Rachel Rosales, Voice
Rosales, a soprano, has achieved both popular and critical acclaim on international stages in opera, oratorio, and solo recitals. Highlights of the current (2003-04) season include performances of Messiah and Dvorák's Stabat Mater with the Hartford Chorale and Symphony, recital/concerts of 19th century salon music with fortepiano and 19th century guitars and New York Premiere of "Songs of Eternity," composed by Behzad Ranjbaran for soprano, Renée Fleming, in the Sacred Music in a Sacred Space series, Kent Tritle, conductor. Recently she performed Donna Anna with Opera Illinois' Don Giovanni and the Brahms Requiem with Johannes Somary-Fairfield County Chorale, on the Sacred Music in a Sacred Space series and with Dennis Keene and the Voices of Ascension. During the summer she rejuvenated Clérambault's Medée and Il Duello Amoroso (a fully staged production of Handel cantatas) with The American Virtuosi Baroque Opera Theater with gala performances in Newport and New York City. With the American Symphony Orchestra-Bard Festival Orchestra, Leon Botstein conductor, she has performed scenes from Charpentier's Louise, Janácek's The Adventures of Mr. Broucek and, most recently, Epitaffio No. 1 by Luigi Nono on the Great Performers series at Lincoln Center-Avery Fisher Hall. Distinguished conductors and stage directors that she has worked with include Scott Bergeson, Sarah Caldwell, Sergiu Comissiona, Christopher Keene, Jay Lesenger, Lotfi Mansouri, Fabio Mechetti, Roger Nierenberg, and Francesca Zambello. She participated in the Wall-to-Wall Bernstein concert broadcast live on WNYC from Symphony Space. BA, Arizona State University; MFA, The Juilliard School. She has taught at Bennington since 2003.
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