
1999-2000
    Summer:  Santa Fe Opera: Ariadne auf Naxos, ZERBINETTA.
    Fall/Winter/Spring: Florentine Opera: Massenet's Manon, MANON. Fresno Philharmonic:
    Gliere, Concerto for Coloratura Soprano, Rachmaninoff, Vocalise. John Downey Festival,
    St. John's Smith Sq., London: chamber music concert. Santa Fe Symphony: Haydn's Creation.
    South Valley Symphony, Gilroy, CA: aria evening. Recitals at San José State University,
    Sarasota FL and Los Gatos CA.
1998-99
    Summer:  San José Symphony: Orff Carmina Burana.Music from Angel Fire festival.
    Fall/Winter/Spring: Santa Fe Symphony: music of R. Strauss. Napa  Symphony:
    arias by Mozart,  Donizetti and Bellini. Santa Fe Symphony: Bach
    Christmas Oratorio.L'Opéra de Montréal Gala.  San José Symphony:
    Viennese program. Florentine Opera: Picture of Dorian Grey
    (Americam Premiere), SYBIL VANE. Masterworks Chorale (Illinois):
    Mozart Requiem, arias. Recitals at San José State University.
1997-98
    Summer: Anchorage Festival: Mendelssohn's Elijah. Sea Cliff Chamber Players.
    Bravo!Colorado and Music from Angel Fire festivals.
     Fall/Winter/Spring: New Orleans Opera: Magic Flute, QUEEN OF THE NIGHT.
    Florentine Opera, Abduction from the Seraglio, KONSTANZE. Opera/Columbus:
    Abduction from the Seraglio, KONSTANZE. Long Beach Symphony: Mozart
    Requiem.St. Louis Symphony: Messiah. Santa Fe Symphony: Bach Christmas
    Oratorio .San Antonio Symphony: Viennese program.Wooster Chamber Orchestra:
     concerts in Urbana, IL and  Chicago. Chattanooga Symphony: Mahler Symphony No.
    2. Lima Symphony Orchestra (Ohio). Recital at Utah State University (Logan).
1996-97
    Summer: Napa Symphony: Bernstein evening. Hampden/Sydney Chamber Music
    Festival. Recording: always it's spring (art songs by American composers) on VAI
    Winter/Spring: Cleveland Opera: Daughter of the Regiment, MARIE. English National
    Opera debut: Ariadne auf Naxos, ZERBINETTA. Virginia Symphony:Messiah.
    Wooster Symphony at the Kennedy Center (DC): Mozart:Exsultate, jubilate and
    Stravinsky: Anne Truelove's aria (Rake's Progress). Santa Fe Opera Benefit.
    L'Opéra de Montréal Benefit Gala. Recitals in IL. and NJ.
1995-96
    Summer: St. Louis Municipal Opera; Lehar's Merry Widow, VALENCIENNE.
    Bravo! Colorado and Music from Angel Fire festivals.
    Fall/Winter/Spring: Cleveland Opera: Magic Flute, QUEEN OF THE NIGHT;
    Turco in Italia, FIORILLA. Dallas Opera: Hansel and Gretel: SANDMAN and
    DEW FAIRY. Florentine Opera, Don Giovanni, ZERLINA. Wooster Symphony:
    Barber Knoxville: Summer of 1915. Gold Coast Chamber Music Festival.
    Garden City Chamber Music. Recitals in St. Louis, Milwaukee, and Appleton, WI.
1994-95
    Summer: Santa Fe Opera: R. Strauss: Intermezzo, ANNA.
    Fall/Winter: Metropolitan Opera and New York City Opera: Barber of Seville,
    ROSINA. Opera Theatre of St. Louis: Haydn's Armida, ZELMIRA and 20th
    Anniversary Gala concert. Madison Opera: Magic Flute, QUEEN OF THE NIGHT.
    Springfield (MA) Symphony: Carmina Burana. Benefit concerts with New Japan
    Philharmonic w. Seiji Ozawa, cond. in Kobe, Japan. Benefit concert for
    Champaign-Urbana Symphony.
1993-94
    Summer: Santa Fe Opera: Handel's Xerxes, ATALANTA; Richard Strauss'
    Capriccio,ITALIAN SINGER; Angel Fire Chamber Music Festival (New Mexico);
    Sea Cliff Chamber Players.
