| Daniella Carvalho |
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Daniella Carvalho, soprano, is a native of Rio
de
Janeiro, Brazil. She
received her Masters and Bachelors Degrees in voice from Manhattan
School of
Music. Her performances
include: Gretel in Hansel und Gretel,
Suor Angelica in Suor Angelica,
reviewed as “the soprano Daniella Carvalho brought a superb,
creamy
voice and heartfelt acting to the role, portraying the nun’s grief
and
love for her son. With Carvalho at stage center singing her farewell to
her
son, the last ten minutes of the opera were deeply moving”, Cio Cio San in Madama Butterfly, in which she was
acclaimed by Diario de las Americas as "a triumph.. magical vocal
and
scenic performance...she is a lyric spinto, to which the exigencies of
Butterfly fit perfectly...high notes of delicious
sonority...especial expressivity to the most emotional moments". She has also
performed Nedda in I Pagliacci,
Mimi in La
Bohème, Countess in Le
Nozze di Figaro, Donna Elvira in Don
Giovanni, 2nd Lady
in Die Zauberflöte, Manuela in the
Zarzuela Luis Alonso, Cora Lee
in Bake Shop Ghost, Pure Maud in
Maud
Powell, Giggly Girl in Aesop’s
Fables, Belinda in Dido and Aeneas ,
Micaela in Carmen, Geraldine in A Hand of Bridge.
As scenes she performed Tatiana in Eugene
Onegin, the title role of Rusalka,
Blanche in Dialogues
of the Carmelites, Suzel in L'Amico
Fritz, Liu in Turandot, the title role of Ariadne
auf Naxos, Violeta in La
Traviata. Her
Oratorio and Concert appearances
include the Brazilian Premire of Luonnotar
by Sibelius at the
National Thetare, Mahler’s Songs of a
Wayfarer with the New
York Repertory Orchestra, Samuel Barber’s Knoxville, Summer of 1915 with the
Illinois Symphony Orchestra, as the soprano soloist in Pergolesi's Stabat
Mater, Vivaldi's Gloria,
Strawinsky's Cantata,
Britten’s Rejoice in the Lamb,
also transmitted on TVE in Brazil,
Vivaldi’s Magnificat and
Scarlatti’s Salve Regina. Her New
York Debut Recital as
a Winner of the Artists International at Weill Hall, Carnegie Hall, was
in February
2003, and again at their Alumni Series in February 2005. Some
of the conductors with whom she has
worked include Ira Levin, Steven Osgood, Silvio Barbato, Will
Crutchfield; and
has participated in master classes with such artists as Mya Besslik,
Maria
Venutti, Helen Donath, Silvia Stone and Charles Ricker. Daniella
has
appeared on stages in Milan, Rome, Salzburg , the United States, and
Brazil;
and on Radio Stations such as WNYC and Columbia University Radio, both
in New
York, and Radio MEC, Jornal do Brazil, and Cultura in Brazil. Future engagements include Suzel in L’Amico
Fritz with
Miami Lyric Opera and recitals in Brazil. |