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Elizabeth Reiter, Soprano

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Elizabeth Reiter, Soprano

Biography

Equally comfortable with classical and contemporary operatic repertoire, American soprano Elizabeth Reiter’s “rich and silvery” voice (Boston Globe) and “impressive musical polish” (Opera News) have already prompted comparison to a “young Roberta Peters (who) is fully ready for any professional stage” (David Shengold, Philadelphia City Paper).

In the 2011-12 season, the young soprano joins the studio programme at Oper Frankfurt, where she will make her debut this fall as Annina in La Traviata. Additionally, she makes her debut with Opera Memphis as Adele/Die Fledermaus and returns to the Opera Company of Philadelphia as Blonde/Die Entführung aus dem Serail.

Under the tutelage of Marlena Malas, Elizabeth recently completed her graduate studies in opera at The Curtis Institute of Music where her credits included the title role/The Cunning Little Vixen, the title role/La Sonnambula, Corinna/Il viaggio a Reims, and Zerlina/Don Giovanni. Other recent opera performances include Zerlina under the baton of Maestro James Levine (Tanglewood Music Center), La libellule/L'Enfant et les Sortilèges with Maestro Lorin Maazel (Castleton Festival), Amor/Orphée et Eurydice (Opera Company of Philadelphia), Susanna/Le Nozze di Figaro and Despina/Così fan tutte (Chautauqua Institution), Blonde/Die Entführung aus dem Serail (Teatri SpA di Treviso, Italy), Belinda/Dido and Aeneas (Manhattan School of Music), and Flora/The Turn of the Screw (Chicago Opera Theater, Aspen Opera Theater Center).

A frequent interpreter of new music, Ms. Reiter has performed the roles of Aphrodite in HW Henze's Phaedra with the Opera Company of Philadelphia (American premiere), Adele in Michael Berkeley's Jane Eyre with Opera Theatre of Saint Louis (American premiere), and Young Maria Celeste in the world premiere of Philip Glass and Mary Zimmerman's Galileo Galilei with Chicago's Goodman Theatre, Brooklyn Academy of Music, and London's Barbican Center. Apart from the opera stage, Elizabeth has collaborated with composer Libby Larsen on her Songs from Letters at the Ravinia Music Festival and with composer André Previn on his Sallie Chisum remembers Billy the Kid both at the Tanglewood Music Center and in a televised performance in Tokyo with the composer at the piano.

On the concert stage, Ms. Reiter has been heard as soprano soloist in Weill's Royal Palace at the Bard Music Festival with the American Symphony Orchestra, Mozart's Requiem with the Curtis Sinfonietta, Vaughan Williams’ Dona Nobis Pacem with the Chautauqua Music Festival Orchestra, and Mahler's Symphony No. 4 with the Manhattan School of Music Philharmonia. She has also sung the role of Cupid in Purcell’s King Arthur with Chicago’s Music of the Baroque under the baton of Music Director Jane Glover and has appeared as Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro for the Chautauqua Theatre Company's production of Amadeus with both the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra and the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra under JoAnn Falletta. As a recitalist, Ms. Reiter has collaborated with such artists as André Previn, Craig Rutenberg, Warren Jones, and Mikael Eliasen in such venues as Carnegie Hall, the Ravinia Music Festival, the Tanglewood Music Festival, and Tokyo's NHK Studio.

The 2011 First Prize Winner of the Liederkranz Competition Lieder/Art Song Division, Ms. Reiter has also received awards from the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, the Lotte Lenya Competition, and the Mario Lanza Competition. She received her undergraduate degree from the Manhattan School of Music, with additional studies at the Tanglewood Music Center, Aspen Music Festival, the Chautauqua Institution, and as a Gerdine Young Artist with the Opera Theatre of Saint Louis. Originally from Chicago, Elizabeth received her earliest operatic training as a member of the children’s chorus with the Lyric Opera of Chicago.


Performances by Elizabeth Reiter

Composer Title Date Action
Richard Strauss Wie erkenn' ich mein Treulieb vor andern nun?, from Ophelia-Lieder, op. 67 09/24/2011 Play Add to playlist
Richard Strauss Sie trugen ihn auf der Bahre bloss, from Ophelia-Lieder, op. 67 09/24/2011 Play Add to playlist
Richard Strauss Ophelia-Lieder, op. 67 09/24/2011 Play Add to playlist
Richard Strauss Guten Morgen,'s ist Sankt Valentinstag, from Ophelia-Lieder, op. 67 09/24/2011 Play Add to playlist
Libby Larsen So like your father’s, from Songs from Letters 09/26/2011 Play Add to playlist
Libby Larsen He never misses, from Songs from Letters 09/26/2011 Play Add to playlist
Libby Larsen A man can love two women, from Songs from Letters 09/26/2011 Play Add to playlist
Libby Larsen A working woman, from Songs from Letters 09/26/2011 Play Add to playlist
Libby Larsen All I have, from Songs from Letters 09/26/2011 Play Add to playlist

Elizabeth Reiter Concerts

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