Elaine Bonazzi

Mezzo Soprano

Member Bio

More operatic premieres than any living American singer. Leading roles: NYC Opera, Metropolitan Opera at The Forum, Dallas, Netherlands, Washington, San Francisco, Santa Fe, St. Louis, Glimmerglass, Berlin Festival, Spoleto Festival, Edmonton, Mexico City. Soloist: NY Philharmonic, Boston, Baltimore, Cleveland, Philadelphia, Montreal, Minnesota Orchestras. Recordings: Columbia, Vanguard, Nonesuch, Vox-Candide, CRI, Grenadilla, Library of Congress. TV: PBS, CBS, ABC, NBC. Currently Artist-in-Residence: SUNY, Stony Brook. Private NYC Studio

Current Activities

April 19, 2003 Conducts a master class at Birmingham Southern College.

Member recordings

New CD's re-released from previous LP originals: Ned Rorem "Serenade on English Poems", for Mezzo Soprano and Piano. Quartet with the Cantilena Chamber Players, Grenadilla Records, Spring 2001 and Handel's "Semele" with Beverly Sills. Cleveland Orchestra, Robert Shaw, Conductor House of Open Records

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