    Fall/Winter: New Orleans Opera: Gounod's Romeo et Juliette, JULIETTE; L'Opéra
    de Montréal: Daughter of the Regiment, MARIE. Florentine Opera (Milwaukee):
    Lucia di Lammermoor, LUCIA. Opera/Columbus: Strauss' Ariadne auf Naxos,
    ZERBINETTA. Dayton opera: Magic Flute, QUEEN OF THE NIGHT.
    Spingfield (IL) Symphony. Recital at University of Mass., Amherst.
    Recording: with David Jolley, horn: Schubert's Auf dem Strom and
    Strauss' Alpenhorn on Arabesque Records.
1992-93
    Summer: Bravo! Colorado Music Festival. Angel Fire Chamber Music Festival
    (New Mexico). SummerMusic '92 w. Rochester Philharmonic; solo recital for
    California State University Summer Arts Festival (Arcata, CA).
    Fall/Winter: Teatro de la Opera, San Juan, Puerto Rico: L'Elisir d'Amore,
    ADINA. Merkin Hall, New York: American premiere of Handel's Muzio,
    ORAZIO. New Orleans Opera: L'Elisir d'Amore, ADINA. Cleveland Opera:
    Cosi Fan Tutte, DESPINA. Opera/Columbus: Cosi Fan Tutte, DESPINA.
    Recitals in Munster, IN; Ithica, NY; Green Bay, WI. Recording: Handel's
    Muzio, Newport Classic label.
1991-92:
    Summer: Debut with Metropolitan Opera in the Parks series, as OSCAR in
    Un Ballo in Maschera. Santa Fe Opera: Die Schweigsame Frau, AMINTA.
    Bravo! Colorado Music Festival. Angel Fire Music Festival (New Mexico).
    Fall/Winter: Florentine Opera: Barber of Seville, ROSINA. New Orleans Opera:
    Barber of Seville. Metropolitan Opera: Barber of Seville. Cleveland Opera:
    Barber of Seville. Opera/Columbus- first performances of QUEEN OF THE NIGHT.
    Calgary Philharmonic: Carmina Burana. Opera Theatre of St. Louis: Turco in Italia,
    FIORILLA. Program with Vara Radio Symphony at Concertgebouw (Amsterdam).
    Messiah with Virginia Symphony (Norfolk). Solo recital at Rockefeller University.
1990-91
    Summer: Mann Center debut, Philadelphia Orchestra/Rudel: Viennese program.
    Sommerfest, Minnesota Orchestra/Slatkin: Viennese program.
    Fall/Winter: Anchorage Opera: Romeo and Juliet, JULIET. Ohio Chamber Orchestra,
    Cleveland. Merkin Hall, New York: American premiere of Handel's Siroe, LAODICE.
    Florentine Opera: Ariadne auf Naxos, ZERBINETTA. Dallas Opera: Tales of
    Hoffmann,OLYMPIA. Indianapolis Symphony: New Year's Eve Gala. Boston
    Lyric Opera: Ariadne auf Naxos, ZERBINETTA. Vienna Staatsoper: Ariadne auf
    Naxos,ZERBINETTA. Bach Society of St. Louis: Cantatas #55, #202.
    The Dessoff Choirs, New York: Mozart program. Wooster Syrnphony, OH: 75th
    Anniversary Gala.Quad-City Symphony, Davenport, IA. Recital in Naples, FL.
1989-90
    Summer: New York City Opera: Don Giovanni, ZERLINA (lst performances
    of the role in New York) with Sergiu Comissiona, cond. Mostly Mozart Festival:
    Apollo and Hyacinthe, K. 38 w. Gerald Schwarz, cond.
    Fall/Winter/Spring: Metropolitan Opera: Tales of Hoffmann, OLYMPIA,
    Abduction from the Seraglio, BLONDCHEN. New Orleans Opera: Daughter
    of the Regiment, MARIE. L'Opéra de Montréal debut: Abduction from the Seraglio,
    BLONDCHEN. Vienna State Opera: Ariadne auf Naxos, ZERBINETTA.
    New York Chamber Society (92nd St. Y): Beethoven, Complete Incidental
    Music to Goethe's "Egmont" Op. 84. St. Louis Symphony/Slatkin: Viennese Evening.
    Phoenix Symphony: Mozart Mass in C minor
1988-89
    Summer: Metropolitan Opera Tour of Japan: Tales of Hoffmann,OLYMPIA.
