Alisa Peterson s amber, sultry soprano and her commitment to style and articulate phrasing are bringing her great success. Her elegant appearance and natural ability to create multifaceted, authentic characters make her an instant audience favorite. Last season Ms. Peterson sang the soprano solo in Marie Nelson Bennett s Once in Israel at the Libby Gardner Concert Hall in Salt Lake City. During the 2016/17 season, she performed Ann in Martin Halpern s Joint Return at Shetler Studios in NYC. In recent seasons, audiences have seen Ms. Peterson in the roles of Minnie in The Prospector and Pamina in Die Zauberflöte with LA Opera Outreach, Adina in L Elisir d Amore and Isabelle/Madeline in Mollicone s The Face on the Barroom Floor with Opera Las Vegas, Countess Almaviva in Le Nozze di Figaro with Paradigm Chamber Orchestra, Giulia in The Gondoliers and Gabriella in La Rondine with Utah Opera, the title role in Suor Angelica and Poppea in L Incoronazione di Poppea at La Musica Lirica in Italy, Musetta in La Bohème with Sandy City Symphony, and in the title role of Donizetti s Rita with Rochester Lyric Opera. She has covered for Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni at Festival of the Voice in Phoenicia (NY) and for Violetta in La Traviata with Nevada Opera Theatre. While in the Master s program at University of Utah she performed Donna Anna in Don Giovanni, Alice Ford in Falstaff, and Rose in Street Scene. Active in concert music, Alisa Peterson has been a featured soloist in sacred works, recitals, and programs featuring the American Songbook across the United States, including: Beethoven s Mass in C and Symphony No. 9, Händel s Messiah, Mozart s Requiem, Exsultate Jubilate, and Coronation Mass, Dvorak s Requiem, Vivaldi s Gloria, Tan Dun s Water Passion, Haydn s Creation, Kleine Orgelmesse, Lord Nelson Mass, and Creation Mass, Babbit s Phonemena, and Schoenberg s 2 nd String Quartet. She made her Carnegie Hall debut as the soprano soloist in John Rutter s Requiem and Haydn s Missa Brevis Sancti Joannis de Deo. Ms. Peterson has developed a long-standing passion for contemporary music whose composers find her dramatic and succinctly musical approach to be the perfect compliment to their writing. She is a go to soprano for New York composer Martin Halpern and has created a number of characters in his operas. She has also sung works by Marie Nelson Bennett, Brian Crosby, Igor Iachimciuc, Samuel Richards, Yehudi Wyner, and Marie Grudzien.
Opera Ann Joint Return Shetler Studios 2017 Woman The Damned Thing Church of St. Gregory the Great, NYC 2016 Irene/Woman The Sculpture/The Hourglass Shetler Studios 2015 Athena/Antigone Death of Ajax/Oedipus Church of St. Gregory the Great, NYC 2015 Lucille Last Wishes The Bridge Theatre, NYC 2015 Mrs. X/Ann The Stronger (WP)/Joint Return The Bridge Theatre, NYC 2014 Eurydice Orpheus Lex Libby Gardner Concert Hall (UT) 2014 Alcestis/Iphigenia Alcestis/Iphigenia in Tauris The Bridge Theatre, NYC 2014 Woman The Damned Thing (WP) The Bridge Theatre, NYC 2014 Rita Rita Rochester Lyric Opera 2013 Minnie The Prospector LA Opera Outreach 2013 Pamina The Magic Flute LA Opera Outreach 2013 Pam The Magic Dream LA Opera Outreach 2013 Minnie The Prospector LA Opera Outreach 2011 Mrs. Middleman Mrs. Middleman s Descent (WP) New York New Church 2011 Elvira (c) Don Giovanni Festival of the Voice 2011 Madam Kyotsune The Lock of Hair (WP) New York New Church 2011 Tsuneyo s Wife The Dwarf Trees New York New Church 2011 Minnie The Prospector LA Opera Outreach 2010 Adina L Elisir d Amore Opera Las Vegas 2010 Violetta (c) La Traviata Nevada Opera Theatre 2009 Isabelle/Madeline The Face on the Barroom Floor Opera Las Vegas 2009 Giulia The Gondoliers Utah Opera 2007 Suor Angelica Suor Angelica La Musica Lirica (Italy) 2007 Gretel Hansel and Gretel Berkshire Opera Company 2006 Donna Anna Don Giovanni University of Utah Lyric Opera 2006 Countess The Marriage of Figaro Paradigm Chamber Opera 2006 Gabriella La Rondine Utah Opera 2006 Musetta La Bohème Sandy City Symphony 2005 Alice Ford Falstaff University of Utah Lyric Opera 2005 Poppea L Incoronazione di Poppea La Musica Lirica (Italy) 2005 Rose Street Scene University of Utah Lyric Opera 2005 Concert & Oratorio Soloist Bennett Once in Israel Libby Gardner Hall (UT) 2017 Soloist American Songbook Bull Valley Roadhouse (CA) 2016 Soloist O Divine Redeemer L Eglise Americaine, Paris 2016 Beethoven/Mozart Mass in C, Exsultate Jubilate, K117 Rochester Oratorio Society 2013 Bach Cantata 49 Bach Cantata Series, Baltimore 2013 Händel Messiah Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra 2012 Soloist Opera Concert Salon Opera San Luis Obispo 2012 Soloist Opera Gala Union City Opera (NJ) 2012 Soloist Deck the Halls Bruno Walter Auditorium 2011 Mozart Coronation Mass Rochester Oratorio Society 2011 Vivaldi Gloria Festival of the Voice, Phoenicia, NY 2011 Porter Best of Cole Porter Southern Nevada Musical Arts Society 2011 Soloist Opera Gala Libby Gardner Hall (UT) 2011
Alisa Peterson Concert & Oratorio Soloist, cont d Haydn Kleine Orgelmesse Mid-America Concerts, Carnegie Hall 2011 Rutter Requiem Mid-America Concerts, Carnegie Hall 2011 Soloist Gala Concert Union City Opera (NJ) 2011 Händel Messiah Southern Nevada Musical Arts Society 2010 Soloist Deck the Halls Bruno Walter Auditorium 2010 Bach Cantata BWV 140 Las Vegas Peoples Valley Chorus 2010 Haydn The Creation Southern Nevada Musical Arts Society 2010 Bach Cantata BWV 32 Las Vegas Peoples Valley Chorus 2010 Soloist Best of Mercer & Arlen Southern Nevada Musical Arts Society 2010 Haydn Creation Mass Southern Nevada Musical Arts Society 2009 Soloist Best of Gershwin & Berlin Southern Nevada Musical Arts Society 2009 Mozart Coronation Mass Guardian Angel Cathedral (NV) 2009 Tan Dun Water Passion Libby Gardner Hall (UT) 2009 Recitalist Song by Koray Sazli University of Nevada Las Vegas 2009 Dvorak Requiem St. Paul s Episcopal Church (NV) 2008 Soloist Opera Gala Nevada Opera Theatre 2008 Haydn Lord Nelson Mass Salt Lake Choral Artists 2008 Schoenberg 2 nd String Quartet Intermezzo Chamber Music Series 2008 Rutter Mass of the Children Salt Lake Choral Artists 2007 Haydn The Creation Salt Lake Choral Artists 2007 Grudzien Dreams & Disasters (WP) Composers Forum, Salt Lake 2006 Babbit Phonemena Canyonlands New Music Ensemble 2006 Richards Plum (WP) Composers Forum, Salt Lake 2006 Wyner On This Most Voluptuous Night Canyonlands New Music Ensemble 2006 Iachimciuc Vreau sa joc (WP) Composers Forum, Salt Lake 2006 Crosby Oratorio on the Life of Christ (WP) Libby Gardner Hall (UT) 2006 Kikta La Luce delle Tacite Stelle Utah Harp Ensemble 2006 Mozart Requiem University of Utah 2006 Beethoven Symphony No. 9 University of Utah 2005 Education & Young Artist Programs Summer in Payerbach, Artist Program 2016 La Musica Lirica, Young Artist 2007 Berkshire Opera Company, Resident Artist 2006 La Musica Lirica, Young Artist 2005 University of Utah, Master of Music: Vocal Performance 2006 Brigham Young University, Bachelor of Arts: Music 2004 Awards & Grants Second Prize, Classical Idol Competition, Rochester Oratotio Society 2012 Finalist, Classical Idol Competition, Rochester Oratotio Society 2011 Winner, Pasadena Opera Guild Competition for young Singers 2010 Finalist, Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions (Rocky Mountain Region) 2007 Finalist, NATSAA (Cal-Western Region) 2004
