Classical Vocal Training
Artistic Portfolio
Festivals & Opera Companies
As Soprano Soloist
Caramoor Festival
Chautauqua Opera
Children’s Free Opera of New York
Composers’ Showcase at Lincoln Center
Cremona Festival
Guelph Canada Spring Festival
Houston Grand Opera (Texas Opera Theater, Houston Opera Studio)
Kennedy Center Honors Program for CBS TV
Kentucky Opera
Lenox Arts Center
New York City Opera
Opera Theater of St. Louis
Orchestre de Toulouse
Palau de la Musica, Barcelona
Spoleto Festival dei Due Mondi)
St. Luke’s Chamber Ensemble
Tanglewood Berkshire Music Festival
The Dallas Opera
The Juilliard School American Opera Center
Wolf Trap Opera
Repertoire
As Soprano Soloist | Opera
Britten
The Turn of the Screw, Governess (Yale School of Music)
Britten
Peter Grimes, Ellen Orford (Yale Symphony, opening of the Andrew W. Mellon Centre for British Art)
Britten
The Rape of Lucretia, Lucia (Spoleto Festival dei Due Mondi)
Cavalli
L’Egisto, Goddess (Wolf Trap Opera)
Cavalli
Calisto, Goddess (Baroque Opera Company of New York)
Chabrier
Le Roi Malgre’ Lui (the Reluctant King), The Juilliard School American Opera Center
Copland
The Tender Land, Laurie (the Bronx Opera)
Debussy
La Chûte de la Maison Usher, Madeleine (World Premiere of re-constructed opera, Yale Symphony)
Donizetti
Don Pasquale, Norina (Texas Opera Theater)
Handel
Acis and Galatea, Galatea (Guelph Canada Spring Festival)
Haydn
L’infedeltá Delusa, l’Infedeltá (Children’s Free Opera of New York, St. Luke’s Chamber Ensemble)
Haydn
La Canterina, la Canterina (Children’s Free Opera of New York, St. Luke’s Chamber Ensemble)
Humperdinck
Hansel and Gretel, the Dew Fairy (Wolf Trap Opera)
Menotti
The Old Maid and the Thief (Wolf Trap Opera)
Monteverdi
Orfeo, Ninfa, Proserpina (The Dallas Opera)
Mozart
The Marriage of Figaro, the Countess (Yale School of Music)
Mozart
The Marriage of Figaro, Susanna (Texas Opera Theater)
Mozart
Bastien and Bastienna, Bastienna (Texas Opera Theater)
Mozart
The Magic Flute, Pappagena (Greenwich Street Opera, New York)
Offenbach
Robinson Crusoe, Edwige (Texas Opera Theater)
Poulenc
Les Mamelles de Tirésias, Tirésias (Yale Symphony)
Puccini
La Bohème, Musetta (New York City Opera, Opera Theater of St. Louis, Kentucky Opera)
Purcell
Dido and Aeneas, Dido (Chiaroscuro at the Palau de la Musica, Barcelona)
Ravel
L’Enfant et les Sortilèges, Le Princesse, Le Feu (Orchestre de Toulouse)
Thomson
The Mother of Us All, Angel More, Lillian Russell (Composer’s Showcase at Lincoln Center; Lenox Arts Centre; Kennedy Centre Honours programme)
Verdi
La Traviata, Violetta (Chautauqua Opera, Houston Opera Studio)
As Soprano Soloist | Oratorio
Bach
St. Matthew Passion, soprano soloist (California Bach Society, Toronto Symphony, Agrupacion Beethoven Santiago de Chile)
Carissimi
Jephthe, Figlia (Chiaroscuro, Cremona Festival)
Handel
Messiah, soprano soloist (National Arts Centre Orchestra of Ottawa, Houston Symphony)
Haydn
The Creation, Gabriel, Eve (the Festival Singers of Canada, Agrupacion Beethoven Santiago de Chile)
Purcell
The Tempest (Caramoor Festival, New York)
As Soprano Soloist | Chamber Music
Crumb
Madrigals, Books I & II (Tanglewood Berkshire Music Center)
Howarth
Howarth Folk Songs (London Mozart Players, Beccles Music Festival)
Mozart
Exsultate Jubilate (St. Luke’s Chamber Ensemble, New York)
Treacher
Trio for Four: The Making and the Taking in of Sound (St. George’s Brandon Hill Bristol with the Romantic Chamber Group of London (new commission by the artist, world premiere)
As Soprano Soloist | Symphonic
Britten
Spring Symphony, soprano soloist (Toronto Symphony)
As Soprano Soloist | Recital venues
Académie Maurice Ravel, St-Jean-de-Luz
American Women’s Club, London
Beccles Music Festival
Carnegie Recital Hall as winner of East & West Artists Competition USA
Club de Musique de Chambre, Luxembourg
Dartington International Summer School UK (5 concerts)
Delfina Gallery, London
Maryville College Recital Series USA
Norfolk & Suffolk Concert Venues (Haddiscoe Hall, Thetford Grammar School, Potton Hall, St. Peter’s Church, Westleton)
Thetford Grammar School Concert Series, Norfolk
Trinity University Recital Series USA
University College London
As Director
Dido and Aeneas (Purcell), Musica Insieme Panicale, L’Accademia degli Unisoni of Perugia, soloists Lingua e Lirica
Die Schuldigkeit des Ersten Gebots (Mozart), Trinity College Chapel Cambridge (14 singers)
Lingua e Lirica Mondavio, Chiesa di San Filippo Neri, Fossombrone (16 singers)
Lingua e Lirica Mondavio, Teatro Olimpico, Mondavio (16 singers)
Lingua e Lirica Perugia, L’Universitá per Stranieri, Aula Magna (16 singers), “Sheila Barnes e i Suoi Solisti”
Lingua e Lirica Perugia, Monastero di San Francesco del Monte (16 singers)
SPREZZATURA, St. Peter’s Church, Westleton: Soprano, alto and tenor trio singing Monteverdi and Alessandro Orologio in editions edited by the artist
As Vocal Consultant
Concert
La Nuova Musica, Holst Singers, London,
Opera Company
Singing Teacher/Vocal Coach advising “house singers”, Opera Kiel Germany
Opera Score
Willem Jeths, composer, “Ritratto”, the Netherlands Opera, consultant on vocal writing and text setting
Recording
La Nuova Musica, author of liner notes Caccini Le Nuove Musiche
Recording
La Nuova Musica Harmonia Mundi, Handel Dixit Dominus
Residency
La Nuova Musica, Aldeburgh Music, Monteverdi Vespers
As Masterclass Teacher
1992
Aston Magna Summer Festival, USA
1992-2003 (Summer)
Dartington International Summer School, Devon UK
1994
Deutsches Museum, Munich
1995
Tel Aviv Museum, Israel
1998
Den Haag, the Netherlands
1998-2008 (Annual Class)
Club de Musique de Chambre, Luxembourg
1999-2002 (Annual Class)
Rolduc, the Netherlands
2008, 2013-2017 (Annual Course)
Lingua e Lirica Perugia
2010
Beccles Music Festival, Suffolk
2012 & 2013
Haddiscoe Hall, Norfolk
2013
Trinity College, Cambridge
2017
MusicFest, Perugia