    (first visit to Orient). New York City Opera: The Barber of Seville, ROSINA;
    Lucia di Lammermoor, LUCIA.
    Fall/Winter/Spring: Metropolitan Opera: Die Fledernaus, ADELE. New York
    City Opera: Lucia di Lammermoor, LUCIA. Greater Miami and Baltimore Opera
    companies: Tales of Hoffmann, OLYMPIA. Orchestras of Spririgfield
    (Glière Concerto for Coloratura Soprano and Orchestra; Mahler 4th Sym.),
    Indianapolis (Romeo andJuliet arias). Recitals in Pittsburgh, PA; Galveston, TX;
    Madison, WI; Granville and Berea, OH. Recital in Anchorage, Alaska's new
    cultural center. Seattle Camerata: Schubert songs. New York recital debut
    as part of the "Great Singers" Series, Carnegie-Weill Hall.
1987-88
    Summer: Santa Fe Opera, John Crosby, cond.: Die Schweigsame Frau, AMINTA
    (first time). The Minnesota Opera with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra,
    Gustav Meier, cond. Ariadne auf Naxos, ZERBINETTA. Concert performance
    of Mozart's version of Handel's Asis and Galatea, GALATEA, Mostly Mozart Festival,
    Gerarld Schwarz, cond.
    Fall/Winter/Spring: Vienna State Opera debut September 25: Ariadne auf Naxos,
    ZERBINETTA. Metropolitan Opera debut November 26: Abduction from the
    Seraglio, BLONDCHEN, including national broadcast. Cleveland Opera: The
    Marriage of Figaro, SUSANNA. Florentine Opera of Milwaukee: The Ballad of
    Baby Doe, BABY DOE. Kansas City Philharmonic City Philhannonic. Recitals at
    the Parkland College, IL and at the College of Wooster, OH. Recreation of concert
    given by Jenny Lind in Northampton, MA in 1852
1986-87
    Summer: New York City Opera: Canidide, CUNEGONDE; The Marriage of Figaro,
    SUSANNA, Hugh Wolff cond.; Cendrillon, LA FEE, Mario Bernardi cond.; Cincinnati
    Opera: Der Rosenkavalier, SOPHIE, Julius Rudel cond. Mostly Mozart Festival:
    Mozart concert aria, Gerald Schwarz cond. Chamber Music Society of Lincoln
    Center: Debussysongs w. Charles Wadsworth. Grant Park, Chicago, Mozart:
    Exsultate, jubilate and Strauss: Zerbinetta's Aria (Ariadne auf Naxos).
    Fall/Winter/Spring: New York City Opera: The Marriage of Figaro, SUSANNA;
    Cendrillon, LA FEE; Candide, CUNEGONDE including "Live from Lincoln Center"
    National Broadcast. Cleveland Opera: Lucia di Lammermoor, LUCIA. Dayton
    Philharmonic: Mozart and Donizetti arias. NewJersey Symphony Orchestra: Mozart
    and Strauss arias, Hugh Wolff, cond. Pro Musica Chamber Orchestra, Columbus, OH:
    Orfeo ed Euridice, AMOR, Timothy Russell, cond. Guest artist w. Minneapolis Artists
    Ensemble. Brooklyn Philharmonic: Baroque arias, Lukas Foss, cond. Radio
    Kamerorkest at Amsterdam's Concertgebouw: Mozart's Mitridate, ASPASIA
1985-86
    Summer: Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra: Handel and Purcell arias w.
    Wynton Marsalis, Raymond Leppard, cond. New York City Opera: The
    Daughter of the Regiment, MARIE. Tanglewood: Orff Carmina Burana,
    Seiji Ozawa, cond.
    Fall/Winter/Spring: New York City Opera: Daughter of the Regiment,
    MARIE. National Arts Centre Orchestra, Ottawa: Mozart Coronation Mass.
    San Francisco Opera, Sir John Pritchard, cond.: Un Ballo in Maschera, OSCAR.
    Washington Opera: Daughter of the Regiment, MARIE. Houston Grand Opera:
    Le Comte Ory, COUNTESS ADELE; Ariadne auf Naxos, ZERBINETTA,
    Julius Rudel, cond. Houston Symphony: Orff Carmina Burana, cond. by
    Sergiu Comissiona. "Live from Wolf Trap" with the New Sousa Band:
    two arias aired nationally on PBS. Solo recital at Northwestern University, IL.
