Sharon Azrieli
soprano

 


personal website:

www.SharonAzrieli.com

Bill Schuman, the noted "Vocal Guardian" of such great singers as Aprille Millo and Marcello Giordani, has taken Ms. Azrieli under his wing, and over the past year, she has added the great Verdi heroines to her repertoire. Hailed as the next true Verdiana, Ms. Azrieli is ready to portray Aida, Leonora (La Forza del Destino), Amelia (Ballo) and Leonora (Il Trovatore). She has also prepared Madama Butterfly, Tosca, and Manon Lescaut.

Ms. Azrieli’s recently portrayed Liu in Puccini's Turandot with the New Israel Opera. She also sang the 2nd Soprano Soloist in the Mahler Eighth Symphony with the National Orchestra of Canada, and is in popular demand for many varied concerts across Canada, in New York City, and  in Israel.

With the Canadian Opera Company, Ms. Azrieli  portrayed Juliette (Romeo and Juliette)  and  Mimì (La Bohème). Other roles include Susanna (Le Nozze di Figaro) with the Sarasota Opera, and Adriana Lecouvreur (cover) for L'Opera de Paris a la Bastille, and Elvira (Don Giovanni) with the Vermont Opera Festival. She received glowing praise for her portayal of Rachel in (La Juive by Halevy), Laurette (Dr. Miracle) with L’Opéra Français de New York, and Nedda (I Pagliacci) with the New York Opera Theatre.

Sharon Azrieli has performed many varied works of Sacred Music. Her favourite is the Verdi Requiem, which she sang recently with the New West Symphony in Los Angeles. She sang the Soprano Solo in the Stabat Mater of Dvorak under the direction of Jean Francois Rivest with the University of Montreal Orchestra and Chorus, the Mass in C Minor by Beethoven, as well as Rossini’s Stabat Mater. Ms. Azrieli has concertized extensively around the world, bringing to life opera arias and a large collection of songs by Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninov. Her concerts with major symphonies include the Jerusalem Symphony, the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, the Haifa Symphony, the Israel Cameri Orchestra and the McGill Chamber Orchestra.

A native Montrealer, Ms. Azrieli is a graduate of Vassar College, the Juilliard School, and l'Université de Montréal. She speaks many languages. Her many awards and prizes include: First Prize: the Canadian Women’s Club Competition, Concert Finalist in the Luciano Pavarotti International Vocal Competition, District Winner of the Metropolitan Opera Auditions and  recipient of a Metropolitan Opera study grant.

 

 

REPERTOIRE
OPERA

BIZET

Laurette - Le Docteur Miracle

CILEA
Adriana Lecouvreur - Adrianna Lecouvreur

GOUNOD
Juliette - Roméo et Juliette

HALEVY
Rachel - La Juive

LEONCAVALLO
Nedda - Pagliacci

MOZART
Elvira - Don Giovanni
Susanna & Countess - Le Nozze di Figaro

OFFENBACH
Antonia - Les Contes d'Hoffmann
Hélène - La Belle Hélène

PUCCINI
Cio Cio San - Madama Butterfly
Liu - Turandot
Manon - Manon Lescaut
Mimi - La Bohème
Tosca - Tosca

VERDI
Aida - Aida
Leonora - Il Trovatore

CONCERT

BACH
St. John Passion

BEETHOVEN
Mass in C Minor

BERNSTEIN
Songfest

DVORAK
Stabat Mater

ROSSINI
Stabat Mater

VERDI
Requiem

VILLA-LOBOS
Bachianas Brasileiras

ENGAGED BY:

Amato Opera (New York)
Atlanta Bach Chorale
Atlanta Opera
Banff Centre
Canadian Opera Company
Haifa Symphony
Houston Grand Opera
Israel Cameri Orchestra
Israel Vocal Arts Institute

Jerusalem Symphony
L’Op
éra de Paris, Bastille
L’Op
éra Francais de New York
McGill Chamber Orchestra
New West Symphony
Sarasota Opera
Southeastern Savoyards
Universit
é de Montréal Choir and Orchestra
Vermont Opera Festival

 

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