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Soprano Corinne Winters, originally
from Frederick, MD, has completed a Master of Music degree in
vocal performance from the Peabody Conservatory, having recently
obtained her Bachelor’s degree magna cum laude from Towson
University. Ms. Winters is a third year Resident Artist at the
prestigious Academy of Vocal Arts in Philadelphia, PA, where she
studies with Ruth Golden. So far at AVA, Corinne has performed
Nannetta in Falstaff, Despina in Così fan
tutte, Monica in Respighi's La Fiamma, and Norina
in Don Pasquale. With the Opera Theater of St. Louis,
Corinne perfomed the Second Gossip and covered Rosina in John
Corgliano's The Ghosts of Versailles. Upcoming roles
include a return to Opera theatre of St. Louis for Mrs. Anderssen
in Sondheim's A Little Night Music and Countess (cover)
in The Marriage of Figaro, the title role in Lehar's Giuditta with
Concert Operetta Theatre, and Mimì (cover) in Puccini’s La
Bohème with Crested Butte Music Festival. Corinne
also covered Mimì at Lake George Opera, in addition to
performing Baroness Gondremarck in Offenbach’s La Vie
Parisienne. Other recent roles include Contessa Almaviva
in Le nozze di Figaro with the Oberlin in Italy program,
Antonia in Les contes d’Hoffmann and Pamina in Papageno! (an
outreach translation of Mozart’s The Magic Flute)
with Peabody Opera, Laetitia in The Old Maid and the
Thief and Ms. Segstrom in A Little Night Music with Towson
University, and the title role in Seymour Barab’s children’s
opera, Little Red Riding Hood at Strathmore Hall.
Equally at home in concert repertoire, Corinne has sung the soprano
solos in Mendelssohn's Elijah, Handel’s Messiah,
Vivaldi’s Gloria, Beethoven’s Mass in C,
and the Bach messa in b-minor. Ms. Winters made her European
debut in 2005 with the American Institute of Musical Studies in
Graz, Austria. There, she performed on orchestral operetta concerts,
and was chosen for a six-member musical theatre touring cabaret
entitled “The Hundredth Anniversary Cabaret.” In addition
to receiving the Anita Erdman Award in Opera and Peabody Merit Scholarship
from Peabody Conservatory, Corinne has won prizes in the Metropolitan
Opera National Council Auditions (National Semifinalist,1st place
New England Region), George London (honorable mention), Mario Lanza,
Kennett Symphony, Annapolis Opera, and Florida Grand Opera competitions,
was a US representative in the Pavarotti International Voice Competition
in Modena, Italy, and was nominated for a Sara Tucker Grant in 2008
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Lyric Coloratura Soprano Megan Monaghan was
recently hailed by Opera News as "...A voice of pure silver,
easily negotiating coloratura flights of fancy with exquisite
musicianship..." for her role of Gilda in Dayton Opera’s
production of Rigoletto. Performances during
the 2006-2007 season included Mabel in Glimmerglass Opera's The
Pirates of Penzance, Juliette in both Anchorage Opera
and Wichita Grand Opera's Roméo et Juliette,
and Gilda in Rigoletto with both Madison Opera and
Bob Jones University Opera. Performances during the
2007-2008 season included Euridice in L'Orfeo with
Glimmerglass Opera, Musetta in Opera Pacific's La Bohème, Ah-Joe
(c) in Leoni’s L’Oracolo at Lincoln Center’s
Avery Fisher Hall with Teatro Grattacielo, as well as a recording
of Lori Laitman’s new opera, The Scarlet Letter, with
the composer. In addition, Ms. Monaghan’s 2007-2008
concert highlights included a recital, The Music of George
Crumb, in collaboration with the composer and solo performances
with the OC Pops. Upcoming performances include Hanna
Glawari in Dayton Opera’s production of The Merry
Widow, Donna Elvira in Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra’s Don
Giovanni, Rosina in Il barbiere di Siviglia with
Intermountain Opera, Stella in Teatro Grattacielo’s I
Gioielli Della Madonna, and Gilda in Nashville Opera’s
production of Rigoletto. Upcoming Concert work includes
featured performances on the Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra’s
upcoming Gershwin Gala, Teatro Grattacielo’s Evening
of Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, Concert Operetta
Theatre’s The Music of the American Operetta, Annapolis
Opera’s Opera Lite, Vox Amadeus Orchestra’s Mozart
Gala including the Missa in C Minor and Le
nozze di Figaro Highlights at the Kimmel Center, as well
as recitals with her voice and guitar/lute duo, Due Colori.
