Aleksandra Romano mezzo-soprano
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ROLES PERFORMED Second Lady The Magic Flute Glimmerglass Festival 2015 Dinah Trouble in Tahiti Glimmerglass Festival 2015 Marzia (cover) Catone in Utica Glimmerglass Festival 2015 Angelina (cover) La cenerentola Washington National Opera 2015 Sister Mathilde Dialogues of the Carmelites Washington National Opera 2015 The Fox The Little Prince Washington National Opera 2014 Sondra Finchley (cover) An American Tragedy Glimmerglass Festival 2014 Kate Pinkerton (cover) Madama Butterfly Glimmerglass Festival 2014 Angelina La cenerentola Yale Opera 2014 Cherubino (scenes) Le nozze di Figaro Yale Opera 2013 Rosina (cover – performed) Il Barbiere di Siviglia Central City Opera 2013 Laura Iolanta Yale Opera 2013 Romeo I Capuleti e i Montecchi Yale Opera 2013 Despina Cosí fan tutte Connecticut Lyric Opera 2012 Nicklausse (cover) Les contes d’Hoffmann Wolf Trap Opera 2011
CONCERT & ORATORIO Soloist Cinco canciones negras Yale Philharmonia 2015 Alto Gloria (Vivaldi) Cathedral Choral Society 2015 Alto Messiah (Handel) Voices of Cooperstown 2011, 2013 Alto Messiah (Handel) Waterbury Symphony 2012 Alto Exaudiat te Dominus (Lully) Voices of Cooperstown 2012
AWARDS & COMPETITIONS First Place Amici Competition Opera Theater of Connecticut 2014 Phyllis Curtin Career Entry Prize Yale School of Music 2014 First Prize Winner Woolsey Competition Yale School of Music 2014 Encouragement Award Mid-Atlantic Regional Finals MONC Auditions 2014 John and Ginny Starkey Award Central City Opera 2013
TRAINING AND EDUCATION Resident Artist Domingo-Cafritz YAP Washington National Opera 2014-2015 Young Artist Glimmerglass Festival Glimmerglass Festival 2014, 2015 Master of Music Yale Opera Yale School of Music 2012-2014 Apprentice Artist Bonfils-Stanton YAP Central City Opera 2013 Studio Artist Wolf Trap Studio Wolf Trap Opera 2011, 2012 Bachelor of Liberal Arts Bard College 2006-2010
TEACHERS COACHES DIRECTORS CONDUCTORS Patricia McCaffrey Michael Heaston Francesca Zambello Speranza Scappucci Diana Soviero Christopher Devlin Marc Verzatt Nimrod Pfeffer Doris Yarick-Cross Timothy Shaindlin Tara Faircloth Nicole Paiement
RELATED SKILLS Intermediate Italian, studied German and Spanish, 10+ years violin