Repertoire:
Opera
Bizet - Carmen - Micaela/Frasquita
Cilea - Adriana Lecouvreur - Adriana
Gounod - Faust - Marguerite
Gounod - Romeo et Juliette - Juliette
Massenet - Manon -Manon
Mozart - Don Giovanni - Donna Elvira
Mozart - Le Nozze di Figaro - Countess
Offenbach - Contes D’Hoffmann - Antonia
Puccini - Gianni Schicchi - Lauretta/Nella
Puccini - Il Tabarro - Giorgetta
Puccini - La Boheme - Mimi
Puccini - La Fanciulla del West - Minnie
Puccini - La Rondine - Magda
Puccini - Madama Butterfly - Cio-Cio San
Puccini - Manon Lescaut - Manon
Puccini - Suor Angelica - Angelica
Puccini - Turandot - Liu
Rossini - La Cambiale Di Matrimonio - Georgina
Verdi - La Traviata - Violetta
Opera
Bizet - Carmen - Micaela/Frasquita
Cilea - Adriana Lecouvreur - Adriana
Gounod - Faust - Marguerite
Gounod - Romeo et Juliette - Juliette
Massenet - Manon -Manon
Mozart - Don Giovanni - Donna Elvira
Mozart - Le Nozze di Figaro - Countess
Offenbach - Contes D’Hoffmann - Antonia
Puccini - Gianni Schicchi - Lauretta/Nella
Puccini - Il Tabarro - Giorgetta
Puccini - La Boheme - Mimi
Puccini - La Fanciulla del West - Minnie
Puccini - La Rondine - Magda
Puccini - Madama Butterfly - Cio-Cio San
Puccini - Manon Lescaut - Manon
Puccini - Suor Angelica - Angelica
Puccini - Turandot - Liu
Rossini - La Cambiale Di Matrimonio - Georgina
Verdi - La Traviata - Violetta
Concert/Oratorio
Barber - Knoxville: Summer of 1915
Beethoven - 9th Symphony
Berlioz - Les Nuits D'Été
Canteloube - Chants d'Auvergne
De Falla - The Maiden and the Nightingale
Dvořák – Zigeunerlieder
Fauré – Requiem
Mahler - 8th Symphony (Soprano 1)
Mendelssohn – Elijah
Mozart – Requiem
Ravel – Shéhérazade
Rossini - Stabat Mater
Rutter - Requiem/Magnificat
Schumann - Manfred Symphony
Strauss - Four Last Songs
Verdi – Requiem
Villa-Lobos - Bachianas Brasileiras No.5
Barber - Knoxville: Summer of 1915
Beethoven - 9th Symphony
Berlioz - Les Nuits D'Été
Canteloube - Chants d'Auvergne
De Falla - The Maiden and the Nightingale
Dvořák – Zigeunerlieder
Fauré – Requiem
Mahler - 8th Symphony (Soprano 1)
Mendelssohn – Elijah
Mozart – Requiem
Ravel – Shéhérazade
Rossini - Stabat Mater
Rutter - Requiem/Magnificat
Schumann - Manfred Symphony
Strauss - Four Last Songs
Verdi – Requiem
Villa-Lobos - Bachianas Brasileiras No.5
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Conductors
Gerd Albrech Leonard Bernstein Sir John Burrows Franco Collura Christoph Von Dohnanyi Alberto Erede Herbert Von Karajan Carlos Kleiber Wil Kesling Eugene Kohn Bruno Madeira Gomez-Martinez John Mauceri John Rutter Günther Schuller Gorg Solti Horst Stein |
Accompanists and Coaches
Dalton Baldwin Mary Louise Boehm Henry Jackson Gerald Jennings Eugene Kohn Günther Lehmann David Lutz Jack Metz Lorenzo Malfatti John Moriarity Alan Rogers Ronald Schneider Eric Verteer Marthe Wade |
Reviews:
La Boheme
"Miss Alsatti's portrayal as Mimi was most persuasive...at evening's end, her performance approached the exemplary"
Manon Lescaut
"Puccini's demands have been the nemesis of many an established prima donna, but soprano Maria Alsatti surmounted the hurdles with amazing success. This glamorous young singer has real star quality. She sang with all her heart. It was a total performance she gave with every inflection both aural and visual."
