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Tracy Dahl, coloratura-soprano |
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b i o g r a p h y...........back to roster....up September 2009 With her 2006 debut at La Scala as Zerbinetta in Ariadne auf Naxos, Canada’s premier coloratura soprano Tracy Dahl has taken another milestone in a career that has brought her together with such opera houses as the Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Canadian Opera Company, and the Chatelet in Paris, to name a few. Her "superlative coloratura" (Globe and Mail), "deliciously accurate, stratospheric" (Opera), is regularly singled out by critics. "Her extreme high notes, and she threw in a lot of them, are easy and spectacular." (Boston Globe). She has "a voice filled with sunshine, rainbows and laser light" according to Opera Magazine and the San Francisco Chronicle finds her "bright, sparkling, and bouncing, accurate and winning." "Where pure, well-tuned, characterful, and seemingly easy acrobatics through two and a half octaves are required, Dahl is among a relative few who can do it all superlatively well," comments the Calgary Herald. Dahl’s 2009/10 season starts with Rigoletto (Gilda) at Edmonton Opera, before she takes part in the Golden Anniversary Concert and Gala of the Vancouver Opera only to return later to the house as Mme Mao in a production of Nixon in China. On the orchestra front, she appears with the Vancouver Symphony in Mahler’s 8th Symphony, returns to Monterey Symphony for an evening of opera arias, sings selections from Nixon in China with Phoenix Symphony, and performs Messiah with Charlotte Symphony. During 2008/09, Dahl portrayed Zerbinetta in Ariadne auf Naxos with Calgary Opera and Cunegonde in Candide with Manitoba Opera. She also performed oratorio works with the Winnipeg Symphony and the Portland Symphony. Season 07/08 started off with Carmina Burana at the International Cesky Crumlov Festival with the Prague Radio Symphony, followed by a re-invitation to Houston Grand Opera as Mme Mao in John Adams’ Nixon in China, a role she later repeated with Colorado Opera. Other commitments brought her to Calgary Opera as Gilda in Rigoletto, Arizona Opera in Lucia di Lammermoor in the title role, and a opera gala evening with the Monterey Symphony. Dahl began her 06/07 season with the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra in Mozart’s C minor Mass, followed by a tour across Mexico with the Xalapa Symphony under Carlos Miguel Prieto in Bach’s Christmas Oratorio. Later that season, she returned to Vancouver Opera as Zerbinetta in Ariadne auf Naxos. 2005/06 was a banner season for Tracy Dahl. In addition to her La Scala debut, she sang the title role in Lucie de Lammermoor with Boston Lyric Opera, then gave a recital at Opera Ontario before appearing with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra under Jeffrey Kahane. Other engagements brought her to the Phoenix Symphony in Handel’s Messiah, the Portland Opera in Adams’ Nixon in China, and the Orchestre Symphonique de Quebec under Bernard Labadie. Among her many notable debuts at major opera houses figure Adele in Die Fledermaus at the Metropolitan Opera (later returning as Zerbinetta and as Florestine in the world premiere and revival productions of The Ghosts of Versailles), as Olympia in the San Francisco Opera production of Les Contes d’Hoffmann opposite Plácido Domingo (where she returned as Oscar in Un Ballo in Maschera and Lucia in Lucia di Lammermoor), Amor in the Los Angeles Music Center Opera staging of Orpheus in the Underworld. She was also heard as Despina in Cosí Fan Tutte with the Dallas Opera; and Eurydice in Orpheus in the Underworld with Michigan Opera Theater and Houston Grand Opera, where she also sang Oscar. Dahl was Gretel in Hansel and Gretel with the Cleveland Opera. She appeared as Servilia in New York City Opera’s production of La Clemenza di Tito. Dahl has performed with every major Canadian orchestra, including the Toronto Symphony under Andrew Davis in Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 and Strauss’ Daphne in solo concert appearances. Other orchestral engagements have included a New Year’s Eve Gala concert with the Philadelphia Orchestra under David Zinman and appearances with Atlanta Symphony Orchestra during the Atlanta ’96 Olympics Arts Festival. Dahl performed with American Symphony Orchestra in the world premiere of David Del Tredici’s Child Alice at Carnegie Hall. She appeared with the San Francisco Symphony in Handel’s Messiah, and with the Saint Louis Symphony under Leonard Slatkin. She also performed with maestro Slatkin at the Hollywood Bowl, joined the Tonhalle Orchestra/Zurich under Zinman for a gala New Year’s Eve concert, and made her United Kingdom debut with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Her discography includes A Disney Spectacular with the Cincinnati Pops (Telarc), Glitter and Be Gay with the Calgary Philharmonic (CBC), A Gilbert and Sullivan Gala with the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra (CBC), and Love Walked In, a Gershwin collection with the Bramwell Tovey Trio (Red Phone Box Company). |
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