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A
versatile performer, Ms. Halperin was recently engaged as the cover
mezzo-soprano soloist for the New
York Philharmonic
in the American premiere of Dov Seltzer's Lament to Yitzhak,
conducted by Kurt Masur, and made her West Coast debut as Suzuki in Madama
Butterfly with West
Bay Opera
in Palo Alto conducted by Henry Mollicone and staged by Yefim Maizel.
In
the summer of 2001, she was pleased to participate in the Bel Canto
Young Artists Ensemble of the Caramoor
International Festival
in Katonah, New York, where she was chosen to cover the role of Emilia
in Rossini’s Otello on the mainstage and
to coach and perform songs of Verdi with music director Will
Crutchfield, as well as preparing excerpts from the role of Adalgisa in
Bellini’s Norma.
Later
this season, Ms. Halperin will make her debut with Opera Theater of
Connecticut at the Sanibel Festival
in Florida as Cornelia in Handel’s Julius Caesar
and Filipevna in Eugene Onegin. She has also been
engaged to sing the principal role of Popova in William
Walton’s one-act comic opera The Bear
with New
York Chamber Opera.
Ms.
Halperin delighted New York audiences with her comic turn as Dorotea in
Donizetti’s farce Le convenienze ed inconvenienze
teatrali with New York Chamber Opera and brought "great
flair" to Zita in Gianni Schicchi with Regina
Opera.
Other roles include The Witch in Hansel & Gretel,
The Mother in Amahl & the Night Visitors,
Lola in Cavalleria Rusticana, Rebecca Nurse in The
Crucible, and Dame Hannah (cover) in Ruddigore.
With The Lyric Theatre she portrayed numerous characters ranging from
Maddalena in Rigoletto to the Zia Principessa in Suor
Angelica and most recently performed concert excerpts from Carmen.
In
other concert appearances, Ms. Halperin performed Träume
from Wagner’s Wesendonck Lieder at Merkin
Hall with The Lyric Theatre Orchestra, and Vaughan Williams’ Blake
Songs with oboe as a guest artist with the St. Cecilia
Chamber Ensemble. She recently performed selections from
Copland’s Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson
in a benefit recital for Friends
In Deed, presented excerpts from a contemporary opera, The
Mummy, by George
Quincy, and was featured in Regina Opera’s Verdi
tribute concert. She has also been heard as a soloist in performances
of Beethoven’s Mass in C and
Schubert’s Mass in Eb.
Ms.
Halperin is an accomplished linguist and holds a degree in Russian from
Yale University, including a semester of intensive study at St.
Petersburg State University in Russia. A
finalist in the 1998 San
Francisco Opera Center
Auditions, Ms. Halperin currently studies voice with Judith Natalucci.
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