Steffanie Pearce
Soprano
Born in Chagrin Falls, Ohio, Steffanie Pearce grew up singing everything from folk to classical music. Her formal studies started at the Cleveland Institue of Music and finished at The U.of So. California "Opera Workshop". She has won the Pavarotti Competition, Montreal International, D’Angelo, Baltimore Opera and the American Traditions competition among others. On the opera stage she is most noted for distinctive portrayals of tragic heroines including: Tosca, Violetta, Leonora, Marguerite, Donna Anna,Mimi, and the Three Heroins of Tales of Hoffman.. She has been a guest artist with many opera companies including; Opera de Marseille, Opera Lisboa,Opera Colorado, The Opera Co. of Philadelphia, Pittsburgh Opera Theater,San Diego Opera,The Buxton Festival in England,Baltimore Opera, Opera Delaware, New Jersey Opera Festival and has been a featured artist in many European and US tours with Teatro Lyrico d’Europe.
Equally at home on the concert stage, she has performed the Strauss 4 Last Songs and Carmina Burana with The Montreal Symphony. Miss Pearce is a frequent guest of the Lexington Philharmonic and has sung Gorecki’s Symphony No.3, Villa-Lobos Bachiana No. 5 and this season, Mahler’s 4th Symphony with them. Her oratorio repertoire is extensive and she has appeared as a soloist at many famous theaters including: Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall at LincolnCenter, The Kennedy Center, The Hollywood Bowl, The Dorothy Chandler, The Academy of Music, Blossom Music Festival, Marlborough Music Festival and many others.
Now a resident of Naples, Florida, Miss Pearce is the Founding Director of Opera Naples, Southwest Florida’s first profession regional opera company.
Nov. 06
Steffanie Pearce,Soprano
Operatic Repertoire:
BelliniAnna Bolena
Lucrezia Borge
Norma
Donizetti*Lucia di Lamermoor
Gounod*Faust, Marguerite
Mozart*Abduction from the Seraglio, Konstanza
*Cosi fan Tutti, Fiordiligi
*Figaro, Countess
*Don Giovanni, Donna Anna, Donna Elvira
Offenbach*Tales of Hoffmann, Three Ladies
Puccini*Tosca
Turandot, Liu
*La Boheme, Mimi
La Rondine, Magda
R. StraussDer Rosenkavalier, Marshallin
J. StraussDie Fledermaus
VerdiLuisa Miller
Otello Desdemona
*La Traviata, Violetta
*Il Trovatore, Leonora
WeberDer Freischutz, Agatha