12, 19, 26 August 2017
dell'Arte Opera Ensemble - New York City
La Calisto - F. Cavalli
LINFEA
Brittany Goodwin - Stage Director | Charles Weaver - Conductor
18, 22 August 2017
dell'Arte Opera Ensemble - New York City
Untamed! Opera Scenes
Carmen, Card Trio - G. Bizet
FRASQUITA
Eldred Marshall, Conductor and Music Director
26 August 2017
dell'Arte Opera Ensemble - New York City
Wild Things (recital)
Schenk mir deinen goldenen Kamm - Arnold Schoenberg
The Crucifixion - Samuel Barber
5 May 2017
The Career Bridges Grant Competition
FINALS
New York City
26 February 2017
Kammeroper Schloss Rheinsberg International Voice Competition FINALS
Berlin, Germany
“Taylor is beautiful, charming, with an amazing voice and flawless technique.”
- Sony Classical, New York
About
For Linfea, in La Calisto -
"In this secondary role, soprano Taylor Kirk was not just an effective actress but the vocal standout of the night, with an uncommonly well-supported and clear tone capable of many colors."
- David Wright for The New York Classical Review
See her acclaimed performance here
Taylor Kirk, soprano, is a graduate (Cum laude) of the Purchase College Conservatory of Music, and currently studies with Neil Semer. She recently appeared in the role of Linfea, in La Calisto, with dell’Arte Opera Ensemble, this past summer. She was a 2017 finalist in the Career Bridges Grant Competition, the Kammeroper Schloss Rheinsberg International Voice Competition and the 2016 Mario Lanza and Elaine Malbin competition. She made her dell’Arte Opera debut as Poussette in Manon, and Bianca in La Rondine. Having a great passion for art song repertoire, she participated in the Art Song Preservation Society’s “Spring Into Song” program, with both Thomas Grubb (Poulenc) and Frank Daykin (Debussy). She has performed the roles of Micaëla in Carmen and Erste Dame in Die Zauberflöte with the Purchase Opera. She has performed solo concerts with the Westchester Korean Choral Society and the National Repertory Orchestra. She appears on Purchase Opera’s recording of Lee Hoiby’s The Tempest, and participated in the world premiere of Paul Lustig Dunkel’s Casey at the Bat. She was Frontier Airlines’ New Artist of the West, upon the release of her debut album, Simple Gifts. She was a special guest artist performing “Somewhere” with Steph Carse on PBS, and was also signed to Sony Classical.
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Taylor
Soprano