Bizet Micaëla...... Carmen Leïla. Les Pecheurs de Perles Britten Ellen Orford.... Peter Grimes Female Chorus.... The Rape of Lucretia Governess... The Turn of the Screw Donizetti Anna Bolena... Anna Bolena Adina.. L Elisir d Amore Lucia... Lucia di Lammermoor Elizabeth. Roberto Devereux Martin Halpern Ann.... Joint Return Händel Cleopatra...... Giulio Cesare Lehár Hanna Glawari.... The Merry Widow Massenet Manon..... Manon Thaïs.. Thaïs Monteverdi Poppea..... L Incoronazione di Poppea Mozart Vitellia La Clemanza di Tito Fiordiligi.. Così fan tutte Donna Anna, Donna Elvira Don Giovanni Elettra........ Idomeneo Babbit.... Phonemena Beethoven. Mass in C, Symphony No. 9 Dvorak.. Requiem Händel.......... Messiah Haydn.. Creation, Kleine Orgelmesse, Lord Nelson Mass, Missa Brevis Opera Repertoire Mozart, cont d Contessa.... Le Nozze di Figaro Pamina, First Lady... Die Zauberflöte Offenbach Antonia..... Les Contes d Hoffmann Prévin Blanche. A Streetcar Named Desire Puccini Mimi, Musetta... La Bohème Lauretta..... Gianni Schicchi Magda..... La Rondine Suor Angelica... Suor Angelica Liù... Turandot Rossini Rosina.. Il Barbiere di Siviglia J. Strauss Rosalinde.... Die Fledermaus R. Strauss Arabella...... Arabella Daphne.. Daphne Stravinksy Anne Truelove... The Rake s Progress Verdi Alice Ford.. Falstaff Gilda. Rigoletto Violetta.. La Traviata Weill Rose.... Street Scene Concert Repertoire Mozart... Exsultate, Jubilate, Requiem, Coronation Mass Rutter... Requiem Schoenberg..... 2nd String Quartet Tan Dun.... Water Passion Vivaldi...... Gloria This list represents recommended roles in the artist's operatic repertoire. For a list of performed repertoire, please refer to the artist's resume and biography.
Alisa Peterson Reviews [Peterson] took the role of protagonist, tempter and narrator. Her stratospheric range and stylistic suppleness were impressive. Robert Coleman, SALT LAKE TRIBUNE, April 2009 [Peterson], who has a powerfully dramatic voice but also knows how to carefully modulate it with beautifully crafted expressiveness, was radiant in the final two movements. She captured the anguish and suffering in the third movement Litanei (Litany) and the at times unnerving otherworldliness of the final movements Entrückung (Rapture). Edward Reichel, DESERT NEWS, July 2008 Alisa [Peterson], who is a wonderfully dynamic singer, gave an effortless performance of the piece [Milton Babbitt s Phonemena] that showed her vocal prowess to the fullest. Edward Reichel, DESERT NEWS, Salt Lake City, 2007 Alisa [Peterson] was the soloist. She gave a virtuosic performance that did full justice to her part. Her wide vocal range and rich expressiveness were a perfect match for the music. Edward Reichel, DESERT NEWS, Salt Lake City, 2006...A well-performed opera with a terrific professional cast of singer-actors... kudos go to the performers, especially Alisa [Peterson] and Carolyn A. Kahl, who were Gretel and Hansel... Seth Rogovoy, BERKSHIRE LIVING MAGAZINE, 2006 Lyric soprano Alisa [Peterson] as Gretel and mezzo soprano Carolyn A. Kahl as Hansel are well up to the vocal demands. Elyse Sommer, CURTAINUP, BERKSHIRES, 2006 Joining the harpists... were soloists Alisa [Peterson], soprano, and Tyler Nelson, tenor. Both were exceptional, complementing the choir and bringing operatic flair to their singing. Edward Reichel, DESERT NEWS, Salt Lake City, 2006