Soloists
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Phyllis Pancella |
Mezzo-soprano Phyllis Pancella has appeared on many international opera, concert, and recital stages in repertoire ranging from baroque to that of the present century. In addition her appearances with Music of the Baroque, in 2008–09 she will also sing as soloist in Bach’s St. Matthew Passion at the Brooklyn Academy of Music under Paul Goodwin. Highlights of recent seasons include the title role in The Rape of Lucretia with Central City Opera; Sesto in La Clemenza di Tito with Opera Boston; Mrs. Noye in Britten's Noye's Fludde with Los Angeles Opera; Dolores in the world premiere of Anthony Davis' Wakonda's Dream with Opera Omaha; her return to Houston Grand Opera in the title role of Carmen; Rosina in Il Barbiere di Siviglia with Florida Grand Opera; Isabella in L’Italiana in Algeri with Boston Lyric Opera and Connecticut Opera, and Nerone in L'Incoronazione di Poppea with Central City Opera. Recent concert appearances included her return to Boston Baroque in Vivaldi's Juditha Triumphans.
Other highlights on the operatic stage include Cornelia in a new production of Giulio Cesare under Patrick Summers with Houston Grand Opera; Fidalma in Il Matrimonio segreto with Opera Theatre of Saint Louis; Mrs. Lovett in Sweeney Todd with Opera Colorado; Boulotte in Offenbach's Bluebeard with Glimmerglass Opera; Giovanna Seymour in Anna Bolena and Adalgisa in Norma with Pittsburgh Opera; Sesto in Giulio Cesare with Florida Grand Opera; Monteverdi's Il Ritorno d'Ulisse in patria with Boston Baroque; the title role in La Cenerentola with Cincinnati Opera; Ottavia in L'Incoronazione di Poppea at Glimmerglass Opera and Brooklyn Academy of Music under Jonathan Miller; and in John Adam's Nixon in China with the Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra. She also appeared in the title role of Lizzie Borden (broadcast on PBS Great Performances series) at both Glimmerglass Opera and New York City Opera.
On the concert stage, Ms. Pancella has performed Mozart's Requiem with the San Diego and Detroit symphonies, the Cincinnati Symphony (James Conlon conducting), and at the Berkshire Choral Festival under the baton of Jane Glover. Other highlights include Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 with the National Symphony Orchestra under Leonard Slatkin; Bach's Magnificat with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and Cleveland Orchestra; Berio's Folk Songs and Berlioz's La Mort de Cléopâtre with the New World Symphony Orchestra; Szymanowski's Stabat Mater with the Milwaukee Symphony; and Messiah with Boston Baroque, the National Symphony Orchestra, and the Minnesota Orchestra.