Oberlin College and Conservatory

Guest Recital: Michelle Johnson, soprano (OCBMG)

Sunday, October 6, 2013 at 7:00pm to 9:00pm

Warner Concert Hall
77 West College Street, Oberlin, OH 44074

A guest recital sponsored by the Oberlin Black Musician's Guild featuring Michelle Johnson, soprano.

Tickets required: $3.00 on sale at Central Ticket Services and at the door prior to the concert.

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Soprano Michelle Johnson has been praised for her "extraordinary breath control and flawless articulation. Her voice is velvety and pliant - a dulcet dream." A highlight of Ms. Johnson's 2011/12 season was her debut with Opera Company of Philadelphia as the title role in Puccini's Manon Lescaut. The Philadelphia Inquirer acknowledged, "Johnson's singing has magnetic immediacy thanks to clean vocal lines and word coloring that made her singing speak in beautifully formed musical sentences, similar to young Renata Tebaldi." A graduate of the prestigious Academy of Vocal Arts in Philadelphia, she was seen as the title role of Suor Angelica, Leonora in Oberto, Donna Anna in Don Giovanni, the Countess in Capriccio, and Alice Ford in Falstaff.

In the spring and summer of 2012, Ms. Johnson made her debut with Glimmerglass Music Festival as Aida, and with Opera in the Heights as Leonora in Il Trovatore. During the 2012/13 season, she made her debut with Opera Santa Barbara as Aida, and performed Beethoven's 9th Symphony with Boston Philharmonic. She will also return this season to Houston's Opera in the Heights to sing Alice Ford in Falstaff, and she will make her debut at PORTopera singing Mimì in La Bohème. Future engagements also include a return to Opera Philadelphia for Donna Anna in Don Giovanni.

Noted for her successes in numerous vocal competitions, Ms. Johnson was a Grand Prize winner of the 2011 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions Winner; Top Prize and Grant Winner, William Matheus Sullivan Foundation; Second Place and Audience Favorite, Giargiari Bel Canto Competition, 2011; Grant, Licia Albanese-Puccini Foundation International Vocal Competition, 2011; First Prize, Gerda Lissner Foundation International Vocal Competition, 2011; Encouragement Award, George London Foundation Vocal Competition, 2011; Second Place, Giargiari Bel Canto Competition, 2009; Encouragement Award, Gerda Lissner Foundation International Vocal Competition, 2009; Finalist, Houston Grand Opera Eleanor McCollum Competition, 2007; Encouragement Award, Marilyn Horne Foundation, 2007; and the Jan de Gaetani Award, Orpheus National Vocal Competition, 2006.

 

 

Event Type

Master Class, Music

Departments

Vocal Studies, Academic, Conservatory of Music, Administrative

Cost

$3.00 through CTS and at the door

Contact Person

Michelle Ellison

Contact E-mail Address

Michelle.Ellison@oberlin.edu

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