Diana McVey
Soprano
New England Finalist 2003

Diana McVey, soprano, has sung leading roles with the Rhode Island Philharmonic, Ocean State Light Opera, and the Bel Canto Opera Company among others and has appeared as soloist with the Rhode Island Philharmonic, the Rhode Island Civic Chorale & Orchestra, Opera Providence, the Longwood Symphony and the Florida West Coast Symphony. She sang the role of Anna in the world premiere of Richard Cumming's opera The Picnic with the Trinity Repertory Company. This versatile soprano is equally at home in opera, oratorio and recital, and her repertoire ranges from standard opera repertoire to world premieres. Her roles include Adalgisa in Bellini's Norma, Laetitia in Gian-Carlo Menotti's The Old Maid and the Thief, Susanna in The Marriage of Figaro, Despina in Così fan tutte, Constanze in Abduction from the Seraglio, and Gretel in Hansel & Gretel.

Orchestral repertoire includes works by Carl Orff, Leonard Bernstein, Richard Cumming and Henryk Górecki, and the oratorios of Handel, Haydn, Mozart, Honegger and J.S. Bach. In 1999 she was a prize-winner in the prestigious Bel Canto Opera Competition. In 2001 she was an apprentice in the Sarasota Opera Apprentice Artists Program where she covered the role of Olympia in The Tales of Hoffmann. Recently Ms. McVey performed Górecki's Symphony No. 3 with the Longwood Symphony at Jordan Hall, Boston, the role of Calla in the world premiere of John Sumerlin's opera Air and Haydn's Creation with the Rhode Island Civic Chorale & Orchestra. Upcoming engagements include Mozart's Requiem with the Rhode Island Civic Chorale & Orchestra and productions of Thomas Adés' Powder Her Face with the Boston Academy of Music Opera Company and Boston Modern Orchestra Project and Così fan tutte with the Salt Marsh Opera.

In the summer of 2002, she spent three weeks working with Sherrill Milnes, Maria Spacagna, Fritz Weaver, Rochelle Oliver and Tony Randall as part of the V.O.I.C.Experience program in Orlando, Florida. Ms. McVey was also a 2002 Lake George Opera Apprentice Artist where she covered the role of Constanze in Abduction from the Seraglio. Ms. McVey is a student of Maria Spacagna.

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