Juliana Gondek
Juliana Gondek Mezzo-soprano (Updated August 2012 – please discard any previous versions) Juliana Gondek has performed in the world's most celebrated opera houses, concert halls, and festivals throughout a 35-year international singing career. She has collaborated with such musical luminaries as Herbert von Karajan, Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland, Rudolf Serkin, James Levine, Carlos Kleiber, Nicholas McGegan, and Yehudi Menuhin. She's performed leading operatic roles at the Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Seattle Opera, New York City Opera, Dallas Opera, the Netherlands Opera, the Edinburgh Festival, the Göttingen and Halle Handel Festivals, Antibe's Festival de Bel Canto, the Pacific Music Festival (Sapporo, Japan), Lincoln Center's Mostly Mozart Festival, and at Washington's Kennedy Center. The extraordinary beauty, versatility, technical mastery, and range of her voice, coupled with a rare intelligence, artistry, and expressiveness, have enabled her to move freely through an astonishing breadth of operatic repertoire. Ms. Gondek has been hailed as one of her generation's finest singing-actors, and for her impassioned portrayals of such varied roles as Ginevra in Handel's Ariodante, Vitellia in La Clemenza di Tito, all the heroines in The Tales of Hoffmann and the title roles in Rossini's Bianca e Falliero, Bellini's Beatrice di Tenda, Verdi's Giovanna d'Arco, and Bizet's Carmen. She has twenty additional Handel roles to her credit, including Alcina, Theodora, Rodelinda, Cleopatra, Zenobia (Radamisto), Gismonda (Ottone), Galatea, Michal (Saul), and Fortuna (Giustino). Other operatic roles include Mozart heroines Countess Almaviva, Donna Elvira, Fiordiligi, Pamina and 1st Lady, Aspasia in Mitridate, Verdi heroines Gulnara (Il Corsaro) and Marchesa del Poggio (Un Giorno di Regno), Mimi in La Boheme, Rosalinde in Die Fledermaus, and Pat Nixon (Nixon in China).
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