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Concert One • Holiday Pops • Concert Two • May Pops• Player Opportunity Concert One Saturday, October 25, 2008 8:00 pm
General Admission Tickets
$27.00
The Soloist
Junko Watanabe,
Soprano Soprano Junko Watanabe is thrilled to be back on the Memorial Hall stage with the Melrose Symphony Orchestra during the 2008-2009 season. Ms. Watanabe has performed numerous operas, oratorios, and recitals in the U.S. and in Japan. Her performances have been acclaimed for her “sweet, liquid tones” (Opera News), “ravishing soprano line” and “tone that was steady, pure, and colorful all the way up into the empyrean above the staff.” (Boston Globe). A native of Osaka, Japan, Ms. Watanabe holds a Master’s degree from Osaka College of Music, and an Opera Performance diploma and Master of Music from Longy School of Music. Among her opera roles are Blonde in The Abduction from the Seraglio, Despina in Cosi fan tutte, Zerlina in Don Giovanni, Gretel in Hansel and Gretel, Genovieffa in Suor Angelica, and Monica in The Medium. Her other concert engagements include Bach’s Magnificat, Händel’s Messiah, Vivaldi’s Gloria, Haydn’s Creation and Lord Nelson Mass, Mozart’s Requiem and C minor Mass, Brahms’s German Requiem, Poulenc’s Gloria, Fauré’s Requiem, and Orff’s Carmina Burana. For the past several summers, she has performed a number of chamber works and opera scenes at the Marlboro Music Festival. Those works include Mozart’s Cosi fan tutte and Idomeneo, Händel’s Nine German Arias, Brahms’s Liebeslieder and Neue Liebeslieder, Mozart’s Notturni, and Chausson’s Chanson Perpétuelle. Ms. Watanabe was a finalist in the Oratorio Society of New York Solo Competition and winner of the National Association of Teachers of Singing Competition Professional Division in Boston. or e-mail Millierich@verizon.net ©2008 Melrose Symphony Orchestra P.O. Box 760715, Melrose, Massachusetts 02176 |
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