Possessing a rich, dark-toned
voice, Mexican-American soprano Caprice Corona has been making her
dramatic presence felt on opera and
concert stages in the Unites States and in Europe. Hailed
as a “riveting tour-de-force”, her wide range and musical intelligence
enables her to tackle such diverse challenges as Alban Berg's Lulu Suite (Aldeburgh
Festival 2006), Benjamin Britten's Russian
song cycle Ekho Poeta (Aldeburgh Festival & Aix-en-Provence
Festival 2006), the
cover assignment of dramatic soprano Christine Brewer in
Britten’s Gloriana (Opera
Theatre of Saint Louis 2005) and the
cover assignment of mezzo-soprano Vesselina Kasarova in
Donizetti's rarely performed Dom
Sébastien (Opera Orchestra of New York 2006).
She has gained recognition for her performances in the operas of
Mozart, Britten and contemporary American composers, portraying the
roles of Donna Anna in Don Giovanni
for Pacific
Repertory Opera, Donna Elvira in Don
Giovanni for Amarillo
Opera,
Helena in A Midsummer Night’s Dream
for Central
City Opera, Governess in excerpts from
The Turn of the Screw for The
Santa Fe Opera, Lady Billows (cover)
in Gotham
Chamber Opera's Albert
Herring, Magda Sorel in The
Consul with the Bronx
Opera and
the title role in Naomi in the
Living Room, a chamber opera by American composer, Jonathan
Bailey Holland, for the New Gallery Concert Series in
Boston. More recently Ms. Corona has begun to explore the
Italianate repertoire, appearing as Alice Ford in Amarillo Opera's Falstaff (2006) and Desdemona
(cover) in Rossini's Otello
for Opera Orchestra of New York
(2007).
Ms. Corona appears frequently in concert and is a strong
advocate of contemporary music. She made her Carnegie Hall
recital debut as the winner of the 2003 International
Opera Singers Competition in a program of all 20th- and
21st-century repertoire, where she presented the world premiere of Jonathan Bailey Holland's song
cycle, Songs of Experience. More
recently, she made her debut at Avery
Fisher Hall as the soprano soloist in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony with the
Metropolitan Youth Orchestra. Ms. Corona
has been heard at the Marlboro Music
Festival,
the Edinburgh Fringe Festival,
the Steans
Institute for Singers at the Ravinia
Festival and at the Tanglewood
Music Center and has concertized
extensively in the United States and Europe. Ms. Corona’s
performance of Berg’s Lulu Suite
with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra,
Thomas Adès conducting,
was featured on BBC Radio’s “Performance on 3”
program, and she can be heard as the soprano soloist in James Yannatos’ Symphonies Sacred and Secular on Albany
Records. She recently appeared as a guest artist with
Boston's highly acclaimed new music group Firebird
Ensemble, and in March 2007 she made
her Wigmore
Hall recital debut in an all-Wolf program with Roger
Vignoles.
Ms. Corona is a Lee
Schaenen
Foundation Career Grant Winner, a winner of the Boston District
Metropolitan
Opera National Council Auditions, a winner of the
Liederkranz
Vocal Competition (Opera Division), an Opera
Index, Inc. Encouragement Grant Award Winner and was
invited to compete in the 2006 ARD competition in Munich,
Germany. She has also
received awards from
organizations such as the
Fritz
and Lavinia Jensen Foundation,
the Connecticut
Alliance for Music, Joyce
Dutka Arts Foundation and Opera at Florham Guild, among
others. Most recently, Ms. Corona was nominated for a 2007 Royal Philharmonic
Society Music Award in the Young Artist Category.
A native of Sacramento, California, Ms. Corona graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University
with a Bachelor of Arts in Music and Anthropology and received two
Master of Music degrees from the New
England Conservatory. She and her husband,
tenor Erik Nelson
Werner, recently welcomed their first child Frida Angelika into the
world and are on temporary hiatus from their performing careers to
enjoy their newest roles as first-time parents.
Last updated June 13, 2008
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