Artist Biographies
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ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES Garnett Bruce, co-producer, Emilie Garnett Bruce has had an active directing career at national opera houses including Chicago Lyric, Cleveland, Houston, Dallas, San Diego, San Francisco, Washington, D.C., and Wolf Trap and also abroad in Vancouver and the Teatro San Carlo in Naples. He has served on the sta of the Santa Fe Opera and since 1993 at the Aspen Music Festival and School. Bruce has assisted such figures as Harold Prince, Leonard Bernstein, David Hockney, and, on a continuing basis, Francesca Zambello. Born in Washington, D.C., Bruce sang for five years as a choirboy at the Washington National Cathedral, and received a continuing faculty appointment in 2006 following three productions as a guest artist. Bruce earned a bachelor’s degree cum laude at Tufts University. Elizabeth Futral, co-producer, Emilie Elizabeth Futral is in her third year on the voice faculty at Peabody. As one of the world’s leading sopranos, she has embraced a repertoire that ranges from the Baroque to world premieres. In 2011 she sang the American premiere of Emilie at the Spoleto Festival. She has collaborated with the great conductors of our time including Zubin Mehta, Claudio Abbado, Sir Colin Davis, Daniel Barenboim, Sir Charles Mackerras, Loren Maazel, Michael Tilson Thomas, and Sir Neville Marriner. She has been acclaimed for her performances in the world’s leading opera houses, including the Metropolitan Opera, Covent Garden, Deutsche Oper Berlin, San Francisco, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Theatre an der Wien. Futral has appeared with the Berlin Philharmonic, London Symphony, New York Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony, Israel Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, London Philharmonic, Hannover Band, Boston Symphony, Munich Radio Orchestra, and many others. Reared in Louisiana, Futral studied with Virginia Zeani at Indiana University. She joined the Lyric Opera Center for American Artists at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, won the Metropolitan Opera National Council auditions in 1991, and was catapulted to stardom with critically acclaimed performances of Delibes’ Lakmé at the New York City Opera in 1994. Career milestones include a win in Placido Domingo’s Operalia Competition, the title role in Rossini’s Matilde di Shabran in Pesaro, her debut at the San Francisco Opera as Stella in the world premiere of André Previn’s A Streetcar Named Desire, and her Metropolitan Opera debut in a new production of Lucia di Lammermoor. Since that time she has returned to the Metropolitan Opera as Princess Eudoxie in a new production of La Juive, Princess Yeuyang in the world premiere of Tan Dun’s The First Emperor, Elvira in I Puritani, and additional performances of Lucia. With the Lyric Opera of Chicago she has sung a vast range of roles including Cunegonde in Candide, Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro, Handel’s Partenope, La Traviata, and The Merry Widow. She has notable relationships with the Washington, Houston, Santa Fe, Los Angeles, New York City, Vancouver, and Minnesota opera companies. Internationally, she has been heard at the Royal Opera Covent Garden, the Bayerische Staatsoper, Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Theater an der Wien, the Grand Theatre de Genève, the Gran Teatre del Liceu, and Hamburg Staatsoper. 3.