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Zambalis moved to Houston along with Nikolaidi where she became a member of the Houston Grand Opera young artist program. She was the 1983 winner of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. She began her career as a mezzo-soprano and switched to soprano in the mid 1990s.
The Wortham Theater Center. Houston Grand Opera (HGO) is an American opera company located in Houston, Texas. Founded in 1955 by German-born impresario Walter Herbert and three local Houstonians, [ 1 ] the company is resident at the Wortham Theater Center. This theatre is also home to the Houston Ballet. In its history, the company has received ...
Rihab Chaieb was the Grand Prize winner of the George London Foundation in 2018 and the First Prize winner of the Gerda Lissner International Vocal Competition in 2016. Additionally, she achieved Second Prize in the Opera Index Voice Competition in 2016 and won the Grand Prize in the Christina & Louis Quilico Award Competition in 2013.
Premiere. 29 October 1787 (1787-10-29) Estates Theatre, Prague. Don Giovanni (Italian pronunciation: [ˌdɔn dʒoˈvanni]; K. 527; Vienna (1788) title: Il dissoluto punito, ossia il Don Giovanni, literally The Rake Punished, or Don Giovanni) is an opera in two acts with music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to an Italian libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte.
He received particular distinction in the title role of Mozart's Don Giovanni, which he sang at the Metropolitan Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Vienna State Opera, [2] Bilbao Opera, Houston Grand Opera, San Francisco Opera, [3] Santa Fe Opera, [4] Warsaw Opera, Royal Opera House, London, [5] and Seattle Opera, where he won the company's 2006 ...
Peter Coleman-Wright. Peter Coleman-Wright AO (born 13 October 1958) [1] is an Australian baritone from Geelong. [2] He began his career at Glyndebourne Festival Opera, where he sang Guglielmo in Così fan tutte, winning the Touring Prize. Subsequently, he sang Sid in Albert Herring and Demetrius in A Midsummer Night's Dream and Pizzaro in Fidelio.
9 February 1966 (age 58) Coppull, England. Occupations. Opera singer ( soprano) Voice teacher. Years active. 1989 – present. Amanda Jane Roocroft (born 9 February 1966) is an English operatic soprano, who in the course of her career has sung leading roles in the opera houses of Europe and North America. She is also a voice professor at London ...
Website. grammy.com. The Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording has been awarded since 1961. The award was originally titled Best Classical Opera Production. The current title has been used since 1962. Prior to 1961 the awards for operatic and choral performances were combined in a single award for Best Classical Performance, Operatic or Choral.