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Maria Michaels Ensemble<br />
Maria is excited to be making her debut with <strong>Amore</strong>! This season<br />
she also appears in New Rochelle <strong>Opera</strong>’s Die Fledermaus chorus.<br />
Recently, Maria was chosen by the Metropolitan <strong>Opera</strong> to learn the solo<br />
roles of Vision Dancer and Oriental Dancer in Thais. She studies voice<br />
privately with Ira Siff and holds a B.A. in Musical <strong>The</strong>ater/Dance from<br />
Rhode Island College and an M.F.A. in Dance Performance/Choreography<br />
from N.Y.U.’s Tisch School. Maria has many film, theater and<br />
dance credits, most recently appearing as a featured performer in Sex<br />
and the City 2.<br />
Elizabeth Mondragon Carmen<br />
Elizabeth’s operatic roles include Rosina (Il Barbiere di Siviglia), Dido<br />
(Dido and Aeneas), Marcellina (Le Nozze di Figaro), Mercedes (Carmen),<br />
Maddalena (Rigoletto), Giulio Cesare (Giulio Cesare in Egitto),<br />
Mother (Amahl and the Night Visitors) and Pitti-Sing (<strong>The</strong> Mikado).<br />
At home in concert and recital, as well as on the operatic stage, she has<br />
been a featured soloist in performances of Mozart’s Mass in C Minor,<br />
Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Bach’s Christmas Oratorio and Rossini’s Petite<br />
Messe Solenelle, and has performed and premiered new works by local<br />
composers, including Erin Rogers, Lawrence Rush and David Sisco.<br />
Djoré Nance Escamillo<br />
Bass-Baritone Djoré is a prolific competitior and has been an award<br />
winner from the Gerda Lissner Foundation, <strong>The</strong> Giulio Gari Foundation,<br />
the Licia Albanese-Puccini Foundation, a finalist in the Young<br />
Artist competitions at the Palm Beach and Florida Grand <strong>Opera</strong> companies,<br />
and a national winner of the Leontyne Price Vocal Arts Competition.<br />
He made his Carnegie Hall debut with the <strong>Opera</strong> Orchestra of<br />
New York as Malyuta in <strong>The</strong> Tsar’s Bride. Subsequently he performed<br />
with OONY as the Grand Inquisitor in L’Africaine. Djoré studied at the<br />
esteemed Juilliard School.<br />
Sarah Nordin Mercédès<br />
Hailed for a voice with “clear beauty that resounds effortlessly,” Sarah<br />
is a fine mezzo-soprano who was praised in <strong>Opera</strong> News, for her<br />
performance of Lola in Cavalleria Rusticanna, for her ability to “hold<br />
her own with the big guns.” Most recently, Sarah was seen in <strong>The</strong><br />
Metropolitan <strong>Opera</strong>’s production of Boris Godunov. Sarah’s recent role<br />
debuts include Tisbe in La Cenerentola, Inez in Il Trovatore, Dorabella<br />
in Cosi fan tutte and Orlofsky in Die Fledermaus. Sarah earned her<br />
Master of Music degree from the University of Tennessee.<br />
Margaret O’Connell Carmen<br />
Margaret was called a “superb mezzo” by Fanfare Magazine for Traveling<br />
West w/North-South Records (Max Lifchitz). Upcoming: Nicklausse<br />
(Hoffmann) - Regina <strong>Opera</strong>. Premieres: Judgment of Midas<br />
(American <strong>Opera</strong> Projects); Agamemnon (La Mama); Ashley (Best<br />
Friends - w/Lauren Flanigan) Wendy Wasserstein’s libretto. Maddalena;<br />
Adalgisa; Dido; Mercedes; Dorabella; Florence (Albert Herring);<br />
Maman (L’Enfant); Cathleen (Riders to the Sea); Berta (Il Barbiere di<br />
Siviglia). <strong>The</strong>ater: Young Jennie (Portrait of Jennie – w/Brent Barrett);<br />
Fiddler Jones (Spoon River). Recordings: Lady Thiang, Aldonza<br />
(Stage-Stars); Mermaid (Bernstein’s Peter Pan) - Koch International.<br />
MM Voice, McGill University; BM Violin, Oberlin Conservatory.
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