    Recording: Candide, CUNEGONDA, New York City Opera, New World Records label.
    Sondheim's Follies w. New York Philharmonic (recorded by RCA).
1984-85
    Summer: La Scala debut: Lucio Silla, GIUNIA, Sylvain Cambreling, cond.,
    Patrice Chereau, Dir. Santa Fe Opera debut: Il Matrimonio Segreto,
    CAROLINA, Kenneth Montgomery, cond., Renato Cappechi, dir. Cleveland
    Orchestra at Blossom Center: Candide, CUNEGONDE.
    Fall/Winter/Spring: New York City Opera: The Rake's Progress, ANNE.
    Theatre des Amandiers, Nanterre, France: Lucio Silla, GIUNIA. New Orleans
    Opera: Hansel & Gretel, GRETEL. Houston Grand Opera: The Magic Flute,
    PAMINA. German debut at Hamburg State Opera: Ariadne auf Naxos,
    ZERBINETTA; and Arabella, FIAKERMILLI. Lucio Silla w. Kamerorkest at
    Concertgebouw, Kenneth Montgomery cond. Ariodante, DALINDA at
    Carnegie Hall under Raymond Leppard. Chicago Symphony: Bach Cantata
    No. 51 and Berg's Lulu Suite, cond. by Erich Leinsdorf. Chamber Orchestra
    of Oklahoma City: Mozart Exsultate, jubilate and Knoxville: Summer of 1915.
    Solo recitals at University of Illinois and Temple University.
1983-84
    Summer: Vienna Festival: Der Schauspieldirektor, MADAME HERZ.
    Des Moines Metro Opera: Daughter of the Regiment, MARIE. Los Angeles
    Philharmonic at Hollywood Bowl: Orff Carmina Burana, cond. by Michael
    Tilson Thomas. Minnesota Orchestra Sommerfest, Leonard Slatkin, cond.
    Boston Symphony Orchestra at Tanglewood: Orfeo ed Euridice, AMOR,
    cond. by Seiji Ozawa. Edinburgh Festival w. Opera Theatre of St. Louis:
    Mozart and Bernstein arias. Richard Tucker Career Grant.
    Fall/Winter/Spring: New York City Opera: Alcina, MORGANA, led by
    Raymond Leppard; Cendrillon, LA FEE. Houston Grand Opera: Candide,
    CUNEGONDE. Tulsa Opera: Lucia di Lammermoor, LUCIA, cond. by
    Anton Coppola. Milwaukee Symphony: Mozart Mass in c minor, Lukas Foss
    cond. Texas Chamber Orchestra: Pergolesi and Mozart arias, cond. by
    Sergiu Luca. St. Louis Symphony: Der Rosenkavalier, SOPHIE,
    Erich Leinsdorf cond. Minneapolis Artists Ensemble at St. Lawrence Center,
    Toronto: works by Shostakovich, Schubert and Deak. Los Angeles
    Philharmonic: Bach Cantata No. 51, Debussy La Damoiselle èlue,
    Erich Leinsdorf cond. Jacksonville Symphony: Mahler 4th Symphony,
    Lucia and Norina arias. Florida Chamber Orchestra: Bach Cantata No. 51,
    Mozart concert arias. St. Paul Chamber Orchestra: Mozart Requiem,
    Pinchas Zukerman, cond. Carnegie Hall debut w. Milwaukee Symphony,
    Mozart Mass in c minor, Lukas Foss cond. Solo recitals at University of
    Tennessee, Knoxville; Pabst Theatre, Milwaukee; in Georgia, Iowa,
    Illinois. Duo recital w. Michael Ballam in San Antonio.
1982-83
    Summer: Carnegie Hall Seranades Festival. National Arts Centre orchestra,
    Ottawa, led by M. Bernardi: Abduction from the Seraglio, BLONDCHEN,
    filmed for CBC Television. Mostly Mozart Festival: Bach Cantata No. 51,
    Mozart concert aria, Pincas Zuckerman, cond. Minnesota Orchestra
    Sommerfest: chamber music and concert version of Die Fledermaus, ADELE.
