fter several successful seasons at home and abroad, Canadian soprano Lucia Cesaroni joins l'Opera de Montréal's Atelier Lyrique training program for the 2011/12 season. At l'Opera de Montréal, Lucia performs Laurette in Bizet's Docteur Miracle, following which she makes her debut with Vancouver Opera as Maria in West Side Story. In concert, Lucia performs Handel's Messiah with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra under Kent Nagano and with the Victoria Symphony Orchestra under Timothy Vernon.
Her opera credits include: Anne Trulove in The Rake's Progress and First Lady in Die Zauberflöte with Pacific Opera Victoria; Cleopatra in Giulio Cesare with Orchestra London; Susanna and Barbarina in Le nozze di Figaro with Opera York and Opera Hamilton, respectively; Adele in Die Fledermaus with Toronto Operetta Theatre; Pamina in Die Zauberflöte, Susannah in Le nozze di Figaro, and Lucy in The Telephone with the International Vocal Arts Institute; Adina in L'elisir d'amore with the Centre for Opera Studies in Italy; Rooster in Cunning Little Vixen with the Aspen Music Festival, and; Adina in L'elisir d'amore, Lucia in The Rape of Lucretia, and Ginevra in Ariodante with the University of Toronto Opera Division.
In concert, Lucia has performed at the Ravinia Festival, the Aldeburgh Music Festival, and as soprano soloist for the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra's European tour of Orff's Carmina Burana. Her concert repertoire also includes: Mendelssohn's Lobgesang, Bruckner's Te Deum, Ginastera's Cantata Para Americana Magica, Vivaldi's Gloria, Schubert's Shepherd on the Rock and Villa Lobos' Bacchiana Brasilieras. A frequent recitalist, Lucia appears regularly with The Bayfield Festival of Song, The Aldeburgh Connection, and the Off-Centre Music Salon at the Glenn Gould Studio.
Lucia holds a Masters Degree in Opera from the University of Toronto and also spent a year in Germany at the Hochschule für Musik Nürnburg with renowned soprano Edith Wiens. She has trained at the Steans Music Institute at the Ravinia Festival, the Britten Pears Young Artist Programme at the Aldeburgh Music Festival, the Aspen Music Festival, the Chautauqua Music Festival, the Centre for Opera Studies in Italy, and the International Vocal Arts Institute's training programs in Tel Aviv and Montreal.
"Soprano Lucia Cesaroni is perfectly cast as Maria. A fiery and convincing actress, Cesaroni the singer has a rich, dark voice and a vocal maturity that makes her do-or-die passion obvious."
—David Gordon Duke, Vancouver Sun
"Cesaroni looks and sounds the part of the newly-arrived Maria, innocent and charming, and her voice has attractive dark undertones that give her a hint of otherness."
—Elissa Poole, Globe and Mail
Interview: Vancouver Opera dons its dancing shoes for West Side Story
—Jessica Werb, straight.com
"Lucia Cesaroni is a stunning Cleopatra. Her voice has just enough wildness to lift the impulsive nature of the youthful character to that intangible level that separates good from great...'V'adoro pupille', which opened the second act was ravishing."
—Brian Hay, norules-nolights.com
"Cesaroni's is an artfully complex Cleopatra...[she] certainly knows how to hit just the right note."
—James Reaney, London Free Press
"Lucia Cesaroni's Anne is true in pitch, lovely in sound."
—Elissa Poole, Globe and Mail
"The voice of the young soprano Lucia Cesaroni at first seems larger, deeper, more mature than one might expect in the role of Anne Trulove...As the story unfolds, the richness of Cesaroni's voice pays dramatic dividends, underscoring Anne's depth and passion and growth as a person. The strength of Anne's resolve is palpable in a commanding account of her cabaletta which culminates in a hall-filling high C."
—Kevin Bazzana, Victoria Times Colonist
"At the tender age of 26, and less than two years out of her schooling, Lucia Cesaroni looked and sounded just like Anne Trulove as Stravinsky and his librettists W.H. Auden and Chester Kallman must have conceived her - sweet, loyal, lyrical, and totally grounded in her sincerity and seriousness."
—Bernard Jacobson, Opera Magazine (UK)
“The real star was the music itself with the Royal Philharmonic playing its socks off for conductor Walter Haupt and his soloists...in the pure-toned soprano from Canada, Lucia Cesaroni.”
—Jessica Duchen, The Independent (UK)
“Soprano Lucia Cesaroni as Ginevra showed a thrilling voice replete with a seductive vibrato throughout”
—Paula Citron, Classical 96.3 FM
“Soprano Lucia Cesaroni is still at opera school but is a talent to watch. She is a lyric soprano with a delectable old-fashioned sound and beautiful legato line.”
—Paula Citron, Classical 96.3 FM
Lucia is represented by:
Carrol Anne Curry, Opera Division
Henry Ingram, Concert Division
204 St. George Street
Toronto, ON M5R 2N5
Phone: 416.969.7300
Fax: 416.969.7969
www.deanartists.com
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