Theodora Hanslowe

Theodora Hanslowe is a well-known American concert and operatic mezzo-soprano. She actually is a indigenous of Ithaca, NY, and gained her bachelor of arts at Cornell School. She continuing her voice research at Peabody Conservatory, gaining an Musician Diploma. She benefited in 1992 from a Richard F. Silver Career Offer and a Theodore Presser Research Offer, and participated in the opera workshops from the Santa Fe Opera in New Mexico as well as the Cincinnati Opera. She’s came back to Cincinnati to sing like a soloist for the reason that city’s popular May Event. Her main operatic debut was at South America’s leading opera home, the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, as the Composer in Richard Strauss’ Ariadne auf Naxos, in 1993. Hanslowe debuted in the Metropolitan Opera in NY in 1994, in the starring part of Rosina in Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia, and offers returned for even more performances, like the part of Stephano in Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette. Her NY recital debut was at Weill Recital Hall in NY, in the 1997 – 1998 time of year. Rosina is among her signature tasks. She’s sung it using the Opera Theatre of St. Louis, the Glimmerglass Opera, the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, the Portland Opera, and the brand new Israeli Opera in Tel Aviv. Another leading part in her repertory may be the name component in Rossini’s Cenerentola (Cinderella), which she’s sung using the Florida Grand Opera (she debuted there for the reason that part in the 1995-1996 time of year), the Deutsche Staatsoper Dresden, the Deutsche Opera am Rhein Düsseldorf, L’Opéra de Montréal, as well as the Washington Summer season Opera. Furthermore, she’s sung Isabella in L’Italiana in Algeri using the LA Music Middle Opera and offers appeared using the Monte Carlo Opera as Chérubin in Massenet’s opera. She actually is utilized in period efficiency and design, and offers sung Dorabella in Mozart’s Così lover tutte with Boston Baroque, in Monteverdi’s Il Ritorno d’Ulisse in Patria using the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra under Raymond Leppard, and on a tour of america using the Hanover Music group, singing an application of Mozart arias. Her concert repertoire contains Britten’s The Save of Penelope, performing the U.S. premiere of the task, once again under Leppard using the Indianapolis Symphony, Berlioz’s Les Nuits d’été (the task on her behalf Carnegie Hall debut, using the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra), Bernstein’s Arias and Barcarolles (using the Chamber Music Culture of Lincoln Middle), as well as the Schoenberg chamber agreement of Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde (with associates from the Süddeutscher Rundfunk Stuttgart).