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Soloists: Soprano Jurate Svedaite has received Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Opera and Vocal Performance from the Lithuanian Music Academy while also attending the Detmold Music Academy in Germany. She has performed throughout Europe and the United States with the Lithuanian National Chamber Orchestra, the European Baroque Festival Opera, the Connecticut Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra and Salt Marsh Opera, among many others. Ms. Svedaite’s operatic roles include Marguerite inFaust,Adine in L’Elisir d’Amore, Tatyana in Eugene Onegin, Mother in Amahl and the Night Visotors and others. She is the grand-daughter of one of Lithuania’s most revered traditional composers and arrangers, Jonas Svedas. Ms. Svedaite resides in Southeastern Connecticut. Mezzo Soprano Valerie Nicolosi has enjoyed a dynamic operatic career around the country and the globe. She has received critical acclaim for leading operatic roles with a variety of regional opera companies around the country. A favorite for pants roles, she has sung the role of Cherubino in Le Nozze Di Figaro with Abilene Opera, Knoxville Opera, and Dayton Opera. She continues to sing leading and supporting roles with various opera companies around the United States. Roles include Dorabella in Cosi Fan Tutte, Rosina in Barber of Seville, Angelina in La Cenerentola, Hermia and Oberon in Midsummer Night’s Dream, Hansel in Hansel and Gretel, Olga in Eugene Onegin, Zerlina in Don Giovanni, Suzuki in Madame Butterfly, Stephano in Roméo et Juliette, La Ciesca and Zita in Gianni Schicchi, and Cupid in Orpheus and the Underworld. Miss Nicolosi is a Liederkranz Competition finalist and prize winner, and was awarded the Richard F. Gold Career Grant for Young Singers. She has appeared as a soloist with the Indian Hill Symphony, Knoxville Symphony, Chattanooga Symphony, Rhode Island Civic Chorale and Orchestra, Hartford Festival Orchestra, St. Alban's Symphonia, and the Boston Ballet. She is also well-known for her inventive song recital programs which make the classical song repertoire more accessible to contemporary audiences and are popular on a wide variety of venues around the United States. Tenor, Michael Wade Lee,This year, makes his international debut singing Don Jose in Carmen with the Greek National Opera, then performs a concert with the Czech National Orchestra in Zlin, conducted by Peter Tiboris. Later this summer, he again sings Don Jose in Chautauqua, and then Mario Cavaradossi in Tosca in Houston, Texas. He recently the Mozart Requiem at Carnegie Hall and was the 1st Guest in Dargomyszky's The Stone Guest at Avery-Fisher Hall. He was the Duke in Rigoletto with Opera In The Heights in Houston, TX, and with Connecticut Lyric Opera. He has performed with the San Francisco Opera Symphony and American Symphony Orchestra, as well as at Merkin Hall and Alice Tully Hall. He has sung a variety of roles including, Turiddu in Cavalleria Rusticana, Der Hauptmen in Wozzeck, Grivet in Therese Raquin, Raymond Pocket in Miss Havisham's Fire, and the Male Chorus in Britten's The Rape Of Lucretia. Mr. Lee hails from San Antonio, Texas and now makes his home in New York. Bass-baritone Laurentiu Rotaru is a native of Romania currently residing in Hartford, and he is a Master of Music student at University of Connecticut. He performed as Leporello in Don Giovanni, Sparafucile in Rigoletto, Zuniga in Carmen, Don Basilio in Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Mephistopheles in Faust, Sarastro in The Magic Flute with Connecticut Lyric Opera, Achillas in Julius Caesar in Egypt whith Opera Theater of Connecticut,Il Comandatore in Don Giovanni with The Conservatory of Bucharest, Mr. Jenks in The Tender Land by Aaron Copland with Queens College of New York, and as Dr. Grenvil in La Traviata. He started his intensive music training at The Conservatory of Bucharest – Romania.
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March 31, 2007, 7pm, holy cross church, new britain