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Nancy Fabiola Herrera
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| Spanish mezzosoprano Nancy Fabiola Herrera
has had a very busy summer as Carmen in Gijon and San Sebastian as well as concerts in the Carary Islands and Oviedo. She also performed concerts in Montevideo and a gala in Costa Rica with Placido Domingo. She was Carmen at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden last spring (where the Times wrote: "Herrera's high vocal intelligence is the equal of the cunning of this Carmen. Her words are threaded in taut, sprung rhythms within an entirely secure and eloquent vocal range")as well as at the Metropolitan NY including the broadcast. Just prior she performed Zarzuela in Madrid during the holiday season. She sang the Verdi Requiem in Barcelona as well as concerts in China with the orchestra of Las Palmas earlier last fall. Last summer she was Carmen at Cap Roig in Spain and Rosina with the Belles Artes in Mexico City which was preceded by Adagisa "with beautiful timbre and temperment" at Opera de Montpellier. She was Orlofsky in her return to Las Palmas having begun 2007 at the Bastille as Giulietta in Hoffmann. |
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| She also "was the rich-voiced" Maddalena in the Metropolitan Opera Rigoletto last year. Earlier in 2006 she performed Carmen at La Corunia and Santander in Spain and sang a gala concert with Placido Domingo in Puerto Rico. She has sung the title
role of Luisa Fernanda (released on DVD) and performed Charlotte in Las Palmas with a "quality of phrasing and exquisite line of her singing and she put her extraordinary vocal abilities at the service of the character". She also sang Verdi Requiem at the Casals Festival. In fall 2005 she was Carmen at the Metropolitan Opera and repeated this in Jerez. Other recent engagements have included Giulietta, "remarkably sung and acted" in Seattle Opera's new Hoffmann, Rake's Progress for Las Palmas, Tokyo as Dorabella, her Metropolitan Opera debut as Suzuki, orchestral concerts in Madrid under Jesus Lopez-Cobos, Carmen at the New National Theater,
Pauline at the Teatro Real in Madrid's new Pique Dame, Dallas' La Vida Breve, her Covent Garden debut as Suzuki and her Italian debut at the Rome Opera as Carmen. She has also performed Romeo in Tulsa Opera's Capuleti appeared at the Bellas Artes in Mexico City as Carmen and debuted at the Opera de Paris as Maddalena in their season-opening Rigoletto. |
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| Equally as comfortable on the concert stage as on the operatic stage, she has performed Spanish songs as part of the 92nd Street Y's New York Festival of Song, appeared in recital at the Caramoor Festival and sang El Amor Brujo with the Washington Opera Orchestra. Other oratorio performances include Bach's St. Matthew's Passion at Concordia College.
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| FUTURE ENGAGEMENTS INCLUDE:
In early 2008-09 Ms. Herrera debuts with Los Angeles Opera as Carmen and then returns to Las Palmas for Roberto Devereux. Next summer finds her opening the Verona Opera season as Carmen. In the next seasons she will return to the Los Angeles Opera for the world premiere of Daniel Catan's Il Postino and she will bring her "scintillating" Carmen to the Deutsche Oper, Berlin and the Semperoper in Dresden. A highlight in 2010 will be her Carmen in Seville directed by Antonio Banderas. |
| Ms. Herrera has also recorded Dante, by Granados for ASV Records and has participated in other recordings to date: two of Manuel de Falla's El Amor Brujo, one with Enrique Bátis for IMP Classics and a recent chamber version with the Cameristi di Trento e Verona for Naxos/Marco Polo. She was the featured soloist in Mahler's Third Symphony with the Philharmonic Orchestra of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria on the Arte Nova Label. |
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