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| Alison Bolshoi, soprano. | |
b i o g r a p h y...........back to roster....up April 2009 "Dramatic soprano Alison Bolshoi['s] … singing of Senta's Ballad from Wagner's Flying Dutchman was on the level of Rysanek, and her acting skill was quite apparent. Like Rysanek, Bolshoi seems a perfect voice for Verdi heroines and even possibly Puccini's Turandot. This American artist bears watching." -John Paul Keeter, The Register-Star, August 2006 "On stage, there were the master craftsmen ... soprano Alison Bolshoi, whose "Pace, pace mio Dio," from Verdi's La Forza del Destino," showed off a magnificent, large and complex voice and a stately grasp of emotional delivery." - Willa J. Conrad, Star Ledger, NJ, Wednesday, June 14, 2006. "Soprano Alison Bolshoi's rich voice reminded one of Helen Traubel. She sang Leonore's aria from Beethoven's 'Fidelio' more wonderfully than the artist that recently sang the role in a "Met" broadcast." - John Paul Keeter, The Register-Star, April 2006 American dramatic soprano Alison Bolshoi fulfills the Wagner and Verdi repertoire with a vocal radiance and lyricism seldom heard in large voices. This summer Ms. Bolshoi returns to the Cesky-Krumlov Festival as Foreign Princess in Dvorak’s Rusalka, a year after receiving critical acclaim as soprano soloist at that festival's Opening Gala Concert with the Prague Symphony. Also in 2008, Ms. Bolshoi appeared as the Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier with the Huntsville Symphony under Carlos Miguel Prieto. In 2006 Ms. Bolshoi gave a concert as part of the Bach to Bartok Festival with the Accademia Pianistica, in Imola, Italy. In 2005 she sang Leonore in a concert performance of Fidelio with One World Symphony, NY, and the same year was the soprano soloist for the Alfredo Silipigni Memorial Concert with the New Jersey State Opera at NJPAC. In 2004, Ms. Bolshoi made her debut at La Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona in a concert featuring excerpts from Strauss' Guntram, Reyer's Sigurd, and Schillings' Mona Lisa. Ms. Bolshoi also recently joined the roster of The San Francisco Opera to cover Senta in Der Fliegende Holländer. Ms. Bolshoi has sung many complete staged performances of Sieglinde, the Die Walküre Brünnhilde, and the Siegfried Brünnhilde, with the Wagner Festival Orchestra in New York, conducted by David Gilbert. She has also taken part in concerts with the company, singing the Senta/Dutchman duet and Brünnhilde from Götterdämmerung Act I. Ms. Bolshoi won the Liederkranz International Competition 2006, Wagner Section, and is receiving sponsorship by The American Wagner Association, NY, and The Wagner Association of America, Chicago. Ms. Bolshoi is also a winner of the Gerda Lissner Foundation Award, 2004; as well as generous grants from The Wagner Society of New York in 2002, 2004 and 2007.Ms. Bolshoi's background includes a degree in Theatre/Film and several years work as both a Shakespearean actress and musical theatre performer. She is a former student of Herbert Berghof Studios and Uta Hagen.
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