Birgit Fioravante Soprano

Email:  diva@duellingdivas.com

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Performance Highlights and Reviews

Opera and Oratorio:

• The role of Fricka, as well as the cover for Eva Marton's Brünnhilde, in scenes from Wagner's Ring with the Opera Orchestra of New York at Carnegie Hall.
  
  
• Soprano soloist in Verdi's Requiem with the Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra, recorded and broadcast on NPR.
  
  
• Lady Macbeth in Verdi's Macbeth, as well as the title role from Strauss' Ariadne auf Naxos, as Deborah Voigt's cover for the Florida Grand Opera.
  
  
• Mezzo soloist in Mahler's Resurrection Symphony with famed Mahler scholar Gilbert Kaplan conducting at the University of Miami.
  
  
• Rezia in a New York production of Webers' Oberon, about which Jack Heimenz of Musical America wrote, "[Birgit Fioravante] applied her magnificent plummy soprano to the opera's best known number ['Ozean du Ungeheuer'] and brought down the house."
  
  
• La suora zelatrice in the FGO production of Puccini's Suor Angelica with Diana Soviero in the title role.   The Miami Herald said, "the singing is radiant… Birgit Fioravante is the severe monitoring sister to the bone, chastising her charges with vehemence."
  
  
• Soloist in concert of Bach cantatas at Festival Miami.  Tim Smith of the Sun Sentinel wrote, "and when [Julianne] Baird and Birgit Fioravante melded voices for the duet 'Wir eilen mit schwachen...' this was pure musical magic."
  
  
• Arminda in Mozart's La Finta Giardiniera at New York's Vineyard Theater.  The Villager said that Birgit's "full ravishing soprano made her performance as the proud-spirited Arminda spellbinding," and Opera Digest stated that Birgit "handles her big lyric voice with impressive confidence."
  
  
• Soprano soloist in Les Noces, Stravinsky's visionary choral work for four pianists, percussion and soloists with Robert Craft conducting.
  
  

Recitals and Chamber Music:

• Mezzo soloist in Jacob Druckman's Dark upon the Harp with conductor Arthur Weisberg and the Miami Brass Quintet, for which she received this review: "Soprano Birgit Fioravante handles these extremely difficult atonal works with great expertise and flawless intonation."
  
  
• Sponsored by the New York Wagner Society for performances of Wesendonk Lieder.
  
  
• Recipient of the Kirsten Flagstad Memorial Grant, largely for her interpretations of Edvard Grieg’s songs.
  
  
• Concert of Mahler songs for Miami's Mainly Mozart Festival, for which she received this review from The Sun Sentinel: "…Fioravante sang the seldom-heard Mahler lieder with profound commitment and grasp of their quicksilver moods and text…   [She] gave each song eloquent breadth and dark tone.  …Fioravante ought to try more of this exquisite repertoire.  It suits her.  She effectively conveyed the strange mix of emotions and imagery that makes the Wunderhorn collection so special."
  
  
• Kirsten Flagstad Festival in Hamar, Norway.  Of her performances at this annual event, Stangeavisa wrote, "Soprano Birgit Fioravante gave a brilliant concert for the Kirsten Flagstad Festival," and the Hamar Arbeideblad wrote, "Saturday's concert opened with four songs of Edvard Grieg, with Ved Rondane being the high point.  With her rich and expressive instrument, Fioravante performed this beautiful song with great meaning."
  
  

The Upcoming Season:

Birgit will be touring with her "rival diva" Wendy Reynolds, together with pianist Dr. Heather Coltman (a.k.a. "Paige Turner") in a full-production evening of opera entitled Duelling Divas, an entertaining, loving tribute to the art and personality of the opera diva.    In the words of Ocala Magazine, "[Duelling Divas] has become an inspired stand-out in operatic theater."

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