    Fall/Winter/Spring: New York City Opera debut: Candide, CUNEGONDE,
    cond. by John Mauceri, dir. by Hal Prince. Candide, CUNEGONDE, with
    NYCO in Los Angeles. San Francisco Symphony: Viennese evening with
    Willi Boskovsky, cond. Houston Grand Opera: Daughter of the Regiment,
    MARIE; Rigoletto, GILDA; The Tales of Hoffmann, OLYMPIA. Cleveland
    Opera: Falstaff, NANETTA. Minneapolis Artists Ensemble, works by
    Shostakovich, Schubert, Deak. Solo recitals in Ohio, Wisconsin, Illinois.
    Duo recital w. Michael Ballam in Pennsylvania.
1981-82
    Summer: Colorado Festival, Boulder: Mozart arias. San Francisco Opera:
    L'Incoronazione di Poppea, AMOR and DAMIGELLA. Minnesota Orchestra
    Sommerfest: Viennese evening. Los Angeles Philharmonic at Hollywood
    Bowl: Orff Carmina Burana, Jesus Lopez Cobos, cond.
    Fall/Winter/Spring: Dayton Opera: Rigoletto, GILDA. Kentucky Opera:
    Ariadne auf Naxos, ZERBINETTA. Minnesota Opera: Barber of Seville,
    ROSINA. Jewish Opera at the Y: world premiere of Bruce Adolphe's
    Mikhoels the Wise, SINCHA. St. Paul Chamber Orchestra: five city tour
    including NY (Avery Fisher Hall), Boston and Montreal, w.Pinchas
    Zuckerman, cond. Tucson Symphony: Strauss lieder and Mozart concert
    arias. Orchestra and Chorus of St. Louis: Roderigoand Mozart. St. Paul
    Chamber Orchestra: Bach Cantata Non sa che sia dolore. Arkansas
    Symphony: joint concert w. Michael Ballam. Solo recital at Wichita
    State University. Joint recital w. Michael Ballam in Alabama.
1980-81
    Summer: Wolf Trap Summer Festival: Die Fledermaus, ADELE, Franz Allers,
    cond. Los Angeles Philharmonic at Hollywood Bowl Candide excerpts,
    CUNEGONDE. Solo recital, University of Kansas.
    Fall/Winter/Spring: San Francisco Opera debut: Arabella, FIAKERMILLI;
    Don Pasquale, NORINA. Houston Grand Opera: Un Ballo in Maschera,
    OSCAR. Tulsa Opera: Daughter of the Regiment, MARIE. Minnesota
    Orchestra: Handel Messiah. National Arts Centre Orchestra, Ottawa:
    Beatrice et Bénédict, HERO. Milwaukee Symphony: Belshazzar, NITOCRIS,
    w. Sir Charles Mackerras, cond.
1979-80
    Summer: Opera Theatre of St Louis: Ariadne auf Naxos, ZERBINETTA,
    Leonard Slatkin, cond. and Gianni Schicchi, LAURETTA. Kennedy Center
    Summer Opera: Christopher Columbus, GRETEL.
    Fall/Winter/Spring: Chicago Lyric Opera debut: The Love for Three Oranges,
    NINETTA, George Pretre, cond. Opera Omaha: Die Fledermaus, ADELE.
    Opera Company of Philadelphia: Rumpelstiltskin, AURELIA. Arizona Opera:
    Die Fledermaus, ADELE. Minnesota Opera: Pirates of Penzance, MABEL.
    Opera Theatre of St. Louis: Falstaff, NANETTA . Houston Symphony:
    Handel Messiah. Martha Baird Rockefeller Grant.
1978-79
    Summer: Lake George Opera Festival: The Marriage of Figaro,SUSANNA;
    The Mikado, YUM-YUM.
    Fall/Winter/Spring: Houston Grand Opera: Der Rosenkavalier, SOPHIE.
    Texas Opera Theater: Cosi fan Tutte, DESPINA, and Hansel and Gretel,
    GRETEL. Houston Opera Studio: The Rape of Lucretia, LUCIA.
    St. Paul Chamber Orchestra: Barber Knoxville: Summer of 1915.
    Awarded National Opera Institute Grant.
1978-79
    Summer: Lake George Opera Festival: Don Pasquale, NORINA.
    Fall/Winter/Spring: Houston Grand Opera: Arabella, ZDENKA;
    Falstaff, NANETTA. Opera Theatre of St. Louis: Tree of Chastity
    by Martin y Soler.