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"Michele Capalbo has a genuine voice, from a lower register she actually uses to high floating pianissimos." The New York Times
"The highest praise ... should go to Capalbo's noble and dignified Tosca. Her delightful voice is founded on both solid technique and a subtle musicality." Opera Canada "Michele Capalbo [was] a world-class Aida, passionate, subtle and vocally satisfying." Opera News Soprano Michele Capalbo is a native of Canada and holds degree in vocal performance from the University of Western Ontario. In 1999 she won the first prize in the Liederkranz Awards for Voice in New York City and later that year made her operatic debut in New York's Central Park in the role of Helene in Verdi's Les Vepres Siciliennes. Two seasons later she made her European debut in the title role of Aida at the Festival de Musique de Strasbourg in France. Ms Capalbo's roles include the title roles in Aida, Tosca and Manon Lescaut in addition to Leonora in La Forza Del Destino, Alice Ford in Falstaff, the Countess in Le Nozze Di Figaro, Marguerite in Faust, the Female Chorus in the Rape of Lucretia, Micaela in Carmen, and Faedra in the baroque opera L'egisto. She has performed with Arizona Opera, Des Moines Metro Opera, Fort Worth Opera, Manitoba Opera, Natchez Opera Festival, National Lyric Opera, New York Grand Opera, Opera Illinois, Opera Mississauga, L'Opera de Montreal, Opera de Quebec and the Sylvan Opera Festival. In the 2001-2002 season Ms Capalbo will appear as Anna in a new production of La Dame Blanche with Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Duesseldorf, Micaela in Kentucky Opera's Carmen, the Governess in the Turn of the Screw with Toledo Opera, and in a concert performance in the title role of Aida with Opera Roanoke. Future engagements include Violetta in Austin Lyric Opera's production of La Traviata, and Aida with the Theatre du Capitole de Toulouse in France. Ms Capalbo's schedule of concerts and recitals from Montreal to Mississippi includes the premiere of Songs of Celebration by Canadian composer Ruth Watson-Henderson, as well as performances of the Brahms Requiem, Mozart's Missa Brevis, and Poulenc's Gloria. Ms Capalbo's principal teachers and coaches are Arthur Levy in New York; Fiora Contino, artistic director of Opera Illinois; and Steven Crawford, conductor with the Metropolitan Opera. In 2001 Michele Capalbo was awarded the George London Foundation grant for Canadian Singers and the Vancouver Opera Career Development Grant. |
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