Performances in the 2005-2006 season included Micaëla
in Carmen with Dayton Opera, Floriana in Zazà at
Alice Tully Hall Lincoln Center, Papagena in Die Zauberflöte with
Madison Opera, Gilda (c) in Rigoletto with Florida
Grand Opera, Soloist in Symphony in the Cities with
Pacific Symphony, and Soloist in A Night of Berstein with
Madison Symphony. Ms. Monaghan’s engagements during
the 2004-2005 season included Cunegonde in Candide at
the Teatro Argentina, Rome, Clomiri in Handel’s Imeneo at
Glimmerglass Opera, Barbarina and Susanna (c) in Le nozze
di Figaro with Opera Pacific, Gilda in Rigoletto with
both Dayton Opera and Eugene Opera and Soloist in Belle
Voci Concert with Eugene Orchestra. In addition, Megan
also recorded Maestro Lorin Maazel’s new opera 1984 with
the conductor before its’ premiere at Covent Garden.
Ms. Monaghan has received rave reviews for her interpretations
of other lyric-coloratura roles including Lucia in Rape
of Lucretia, Gilda in Rigoletto, Cunegonde in Candide, Musetta
in La Bohème, Micaëla in Carmen,
Lauretta in Gianni Schicchi, Juliette in Roméo
et Juliette, Euridice in L’Orfeo,Abigail
and Mary Warren in The Crucible, Floriana in Zazà,
Eve in Eve’s Odd’s, Clomiri in Imeneo,
Mabel in The Pirates of Penzance, and Pasha in Mavra. She
has performed at leading opera companies throughout the United
States and Europe including Cincinnati Opera, Opera Pacific,
Madison Opera, Wichita Grand Opera, Opera Theatre of Lucca,
Dayton Opera, Glimmerglass Opera, Eugene Opera, Festival Euro
Mediterraneo, Anchorage Opera, and Lyric Opera Cleveland.
Ms. Monaghan has been a featured soloist with Dayton Philharmonic,
Columbus Symphony, Eugene Orchestra, Opera Pacific Symphony,
Madison Symphony, and Pacific Symphony Orchestra. Recent
performances include a Soloist in Belle Voci Concert with
Eugene Orchestra, a Soloist in A Night of Bernstein with
Madison Symphony as well as roles such as Adele in a concert
version of Die Fledermaus, and Pamina in Die Zauberflöte. Other
notable performances include a concert at the White House and
singing the role of Musetta in a special performance of La
Bohème held at the historical home of Giacomo Puccini
in Lucca, Italy.
Ms. Monaghan has been awarded first place honors in such solo
competitions as the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions
of both the S. Ohio and S. California districts, Agnes Fowler
Competition and the Klose-Seybold Opera Competition. She
was nominated by Glimmerglass Opera to be the 2004 recipient
of the Richard F. Gold Career Grant. Megan Monaghan is
a master’s graduate of the University of Cincinnati’s
College-Conservatory of Music, where she studied with Barbara
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Baritone Daniel Collins has a “deep,
rich voice” building his path for a long standing operatic
career. Mr. Collins received his Bachelor’s degree in
Vocal Performance from the University of North Texas where
he performed multiple operatic roles. Papageno was the first
of these roles which Daniel repeated with El Paso Opera, the
Louisville Ballet and Summer Opera Theater in Washington, DC.