- The Pittsburgh Press
La Boheme
"Miss Alsatti's portrayal as Mimi was most persuasive...at evening's end, her performance approached the exemplary"
Manon Lescaut
"Puccini's demands have been the nemesis of many an established prima donna, but soprano Maria Alsatti surmounted the hurdles with amazing success. This glamorous young singer has real star quality. She sang with all her heart. It was a total performance she gave with every inflection both aural and visual."
- The Pittsburgh Press
Madame Butterfly
"The magical picture which Maria Alsatti painted as Butterfly brought this appreciative audience to their feet. On several occasions her arias brought thunderous applause and shouts of bravo everywhere. This performance of Puccini's tragic opera verismo, was the finest ever presented in the past six seasons by the Pennsylvania Opera Theater."
- Dominion Post
"The magical picture which Maria Alsatti painted as Butterfly brought this appreciative audience to their feet. On several occasions her arias brought thunderous applause and shouts of bravo everywhere. This performance of Puccini's tragic opera verismo, was the finest ever presented in the past six seasons by the Pennsylvania Opera Theater."
- Dominion Post
The Marriage of Figaro
"Vienna State Opera Soprano Maria Alsatti (in a cast of future superstars) sang the Countess with a creamy and sumptuous sound, portraying the character's grief. In her opening aria 'Porgi Amor', the words give me back his love or give me death were very moving. Her lovely soprano is heartbreaking in this opening Act 2 lament."
- Tangelwood/Berkshire Eagle
The Marriage of Figaro
"Maria Alsatti's 'Countess' was the work of an accomplished artist... Alsatti's difficult opening of Act 2 with the ever popular 'Porgi Amor' (God of Love) was a study in control, beautifully sung, as was her 'Dove Sonò' (Where are the beautiful moments). The voice rises grandly to the opulent writing. It is a big voice with a thrilling top."
- Tanglewood Times
Carmen
"Maria Alsatti was simply stunning."
- Der Kurier, Vienna, Austria
Elijah - Tanglewood/Berkshire Festival
"Soprano soloist Maria Alsatti was first rate and showed a fine dramatic sense of the text."
- The Berkshire Eagle
New York Concert Debut - American Composers Series
"Maria Alsatti is an American who has been singing with the Vienna State Opera for the past several years and Thursday she showed a big sumptously rich, well-handled soprano which exudes radiant vocal health."
- New York Times
Puccini-Verdi Gala - Buffalo Philharmonic Concert Series
Tearful arias steal the Show
"Soprano Maria Alsatti and Metropolitan Tenor Enrico DiGiuseppe, artists of impressive stature, began the evening with the duet from Act I of Puccini's LaBoheme. And while both artists seemed well matched vocally, and with good intonation, it was Alsatti's voice however which was cleaner and tighter. Later in the concert, Miss Alsatti revealed an intense, rich lower register in Cilea's 'Io Son L'Umile Ancella' from Adriana LeCouvreur, then brought the house down with everyone's current favorite aria 'Oh Mio Babbino Caro' from Puccini's Gianni Schicchi which she sang with properly sweet pleading and supplicatory affection. In Musetta's famous waltz from LaBoheme, she added some very nice coquettish touches, both in voice and in stage mannerism, then unleashed an impressive soaring ascent to the upper register without any loss of quality. The artists concluded the program with the famous drinking song 'Libiamo' from Verdi's LaTraviata, receiving great applause and finally a standing ovation."
- Buffalo News
"Vienna State Opera Soprano Maria Alsatti (in a cast of future superstars) sang the Countess with a creamy and sumptuous sound, portraying the character's grief. In her opening aria 'Porgi Amor', the words give me back his love or give me death were very moving. Her lovely soprano is heartbreaking in this opening Act 2 lament."
- Tangelwood/Berkshire Eagle
The Marriage of Figaro
"Maria Alsatti's 'Countess' was the work of an accomplished artist... Alsatti's difficult opening of Act 2 with the ever popular 'Porgi Amor' (God of Love) was a study in control, beautifully sung, as was her 'Dove Sonò' (Where are the beautiful moments). The voice rises grandly to the opulent writing. It is a big voice with a thrilling top."
