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Edith Dowd, contralto.

b i o g r a p h y...........back to roster....up September 2007 The young and talented Edith Dowd is a native of Tennessee, who received her Master of Music at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. In July 2003, she made her debut in Germany performing at the acclaimed Opera Gala of the Kammeroper Schloss Rheinsberg Festival with Azucena’s aria from Verdi’s Il Trovatore, excerpts from Gershwin’s Porgy & Bess and as the Witch in Humperdinck’s Hansel und Gretel. Season 2003/04 has Ms. Dowd return to New York City Opera in Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor, Mozart’s Die Zauberflote, Gilbert & Sullivan’s The Mikado, Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro and Rossini’s Ermione. The artist continues her appearances with New York City Opera in season 2004/05 in the productions of Daphne, La Traviata and Haroun and the Sea of Stories as well as the title role in Carmen at the Belleayre Music Festival. Recently, Ms. Dowd performed Bach Magnificat with Bozeman Symphony and returned to the Belleayre Music Festival for the role of Maddalena in Rigoletto as well as made her debut with Les Amis du Lyrique en Bretagne in the production of Gluck’s Orphee et Eurydice. In the 2005/06 season, Ms. Dowd returned to the New York City Opera for Lysistrata. The appearances duing the 2006/07 season included Messiah with Helena Symphony, as the Third Lady in Magic Flute with Xalapa Symphony (Mexoci), as Marcelina in a concert version of Le nozze di Figaro with the National Philharmonic and as Maddalena in Rigoletto with Chattanooga Opera. Engagements with New York City Opera in seasons 2002/03 and 2001/02 included Sousa’s The Glass Blowers, Douglas Moore’s The Ballad of Baby Doe, Verdi’s La Traviata, Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi, Il Tabarro and Suor Angelica, Wagner’s Der Fliegende Hollander as well as Monteverdi’s Il Ritorno d’Ulisse in Patria. Ms. Dowd gave her first performance of Maddelena in Verdi’s Rigoletto with The American Opera Theatre at the National Theater in Taipei, Taiwan, in the summer of 2001. For Nashville Opera, she performed the role of Hansel in Hansel und Gretel and with Chattanooga Opera she’s been engaged as Count Orlovsky in Johann Strauss’ Die Fledermaus. Ms. Dowd sang Copland’s In the Beginning and Mozart’s Requiem with the National Chorale at Avery Fisher Hall in New York City and Handel’s Messiah with Phoenix Symphony. Ms. Dowd was a Santa Fe Opera apprentice in 1999 and 2000, and performed the second maid in Richard Strauss’ Elektra. She was invited to return to Santa Fe to perform as Lucy Lockit in John Gay’s Beggar’s Opera. Other roles include Juno in Handel’s Semele at the Spoleto (Italy) Festival and Madame Flora in an Italian translation of Menotti’s The Medium (La Medium) directed by the composer in Palermo, Italy. While at the Curtis Institute, she was heard in the title role of Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia, as Mme de Croissy in Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmelites, Mrs. Quickly in Verdi’s Falstaff, Marta in Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta, and reprised the role of Madame Flora in a production of The Medium directed by Ben Levitt. In the San Francisco Bay Area, Ms. Dowd sang with Pocket Opera in its productions of Handel’s Alcina, Rinaldo and Xerxes as well as with Berkeley Opera in a production of Dvorak’s Rusalka. In concert she has been heard in Resphigi’s Il Tramonto, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, Elgar’s Sea Pictures, Handel’s Messiah, and Brahms’ Alto Rhapsody and as Jocasta in Stravinsky’s Oedipus Rex. Honors and awards include the Ellen Faull Gordon competition, finalist in both the Pacific and Northeast regional Metropolitan Opera auditions, and a grant from the Gerda Lissner Foundation. b i o....r e s u m e.... back to roster...up . . . .

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