Tim Page, with The Washington Post, described Mr.
Collins as a “funny, exuberant and enormously likable” Papageno
during Summer Opera Theater’s 2006 performance of Die
Zauberflöte. In the fall of 2005, the Post praised
Mr. Collins in the Opera Theatre of Northern Virginia’s Barber
of Seville as a “bright and bouncy” Figaro
who delivered his lines with “aplomb.” Additional
highlights from Daniel’s emerging career also include
Figaro in The Marriage of Figaro, Masetto, Sharpless,
Escamillo, Sid, Dandini and Bottom. Mr. Collins has sung at
the Kennedy Center, the Meyerson Center in Dallas, the French
Arts Alliance in New York City, the President’s Church
of St. John’s Episcopal and the White House. In the 2007-2008
season, Daniel was praised by the Opera News Review Online
for his “haughty” Mandarin in Kentucky Opera’s Turandot.
While a member of the Kentucky Opera Studio Program, Mr. Collins
also sang Melchior in Amahl and the Night Visitors as
well as the 1st Officer, 2nd Commissioner and Jailor, in Dialogues
of the Carmelites, with uniquely menacing personalities.
Daniel has recently sung with Washington National Opera, Portland
Opera, Opera Southwest, Fort Worth Opera, Concert Royal, Ashlawn
Highland Festival, Belcantanti Opera and Amarillo Opera. Mr.
Collins currently makes his home in Louisville, KY. |
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Mezzo-soprano Erika Person debuted at
Annapolis Opera as Mercedes in Carmen in 2008. Signature
roles include Adalgisa in Bellini’s Norma (Delaware
Valley Opera Company), Suzuki in Madama Butterfly (Opera
Company of the Highlands (OCH)), Hansel in Hansel and Gretel (OCH),
Mercedes in Carmen (Opera Delaware, Tri-Cities Opera),
and the Mother in Amahl and the Night Visitors (Tri-Cities
Opera). In 2006, she debuted at Carnegie Hall with the
Opera Orchestra of New York in Montemezzi’s L’Amore
dei Tre Re. Other career highlights include Mrs.
McLean (Susannah) for Indianapolis Opera, Lalume (Kismet)
for Tri-Cities Opera, and Iphigénie en Tauride at
Spoleto USA, directed by Patrice Caurier and Moshe Leiser. As
a young artist, she appeared with Lake George Opera as Mercedes
and as Zulma (L’Italiana in Algeri), and at
Dicapo Opera Theatre as the Third Lady (The Magic Flute),
Flora Bervoix (La traviata), Kate Pinkerton (Madama
Butterfly, La Scala and Brescia versions),and in the parody Opera
Senza Rancor.
Equally at home in operetta and classical musical theater,
Ms. Person has regularly been featured with the New York Gilbert & Sullivan
Players (NYGASP) since her 2004 City Center debut in the title
role of Iolanthe. This season she performed
the role of Dame Hannah in Ruddigore to critical acclaim. Other
roles with NYGASP include Pitti-Sing in The Mikado,
Ruth and Edith in The Pirates of Penzance, Phoebe
in The Yeomen of the Guard, Tessa in The Gondoliers and
Cousin Hebe in H.M.S. Pinafore. Other favorite
crossover roles include Prince Orlofsky (Die Fledermaus),
Sarah Brown (Guys & Dolls), Lady Thiang (The
King & I), and Martha Jefferson (1776).
Oratorio and concert repertoire includes Brahms’ Alto
Rhapsody, Handel’s Messiah, Mozart’s Requiem,
Rossini’s Stabat Mater, John Harbison’s Mirabai
Songs, Les Nuits d’Été by
Berlioz, and The Songs of Abelard by Norman dello
Joio, plus premieres of Mein Lebenslauf by Georg Schönberg
and I Should Be Speechless by Carlos Castañedas,
Jr.
