Linda Larson

Soprano Linda Larson’s operatic experiences bring a dramatic element to all of her performances: she has sung leading operatic roles throughout the United States with companies including New York City Opera National Company, Opera Illinois, Syracuse Opera, Tri-Cities Opera, Indianapolis Opera, and Opera Memphis. Linda has enjoyed tragic death onstage as Gilda, Violetta, and Hoffmann’s Antonia; her characters on the lighter side include Musetta, Susanna, Fiordiligi, Gretel, Mabel in Pirates of Penzance, both Rosalinda and Adele in Fledermaus, and others.

Recognized for her commitment to new American music, Linda sang in the premieres of John Eaton’s operas The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Pumped Fiction. In April she premiered American Academy of Arts and Letters award-winning composer David Glaser’s Catullus Dreams with NYC new music ensemble Sequitur. She recorded Moonset No. 1, written for her by Glaser, in 2010. She has sung with the Center for Contemporary Opera, Sequitur, Washington Square Contemporary Music Society, Ensemble X, Brooklyn New Music Collective, Encompass New Opera Theatre, and Voices of Change, and has performed new music at the Bowdoin International, American Composers Alliance and Chintimini Chamber Music Festivals. She premiered chamber music of Cynthia Lee Wong at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall.

Linda’s upcoming engagements also include the premiere of John Eaton’s newest songs cycle as well as a concert with the Sights and Sounds festival at the Raleigh (NC) Museum of Art. She performed as soprano soloist in Richard Einhorn’s Vision of Light with the Cayuga Chamber Orchestra and Anonymous 4, and in Cantata at Symphony Space's Wall-to-Wall Stravinsky Festival; other concert engagements have included Messiah, Dvorak Stabat Mater, Schubert Mass in A-flat, Mendelssohn Elijah. and Beethoven Missa Solemnis. She has been featured in concert and recital with diverse organizations including the Chautauqua Institute, Three Seasons Chamber Music, Syracuse Symphony, New Texas Festival, and the Erie Philharmonic.

Linda grew up in Corvallis, where she studied voice with Karen Knutson and Gwen Leonard and piano with Becky Jeffers and Bea Miller. Linda holds degrees from the University of Michigan and the University of Texas at Austin. Honored as regional finalist in the Metropolitan Opera Auditions, she is a graduate of the Tri-Cities Opera Resident Artist Training Program, and participated in the Twentieth Century Opera and Song program at the Banff Centre for the Arts. She has taught at New York University and Ithaca College and served as coordinator of Vocal Coaching Program at Cornell University.

April 2011

Linda Larson, soprano
917-613-9135
linlarson@aol.com

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