Joining the roster of the Metropolitan Opera in 2008, Ms. Rindzuner will cover the role of Nedda. Also in the 2008 season, Ms. Rindzuner will sing with the New York City Ballet in London, and return to the Di Capo Theatre to sing her first Minnie in La Fanciulla del West. The 2007 Ms.
Sopranos at Encompass Arts
The versatile American singer Laura Pedersen brings to opera houses and to concert halls, an exciting lyric soprano voice, beauty and a rare ability to make each role come alive on stage. In the 2008 season, Ms. Perdersen will sing Musetta in La Boheme with Opera Cleveland and her first Antonia in Les Contes Hoffmann with the Indianapolis Opera.
This September Melissa Zapin sings the Countess in Le Nozze Di Figaro in Connecticut.
Cheryl Studer’s startling and brilliant career began at a very early age. After studying voice during high school and college, her promising talent caught Leonard Bernstein’s attention; he gave her full scholarships to the Berkshire Music Center at Tanglewood, where she studied with Phyllis Curtin. She debuted at Tanglewood in 1976 in Bach’s _St.
Ms. Vroman starred for several years on Broadway as Christine Daae in The Phantom of the Opera. As Christine, she garnered Theatre Critic’s awards for the role in a record breaking run in San Francisco, and did a return engagement at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles. Recently, Ms. Vroman starred as Rosabella in The Most Happy Fella, making her New York City Opera debut with Paul Sorvino in the title role. Her Broadway debut was in Aspects of Love, and she is the first to play both Fantine and Cosette in Les Miserables. For PBS she was featured with Colm Wilkinson and Michael Ball in Cameron Mackintosh’s Hey, Mr. Producer! at the Lyceum Theatre in London, a Royal Gala attended by Queen Elizabeth, and sang the role of Johanna in the San Francisco Symphony’s Emmy award winnng Sweeney Todd in Concert, with Patti Lupone and George Hearn.