- Tanglewood Times
Carmen
"Maria Alsatti was simply stunning."
- Der Kurier, Vienna, Austria
Elijah - Tanglewood/Berkshire Festival
"Soprano soloist Maria Alsatti was first rate and showed a fine dramatic sense of the text."
- The Berkshire Eagle
New York Concert Debut - American Composers Series
"Maria Alsatti is an American who has been singing with the Vienna State Opera for the past several years and Thursday she showed a big sumptously rich, well-handled soprano which exudes radiant vocal health."
- New York Times
Puccini-Verdi Gala - Buffalo Philharmonic Concert Series
Tearful arias steal the Show
"Soprano Maria Alsatti and Metropolitan Tenor Enrico DiGiuseppe, artists of impressive stature, began the evening with the duet from Act I of Puccini's LaBoheme. And while both artists seemed well matched vocally, and with good intonation, it was Alsatti's voice however which was cleaner and tighter. Later in the concert, Miss Alsatti revealed an intense, rich lower register in Cilea's 'Io Son L'Umile Ancella' from Adriana LeCouvreur, then brought the house down with everyone's current favorite aria 'Oh Mio Babbino Caro' from Puccini's Gianni Schicchi which she sang with properly sweet pleading and supplicatory affection. In Musetta's famous waltz from LaBoheme, she added some very nice coquettish touches, both in voice and in stage mannerism, then unleashed an impressive soaring ascent to the upper register without any loss of quality. The artists concluded the program with the famous drinking song 'Libiamo' from Verdi's LaTraviata, receiving great applause and finally a standing ovation."
- Buffalo News
Awards and Endowments
Metropolitan Opera Auditions (1st Place)
Carnegie Mellon Award Series (Most Outstanding Voice)
Loren Zachary Foundation
Fullbright Finalist Award
Puccini Foundation
Minna Kaufmann Rudd Foundation
Vira Heinz Scholarship, Carnegie-Mellon University
Distinguished Young Artist Award, American Institute of Musical Studies
Seton-LaSalle Alumni Hall of Fame Award (an honor she shares with gifted Pittsburgh composer, colleague, cyberspace pen pal and 1998 Tony award winning composer, Stephen Flaherty of "Once On This Island", "Ragtime", "Anastasia", and "Seussical" fame.)
Metropolitan Opera Auditions (1st Place)
Carnegie Mellon Award Series (Most Outstanding Voice)
Loren Zachary Foundation
Fullbright Finalist Award
Puccini Foundation
Minna Kaufmann Rudd Foundation
Vira Heinz Scholarship, Carnegie-Mellon University
Distinguished Young Artist Award, American Institute of Musical Studies
Seton-LaSalle Alumni Hall of Fame Award (an honor she shares with gifted Pittsburgh composer, colleague, cyberspace pen pal and 1998 Tony award winning composer, Stephen Flaherty of "Once On This Island", "Ragtime", "Anastasia", and "Seussical" fame.)
CV:
Education
Carnegie Mellon University, Bachelor of Fine Arts (Vocal Performance)
Curtis Institute of Music (private)
The New England Conservatory of Music, Master of Fine Arts (Vocal Performance)
Teaching Profile
2007-2015 Vocal Instruction, Robert Morris University
2002-2004 Vocal Instruction- Carnegie Mellon University,
Drama-Musical Theater Pre College Program
Professor of Vocal Performance (Classical/Musical Theater Division)
1994-2004: Faculty, Performing Arts Studios Vienna, Vienna, Austria
1987-1993: Private Vocal Instruction, New York, in addition to performances both in the USA and abroad.
1983-1986: Assistant to Margaret Hoswell, Professor Emeritus at The New England Conservatory of Music, Curtis Institute of Music, Juilliard School of Music, Manhattan School of Music.
