Program - Krannert Center for the Performing Arts

assured acting.” (The Chautauquan Daily) During the prior season she sang the title role in Toscawith Opera Cleveland, and then joined the Austin Lyric Opera singing Wagner and Verdi selectionsin a Gala concert to mark the opening of their season. She sang Strauss’s Four Last Songs with theAustin Symphony and a program of Verdi selections with the Jacksonville Symphony.In the 2006-2007 season, Ms. Harris sang leading roles with opera companies across the continent,including the title role of Ariadne auf Naxos in a new production with the Utah Opera, and the titlerole of Norma with the Portland Opera, of which The Oregonian said “her 'Casta diva' had stillnessand poise, and she negotiated the subsequent coloratura with splendid fury.” Additionally, she sangLady MacBeth in Macbeth with both the Arizona Opera and Edmonton Opera, and Alice Ford inFalstaff with the Fort Worth Opera. On the concert stage she sang Daron Hagen’s Shining Brow withthe Buffalo Symphony, Strauss’s Four Last Songs with the New Haven Symphony, Schubert’s MassNo. 6 in E-flat with the Music of the Baroque with Jane Glover, and participated in a Gala Concertwith the Stichting Veerhavenconcert in Rotterdam with Joel Levy. She was also featured in recital atBrenau University in Atlanta.During the 2005 – 2006 season, Ms. Harris sang the title role of Vanessa with both the TeatroMassimo in Palermo, Italy and the Chautauqua Opera, the title role in Mercadante's Orazi e Curiaziwith Minnesota Opera, the title role of Norma with Michigan Opera Theatre, Katerina in LadyMacbeth of Mtsensk with Austin Lyric Opera, and Violetta in La Traviata with Fort Worth Opera.With Maestro Keith Lockhart at the podium, Ms. Harris was a soloist for Vaughan Williams's A SeaSymphony with the Utah Symphony.Notable highlights of previous seasons include portraying Vitellia in La Clemenza di Tito with theMetropolitan Opera, the title role of Agrippina, Donna Anna in Don Giovanni and Arminda in LaFinta Giardiniera all with the New York City Opera, Chrysothemis in Strauss' Elektra with AustinLyric Opera, both the title role in Agrippina and Donna Anna in Don Giovanni at the WashingtonNational Opera at the Kennedy Center, and the title role in Norma with the Minnesota Opera,Portland Opera and Michigan Opera Theatre. With the Atlanta Opera she was the Countess in LeNozze di Figaro, Donna Elvira and Donna Anna in Don Giovanni, Desdemona in Otello, Violetta in LaTraviata,and Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte. She has appeared with the Canadian Opera Company asAminta in Il Re Pastore, the Montreal Opera as Donna Anna, the Edmonton Opera as both DonnaAnna and the Countess in Le Nozze di Figaro, the Vancouver Opera as Rosalinda, and the title role ofNorma with the Opera de Quebec.In Europe, Ms. Harris has appeared in Spoleto, Italy as Eva in Die Meistersinger, with Opera du Rhinin Strasbourg as both Vitellia in La Clemenza di Tito and as the title role of Barber's Vanessa. On theconcert stage, she has performed as a soloist with the St. Louis Symphony, the Orchestra of St.Luke's, Chicago's Music of the Baroque, Honolulu Symphony, Buffalo Philharmonic, and Boston