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| Alyson Cambridge has been hailed by critics as “radiant, vocally assured, dramatically subtle and compelling, and artistically imaginative.” Her rich, warm soprano combined with her strikingly beautiful stage presence and her affecting musical and dramatic interpretation have brought her success on the opera stages of leading theatres in the United States as well as future debuts in Paris, Berlin, and other musical capitols around Europe. Her lyric soprano repertoire includes the roles of Mimi, Violetta, Donna Elvira, Marguerite, Liu, Micaela and Fiordiligi, amongst others. |
| Engagements for the 2010/11 season include Micaëla in Carmen and t two European house debuts - first with Polish National Opera as Violetta in LA TRAVIATA, then as Donna Elvira in DON GIOVANNI with Savonlinna Opera Festival. Ms. Cambridge also returns to Lyric Opera of Kansas City as Micaela in CARMEN and to the Metropolitan Opera for LA BOHEME. On the concert stage, she performs in recital for the U.S. Supreme Court Justices with tenor Matthew Polenzani, debuts with the National Symphony Orchestra at the J.F. Kennedy Center for their New Year's Eve Gala concert, makes her Paris concert debut at the Festival de Saint-Denis with Villa-Lobos's Bachianas Brasileiras No. 1 & 5 |
| During the 2008/09 season, Ms. Cambridge returned to the Metropolitan Opera as Crobyle in a new production of THAÏS, conducted by Jesús López-Cobos, and as Bianca in Nicolas Joël’s new production of LA RONDINE, conducted |
| by Marco Armiliato. Both productions were broadcast live in high-definition to cinemas around the world. She also made her debut at Lyric Opera of Kansas City as Mimì in LA BOHEME and rounded out the season with Mimì at Opera Theatre of Saint Louis. Her concert calendar included Les Chants d’Auvergne with the Baton Rouge Symphony, as well as the Brahms Requiem and Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5 with the Roanoke Symphony, and solo concerts in Barbados and Hawaii. During the 2007/08 season, Alyson Cambridge made several company and role debuts. She began the season as Musetta in Washington National Opera's new production of LA BOHEME, under the baton of Emmanuel Villaume, followed by her company and role debut as Mimì with Boston Lyric Opera. For her debut with Atlanta Opera, she sang her first Susanna in LE NOZZE DI FIGARO. On the concert stage, Alyson appeared with the Omaha Symphony, Roanoke Symphony, and in a recital tour of William Bolcom's From the Diary of Sally Hemings. The young American soprano is a frequent guest of the Metropolitan Opera, having made her debut in 2004 under the baton of James Levine as Frasquita in CARMEN (a performance for which The New York Times noted her “powerful, clear voice”). Other Met roles include Karolka in JENŮFA, the Flowermaiden in PARSIFAL, and Gianetta in L’ELISIR D'AMORE. Highlights of past seasons include a tour of Japan as Frasquita, under the baton of Seiji Ozawa; Clara in PORGY AND BESS at Washington National Opera, Michigan Opera Theater, and for her company debut at Los Angeles Opera; her role debut as Donna Elvira in DON GIOVANNI with Portland Opera Repertory Theatre; Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 with Sir Simon Rattle and the Oberlin Chamber Orchestra; Gounod’s Juliette with Opera Theatre of St. Louis; her company debut with Palm Beach Opera as Musetta; Euridice in Monteverdi’s L’ORFEO with the Handle & Haydn Society; Adina in L’ElLISIR D'AMORE with Wolf Trap Opera; selections from PORGY AND BESS with Peter Nero and the Detroit Symphony Orchestra; and Canteloube’s Chants d’Auvergne with Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra. Alyson Cambridge received both a B.M. in Voice Performance from the Oberlin Conservatory and a B.A. in Sociology from Oberlin College. With Oberlin Opera Theater, she performed the roles of Rosalinde in DIE FLEDERMAUS, the Maiden in Henry Mollicone's COYOTE TALES, Donna Anna in DON GIOVANNI, and Dido in DIDO AND AENEAS. During her summers at the Chautauqua Institution Voice Program, she performed the title role in Suor Angelica, Mrs. Gobineau in Menotti’s The Medium, Lauretta in GIANNI SCHICCHI, and Metella in LA VIE PARISIENNE. After graduating from Oberlin in 2002, Cambridge continued her studies at the Curtis Institute of Music, pursuing a Master's of Music, and where she performed the role of Anna Gomez in Menotti’s The Consul. Ms. Cambridge is a recent graduate of the Metropolitan Opera's Lindemann Young Artist Development Program which she was asked to join after being named a Grand Prize Winner of the 2003 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. Amongst other numerous prizes and awards, she also won First Prize in the 2003 Licia Albanese-Puccini Foundation International Voice Competition, was a 2004 George London Foundation Award recipient, and received the Régine Crespin Award at the 2008 Elardo International Opera Competition. |
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| and sings Beethoven’s 9th Symphony with the Alabama Symphony. Highlights for future seasons include her Deutsche Oper Berlin debut as Donna Elvira and her Lyric Opera of Chicago debut as Giulietta in LES CONTES D'HOFFMANN and as Julie in SHOW BOAT, with Hungarian State Opera as Mimi in LA BOHEME, as well as recitals and concerts throughout the U.S., Europe and Asia. The 2009/10 season marked Alyson Cambridge’s company debut at Portland Opera as Musetta in LA BOHEME, and her return to Washington National Opera as Clara in Francesca Zambello’s production of PORGY AND EBSS She also debuted at Opera Cleveland as Donna Elvira in DON GIOVANNI, performed concerts in New York and Sun Valley, and began a recital tour in support of her 2010 debut CD release of William Bolcom’s song cycle From the Diary of Sally Hemings. The first stop on the tour was at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall and marked the New York premiere of the piece. She also debuted with the San Francisco Symphony. |
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