| Past Events: Soprano Deleen Davidson Thursday, May 1st, 2008 A native New Orleans, Ms. Davidson performs throughout the United States, with an emphasis on maintaining her Southern artistic roots. She made her professional opera debut with the Gulf Coast Opera as Zerlina in Pergolesi’s La Serva Padrona, followed by mainstage roles with the New Orleans Opera as Countess Ceprano in Rigoletto and Lola in Cavalleria Rusticana. Her New York debut followed in 2005, when she sang Susanna in Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro with Martina Arroyo’s Prelude to Performance series. |
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Passionately devoted to bringing opera to everyone, Ms. Davidson has traveled the South with the Metropelican Opera Young Audience’ s production of Opera a la Carte, and with the new Death by Opera, which she co-wrote and directed. She regularly “crosses over” into musical theatre territory as well, singing featured parts in Pippin, Barnum, Evita, Scrooge, Man of La Mancha and, most recently, the role of Irene Molloy in Le Petit Theatre’s production of Hello, Dolly! in New Orleans’ French Quarter. In October 2007, Ms. Davidson became the founding director of “The Muses,” a non-profit organization that offers a regular series of concerts, art shows, creativity seminars and other projects to further augment the cultural life of Hot Springs. |
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