MEZZO-SOPRANO. Lori-Kaye Miller SEASONED ARTIST

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1 MEZZO-SOPRANO Lori-Kaye Miller SEASONED ARTIST

Annio in La Clemenza di Tito Opera News Reviews Ariadne auf Naxos.

stunning middle voice... she imbued the idealistic artist s lines with deep feeling, capturing the opera s soul and inspiring an ovation.

By the time she finished the Habanera, she had kicked over a soldier, pulled a chorister s hair and put an ankle lock on Zuniga s neck.

2 Annio in La Clemenza di Tito Opera News Reviews Ariadne auf Naxos...a wonderfully rich, passionate sound, including loamy chest tone and that contemporary rarity among mezzos of any tonal weight - a stunning middle voice... she imbued the idealistic artist s lines with deep feeling, capturing the opera s soul and inspiring an ovation. Carmen As Carmen, Lori-Kaye Miller caught one s attention as she sauntered onstage in Act I. By the time she finished the Habanera, she had kicked over a soldier, pulled a chorister s hair and put an ankle lock on Zuniga s neck. Before scampering back to the cigarette factory, she brashly kissed Jose and thrust a blood-red flower into his mouth. Miller sang the music as vividly as she acted. Her dusky-toned mezzo projected sensuality but also took on a touch of steel in the climaxes.

pants roles of Romeo, Nicklaus, Cherubino, Idamante, Sesto, Annio and especially Strauss Octavian and The Composer have stirred nothing more than an international sensation.

She has also collaborated with conductors and directors from around the world such as Danny Beckwith, Harry Bicket, Richard Buckley, Raymond Harvey, Ward Holmquist, George Manahan, Eve Queler,

Minnesota Orchestra Kalamazoo Symphony, Indianapolis Symphony, Seattle Symphony, Portland Symphony and Ensemble du Monde in repertoire that ranges from Mahler s Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen to

3 Biography Carnegie Hall Carmen Ms. Miller s poignant partials of Carmen, Dalilah, Giulietta, Dorabella, Adalgisa, Charlotte and Suzuki have distinguished her as one of the top mezzo-sopranos in the world and her dynamic gender bending pants roles of Romeo, Nicklaus, Cherubino, Idamante, Sesto, Annio and especially Strauss Octavian and The Composer have stirred nothing more than an international sensation. Bad Neuenahr ARTE Wer wird Carmen New York. She has also collaborated with conductors and directors from around the world such as Danny Beckwith, Harry Bicket, Richard Buckley, Raymond Harvey, Ward Holmquist, George Manahan, Eve Queler, Jonathan Alver, Stephen Lawless, Marc Versatt and Marlon Daniel. Minnesota Orchestra Kalamazoo Symphony, Indianapolis Symphony, Seattle Symphony, Portland Symphony and Ensemble du Monde in repertoire that ranges from Mahler s Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen to Durefle s Requiem and Beethoven s 9th Symphony. Having been chosen for consideration in the 2011 Grammy Awards for a nomination in the category of Best Vocal Ms. Miller has performed with Performance in the recording of numerous opera companies which Phoenix Forever with the Prague include New York City Opera, Sinfonietta; available on Amazon, Minnesota Opera, Michigan Opera Ms. Miller has also made her Theater, Lyric Opera Kansas City, El Carnegie Hall debut as a soloist Paso Opera, Lake George Opera with the New England Symphony Festival, Opera OT, De Nederlandse Ensemble. She has also appeared Opera and The Opera Orchestra of with the Boise Philharmonic, Recently, Ms. Miller was the finalist for the role of Carmen in the first ever televised opera casting show premier of Wer wird Carmen. The show aired on ARTE with over 2.5m viewers for the Berliner Seefestspiele s production of Carmen, directed by Volker Schlöndorﬀ.

4 Cherubino in Le Nozze di Figaro

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Cosi fan tutte Die Zauberflöte Idomeneo Le Nozze di Figaro La Clemenza di Tito Offenbach Les Contes d Hoffmann La Grande

Rosenkavalier Die Fledermaus Verdi Falstaff Oratorio Beethoven 9th Symphony Durufle Requiem Händel Messiah Hayden Lord

5 Repertoire Opera Barber Vanessa Bellini I Capuletti e I Montecchi Norma Bizet Carmen Britten The Rape of Lucretia Delebes Lakme Donizetti Anna Bolena La Favorita Roberto Devereux Händel Guilio Cesare Xerxes Massenet Cendrillon Werther Mozart Cosi fan tutte Die Zauberflöte Idomeneo Le Nozze di Figaro La Clemenza di Tito Offenbach Les Contes d Hoffmann La Grande Duchesse La Perichole Puccini Madama Butterfly Manon Lescaut Saint-Saëns Samson et Dalilah Strauss Ariadne auf Naxos Der Rosenkavalier Die Fledermaus Verdi Falstaff Oratorio Beethoven 9th Symphony Durufle Requiem Händel Messiah Hayden Lord Nelson Mass Mendelssohn Elijah Mozart - Requiem - Coronation Mass - Credo - Mass in C minor Giulietta in Les Contes d Hoffmann

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STEPHEN STEFFENS, TENOR

STEPHEN STEFFENS, TENOR Tenor Stephen Steffens is an emerging lyric tenor who has been praised for having a sweet yet heroic sound. His 2018 credits include: Belmonte in The abduction from the Seraglio; Leandro in La Cifra; Captain