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Elizabeth Blancke-Biggs is recognized as one of the most exciting lirico-spinto sopranos on the international scene today. Critics have praised her virtuosic bel canto technique, the beauty of her voice, her pyrotechnic coloratura, and her unerring theatricality. Hailed as one of the best young Verdi singers by Placido Domingo, she appeared with him at the Washington National Opera as Giordani’s Fedora in a gala performance. Most recently she was heard internationally as Tosca at the Metropolitan Opera on a live Sirius Satellite broadcast with the tenor Marcello Giordani. She made her Metropolitan Opera debut as Violetta in the Zeffirelli production of Verdi’s La Traviata under the baton of Marcello Viotti with Lado Ataneli as Germont, and her Italian debut was the title role in Jonathan Miller’s production of Donizetti’s Maria Stuarda at Torino’s Teatro Regio, conducted by Evelino Pidó. In South America she was Abigaille in Verdi’s Nabucco for Chile’s Teatro Municipal, with Maurizio Benini. In London she appeared as Bellini’s Norma and Puccini’s Fanciulla del West for Opera Holland Park. She was seen as Minnie in La Fanciulla del West, for Florida Grand Opera with Anthony Michaels-Moore as Rance, and where one reviewer said ... “[her] rapturous sound literally enveloped the stage. A flamboyant, charismatic stage presence.” She returned to FGO to sing a critically acclaimed Tosca. For the New York City Opera she was seen as both Tosca and Mimì in La Bohème. She reprised Abigaille in Nabucco for the Aspendos Festival at the 15,000 seat Roman amphitheater in Antalya, Turkey, and was featured in a new production of Aida at Opera Omaha and Norma for Palm Beach Opera with Ruth Ann Swenson as Adalgisa. She toured to Japan with the Metropolitan Opera as Ortlinde in Die Walküre with Placido Domingo, James Morris, Deborah Voigt, conducted by Sir Andrew Davis. Ms Blancke-Biggs has been on the roster of the MET for several seasons, she has covered such artists as Renee Fleming, June Anderson, and Maria Guleghina, in such roles as: Violetta; Aida; Mimí; Suor Angelica; and Helmwige, she has also covered for the WNO in such roles as: Elena in I Vespri Siciliani; Leonora in Il Trovatore and Desdemona in Otello.
Other engagements include Verdi’s Messa da Requiem at Tully Hall, Beethoven’s Mass in C at the Cathedral of the Ascension, NY, Leonora in Verdi’s Il Trovatore with Opera New Jersey, and Elvira in Verdi’s Ernani with the American Opera Theatre, both under Mo. Michael Recchiuti. On the concert stage: Verdi’s Messa da Requiem for the opening of the new Disney Concert Hall, and with the Voices of Ascension in New York City; Brahms’ Ein Deutches Requiem at Lincoln Center; Honneger’s Le Rôi David with the Philharmonic de Nice; Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with both the Orquestra Sinfonica Nacionàl de Costa Rica and the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra; Verdi’s Requiem at the Orange County Performing Arts Centre; and Carmina Burana with the NZSO under Sir David Wilcox. Also with NZSO: Ortlinde in Die Walküre with Sir Donald McIntyre; and Mozart’s Mass in C Minor; Also: Beethoven’s Mass in C, Mozart’s Vesparae Solennes, Stravinsky’s Mass and the Fauré Requiem; Recitals for NZ Festival of the Arts as a Concert Artist for Radio NZ. Other roles include Desdemona in Otello, Ciò Ciò San in Madama Butterfly, Liù in Turandot,Giorgetta in Il Tabarro, Nedda in I Pagliacci, Micaëla in Carmen, andLa Countessa in Le Nozze di Figaro.
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VIDEO: Watch Elizabeth live
As Norma
As Maria Stuarda Teatro Regio Torino with Juan Diego Florez
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