1980-1983: Assistant to Professor Berton Coffin, Professor Emeritus, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado: Professor Emeritus at Texas A&M, Dallas, Texas. Note: Professor Coffin authored Sounds of Singing, universally recognised as one of the more scientific handbooks used in the development of advanced vocal technique. In the chapter relating to acoustical frequencies for the Soprano voice, Maria Alsatti was chosen as an example of well-produced overtones in the soprano registration. For the photographic illustrations of this vocal function, Professor Coffin selected photos of those frequencies which Miss Alsatti's Soprano produced in this dynamic phenomenon.
1973-1986: Assistant to Esther Andreas, Professor Emeritus, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
Skills:
Piano
Multilingual: French, German, Italian, Spanish, English
MEMBERSHIP: American Guild of Musical Artists (AGMA)
Personal Artistic Direction:
SAFIMM, (Swiss Agency for International Music Management, US/Europe)
CAMI (Columbia Artists Management, David Foster <division>)
Education
Carnegie Mellon University, Bachelor of Fine Arts (Vocal Performance)
Curtis Institute of Music (private)
The New England Conservatory of Music, Master of Fine Arts (Vocal Performance)
Teaching Profile
2007-2015 Vocal Instruction, Robert Morris University
2002-2004 Vocal Instruction- Carnegie Mellon University,
Drama-Musical Theater Pre College Program
Professor of Vocal Performance (Classical/Musical Theater Division)
1994-2004: Faculty, Performing Arts Studios Vienna, Vienna, Austria
1987-1993: Private Vocal Instruction, New York, in addition to performances both in the USA and abroad.
1983-1986: Assistant to Margaret Hoswell, Professor Emeritus at The New England Conservatory of Music, Curtis Institute of Music, Juilliard School of Music, Manhattan School of Music.
1980-1983: Assistant to Professor Berton Coffin, Professor Emeritus, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado: Professor Emeritus at Texas A&M, Dallas, Texas. Note: Professor Coffin authored Sounds of Singing, universally recognised as one of the more scientific handbooks used in the development of advanced vocal technique. In the chapter relating to acoustical frequencies for the Soprano voice, Maria Alsatti was chosen as an example of well-produced overtones in the soprano registration. For the photographic illustrations of this vocal function, Professor Coffin selected photos of those frequencies which Miss Alsatti's Soprano produced in this dynamic phenomenon.
1973-1986: Assistant to Esther Andreas, Professor Emeritus, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
Skills:
Piano
Multilingual: French, German, Italian, Spanish, English
MEMBERSHIP: American Guild of Musical Artists (AGMA)
Personal Artistic Direction:
SAFIMM, (Swiss Agency for International Music Management, US/Europe)
CAMI (Columbia Artists Management, David Foster <division>)
Discography:
Requiem/Magnificat (World Premiere) - CD, Carnegie Hall, New York, John Rutter Conductor
American Composers Series -CD, Merkin Concert Hall, "New York Live" Radio Broadcasts, New York Arts Ensemble, (Mary Louise Boehm, Piano, Kees Kooper, Violin, Micahel Rudiakov, Cello)
Carmen - DVD/CD/Video, Wienner Staatsoper/Vienna State Opera, Vienna Philharmonic, Carlos Kleiber conductor
Der Rosenkavalier - CD, Grosse Festpielhaus, Salzburg, Austria, Christoph von Dohnnyi, Conductor Vienna Philharmonic
Puccini-Verdi Gala - CD, Buffalo Philharmonic, Franco Collura Conductor
Smithsonian Institute Concert Series - CD/Video, International Poetry Forum
Requiem/Magnificat (World Premiere) - CD, Carnegie Hall, New York, John Rutter Conductor
American Composers Series -CD, Merkin Concert Hall, "New York Live" Radio Broadcasts, New York Arts Ensemble, (Mary Louise Boehm, Piano, Kees Kooper, Violin, Micahel Rudiakov, Cello)
Carmen - DVD/CD/Video, Wienner Staatsoper/Vienna State Opera, Vienna Philharmonic, Carlos Kleiber conductor
Der Rosenkavalier - CD, Grosse Festpielhaus, Salzburg, Austria, Christoph von Dohnnyi, Conductor Vienna Philharmonic
Puccini-Verdi Gala - CD, Buffalo Philharmonic, Franco Collura Conductor
Smithsonian Institute Concert Series - CD/Video, International Poetry Forum