She is thrilled to return to Annapolis for Opera
Lite! Upcoming engagements include Ruth
in Pirates with NYGASP in Scranton, and Mozart's Requiem with
the Oratorio Society of Queens in May, 2010. |
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Tenor Michael Gallant is pleased to return
to Annapolis Opera to sing in Opera Lite. Michael recently
sang the lead role of Niki in Oscar Straus' Waltzdream with
the Philadelphia Concert Operetta Theater. He makes frequent
concert appearances in the Philadelphia region with groups
such as the Ocean City Pops and The Three Tenors concert series
with Jeff Uhlig. In 2007 Michael was named the
first place winner of the Washington DC Vocal Arts Society
Discovery Series, through which he made his Kennedy Center
recital debut. An active opera singer, he has performed
the roles of Count Almaviva in Rossini’s Il barbiere
di Siviglia with Annapolis Opera, Tamino in Mozart’s The
Magic Flute, Don Ramiro in La Cenerentola,
Fenton in Verdi’s Falstaff, and Laurie in Mark
Adamo’s Little Women. He has sung with
companies throughout the country, and was an apprentice artist
with both Central City Opera and the Ohio Light Opera Company,
where he sang the roles of Nanki Poo in the Mikado,
Captain Tarnitz in the Student Prince, and
Narrator in Camelot.
In addition, Mr. Gallant is a sought after oratorio soloist
and recording artist. He performed at the Washington
DC National Cathedral as the tenor soloist in the Berlioz
Te Deum with Riley Lewis and the National Cathedral Chorale. He
also appeared as soloist for Saint-Saens’s Christmas Oratorio with
the New Dominion Chorale under the direction of Thomas Beveridge. He
has performed the St. John and St. Matthew Passion Evangelist
roles, Bach’s Magnificat, Handel’s Messiah, Mozart’s Requiem,
Haydn’s Creation, as well as numerous Bach cantatas with organizations
such as the Detroit Chamber Players, the University Musical Society, Washington
Summer Sings, the New Jersey Master Chorale and the Baltimore Master Chorale. An
advocate of works by living composers, his discography includes recordings
of The Golem and Gimpel the Fool for Sony Records Project, Easter
Joy for Equilibrium, and most recently a new recording of sacred arias
for the Hal Leonard Corporation. This spring Michael will perform in
Bruckner's Te Deum with the New Jersey Master Chorale.
Mr. Gallant holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees
in vocal performance from the University of Michigan, where
he studied with Randall Reid-Smith, Martin Katz, and Theodore
Morrison. He also attended the Eastman School of Music. |
Greek-American bass-baritone Stephanos
Tsirakoglou has sung many signature buffo roles
including Dottor Dulcamara in L'Elisir d'Amore,
Dottor Bartolo in Il barbiere di Siviglia, the
title role in Falstaff, and Major General Stanley
in The Pirates of Penzance.
Mr. Tsirakoglou has also had great success on the concert stage
having sung the baritone and bass solos in the Mozart, Fauré,
Brahms, and Howells Requiems, Bach's St. John Passion and Magnificat,
Handel's Foundling Hospital Anthem and Messiah,
and Purcell's Dido and Aeneas and Ode
to St. Cecilia's Day.
Mr. Tsirakoglou was recently seen as a guest artist singing
the Musiklehrer in the Seattle
Opera Young Artist Program’s production of Ariadne
auf Naxos. He has performed as a principal
artist with the Opera
Company of Philadelphia, the Utah
Festival Opera Company, and the Opera
Company of Middlebury among others, and has previously
been engaged as an apprentice artist with Lake
George Opera and Opera
New Jersey.
Mr. Tsirakoglou currently studies with Mr. Mark
Oswald, Metropolitan Opera baritone and full time faculty
member at the Manhattan School of Music.
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