Amid the wide-ranging demands of his repertoire, critics note that Enrico is readily heard: “Bass-baritone Enrico Lagasca summoned nearly as much volume as everyone else onstage put together, and matched that visceral force with vivid phrasing,” wrote Baltimore’s Tim Smith regarding the U.S. premiere of the Jonathan Dove opera The Monster in the Maze by […]

He will also sing debut Schubert’s Mass No. 5 in A-flat with the São Paulo Symphony and sing a recital with Craig Terry at the Kennedy Center in Washington for Vocal Arts DC. On the stage, Lunga will make a debut at Minnesota Opera returning to the role of Count Almaviva in Il Barbiere di

Her extensive portfolio also includes solo appearances at St. Thomas Fifth Avenue, American Classical Orchestra, Bach Akademie Charlotte, Cantata Collective, Riverside Choral Society, Princeton Pro Musica, Bach Vespers at Holy Trinity, Baroque Music Montana, Early Music Access Project, and Emmanuel Music Baltimore, among others — in repertoire spanning from Bach, Handel, and Purcell to Mahler,

In January 2014 she was awarded a Grammy with contemporary octet Roomful of Teeth, for best chamber music/small ensemble performance; in November 2011 she received first prize in the Canticum Gaudium International Early Music Vocal Competition in Poznań, Poland. Estelí can be heard on the Seattle Symphony’s 2017 recording of Nielsen’s Symphony No. 3, on

The Dallas Morning News writes of her performance with Voices of Change of Ursula Mamlok’s Stray Birds: “What made the experience riveting was soprano Dee Donasco’s amazing singing. She negotiated wide leaps with uncanny precision — indeed, artistry — with an enameled tone of real beauty.”  In a very busy 2022/23 season, Dee made her

While in school, Mr. McKinney received the Helen Odom Scholarship, the Music Dean’s Talent Scholarship, and the Chancellor’s Grant for Excellence. Jason was the winner of the 2001 and 2002 Civic Music Association of Milwaukee’s Harold Levin scholarship competition and was awarded the Judges Choice award at the 2001 Metropolitan Opera’s district competition. In 2004

In the 23/24 season, Elliott debuted with the Minnesota Orchestra, Grand Rapids Symphony, Charlotte Symphony, Pacific Symphony, San Antonio Symphony, and New Jersey Symphony. He also performs the world premiere of a new orchestral version of John Corigliano’s Phantasmagoria, commissioned for him by a consortium of orchestras including the Orlando Philharmonic and music director Eric

Ushikubo made his orchestral debut at age ten with the Young Musicians Foundation Orchestra in Los Angeles’s Dorothy Chandler Pavilion with Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 1 alongside conductor Teddy Abrams. A recipient of the prestigious Davidson Fellow Laureate Award in 2014, Ushikubo was named a Young Steinway Artist and won the 2017 Hilton Head International

She has sung with the LA Chamber Orchestra, American Bach Soloists, Portland Baroque Orchestra, Santa Fe Pro Musica, Charlotte Symphony, Memphis Symphony, Phoenix Symphony, New Mexico Symphony Orchestra, Winston-Salem Symphony, and Tucson Symphony Orchestra. Favorite concert works include Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915, Glière’s Concerto for Coloratura Soprano, Haydn’s Creation, Bach’s St. John Passion, and anything by Mozart or Handel. She collaborates

Following his portrayal of Edgardo in Lucia di Lammermoor, under the baton of Jesús López-Cobos at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, the Chicago Sun-Times  proclaimed “Ramsay brought a passionate intensity to the role that matched the fire of Dessay’s riveting Lucia.” Of his Canadian debut in Verdi’s Requiem with Sir Andrew Davis and the Toronto

In 2023-2024, Ms. Semerdjian returns to Tacoma Opera to make her role debut as the title role in Carmen. On the concert stage, she appears in Verdi’s Requiem with Symphony Tacoma and for the Masterworks Concert Series with Symphoria. In 2022-2023, Ms. Semerdjian sang Ambassador to Space in Derrick Skye’s Song of the Ambassadors at