Newcomer to the stage, young mezzo-soprano Eve Gigliotti is thrilling audiences with her rich, warm timbre, dynamic stage presence and easy vocal production. In the 2010-2011 season Miss Gigliotti will make her role debut as Isabella in L’italiana in Algieri at Southwest Opera and OLBE-ABAO Bilbao, she will make her Slovenia Opera Festival debut as Mother Marie in the Dialogues of Carmelites, she returns to the Metropolitan Opera as Mercedes in Carmen and Sigrune in Wagner’s Die Walküre and she will sing Verdi’s Requiem with Marin Aslop and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Last season, she made her Metropolitan Opera debut as Mercedes in the new production of Carmen, she performed Rossini’s Stabat Mater with the Oregon Symphony as well as Maria Aegyptiaca in Schumann's Scenes from Goethe's Faust with the American Symphony Orchestra at Avery Fischer Hall. She finished the season as Mrs. Hobs in Flora at Spoleto Festival USA. Future engagements include the world premiere of Dark Sisters by Nico Muhly at the Opera Company of Philadelphia and the role of Sigrune in Die Walküre at the Metropolitan Opera.
A graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music, this past summer Eve sang the role of Vera Boronel in Menottii’s The Consul at Glimmerglass Opera. Other roles performed include Carmen, Mother Marie in Dialogues of the Carmelites, The Mother in Amahl and the Night Visitors, and the Commere in Four Saints in Three Acts. This coming season Eve will Ms. Gigliotti was featured in the George London Masterclass Series with Frederica Von Stade and Richard Stilwell and was selected to sing for the Marilyn Horne Foundation Festival, “The Song Continues... 2009” on a Master Class with Martin Katz in Weill Hall. She was a finalist and received an honorable mention in the 2009 George London Foundation Competition, and an encouragement award in the 2009 Licia Albanese-Puccini Foundation Competition. Ms. Gigliotti is a past winner of The Palm Beach Opera Vocal Competition, The Joyce Dutka Arts Foundation, and a recipient of The McGlone Award from the Central City Opera House Association.
In her commitment to performing new work, Ms. Gigliotti has premiered pieces by Daniel Felsenfeld, Christian McLeer, Glen Cortese, Elena Ruehr, Martin Hennessy, and Joseph Summer and has recorded selections of Summer’s work on “Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day”, released on Albany Records. As a singing actress, she received critical acclaim for her hilarious and heart-wrenching turn as Angelina Rinucci, the ghost of opera-divas-past in world premiere of The Second Tosca, a play written by Tom Rowan and directed by Kevin Newbury at the 45th Street Theater in New York City. Ms. Gigliotti originated the title role in Encompass New Opera Theatre’s premiere of Gertrude Stein Invents A Jump Early On, where she received accolades in the New York Times, which described her performance as “earnest” and “endearing”. Furthering her commitment to new and experimental performance, Ms. Gigliotti sang as the castrato voice in the New York City live showing of Guy Maddin’s Brand Upon the Brain, with guest artist Isabella Rosselini and has toured with The Rich Grandeur of Boxing, a dramatic/movement performance art piece produced by artist Megan Murphy, to Seattle, Portland, and Paris.
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