Ann Panagulias
Soprano
New England First Place Winner 1985	review

Ann Panagulias has graced the stages of opera companies throughout North America, including the Dallas Opera in the title role of L'Incoronazione di Poppea, Los Angeles Music Center Opera as Gilda in Rigoletto, Hawaii Opera as Rosina in Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Palm Beach Opera as Norina in Don Pasquale, Pittsburgh Opera as Nedda in I Pagliacci, Pamina in Die Zauberflöte, and as Gilda, San Francisco Opera in the title role of Lulu, as Natasha in War and Peace, Musetta in La Bohême, Marzelline in Fidelio, and Cinna in Lucio Silla, Santa Fe Opera as Manja in The Countess Maritza, Effie Gray in Modern Painters, the sister in Der Protagonist (Weill), Zerlina in Don Giovanni, and Lisa in The Sorrows of Young Werther (von Bose), Vancouver Opera as Norina,and Washington Opera as Marenka in The Bartered Bride.

In Europe, Ms. Panagulias has appeared with the Vlaamse Opera in Antwerp as Poppea, Teatro la Fenice in Venice in the title role of Lulu, Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa as Anne Trulove in The Rake's Progress, Opera de Montpellier and Théatre des Champs-Elysées as Angelique in Roland (Lully), Athens as Gilda, Grand Theatre de Bordeaux as Fiordiligi in Cosi fan tutte, and Wexford Festival as Leonora in L'Assedio di Calais.

During the past two seasons, she has returned to the Pittsburgh Opera as Musetta in La Boheme, the Spoleto, U.S.A. Festival for their production of Kurt Weill's Die Burgschaft, made debuts with Opera Carolina and Opera Columbus as Violetta in La Traviata, and Portland Opera in the title role of The Cunning Little Vixen in the title role and as Blanche in Dialogues of the Carmelites, debuts with Opera Theatre of St. Louis as the wife of Bruno Hauptman in the world premiere of Loss of Eden, the Opera Company of Philadelphia as Micaela in Carmen, and returns to Portland Opera for A View from the Bridge. Next season, she will return to the San Francisco Opera for Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk and The Cunning Little Vixen.

On the concert stage, she has performed as a featured soprano soloist with the Boston Symphony in Berlioz' "Petite Messe Solenelle," Detroit Symphony in a concert of operatic arias and duets conducted by Andrew Davis, Honolulu Symphony in Handel's Messiah, Orff's Carmina Burana, and an evening of Viennese operetta, Pacific Symphony in Eliot Goldenthal's "Fire, Water, and Paper," conducted by Carl St. Clair, Midsummer Mozart Festival in Mozart's "Requiem" and "Coronation" Mass, Richmond Symphony in Shostakovich's Symphony No.14 conducted by George Manahan, San Jose Symphony in Handel's Messiah and Sinfonia San Francisco as Madame Herz in Der Schauspieldirektor.

Ms. Panagulias began her professional career with the San Francisco Opera as a member of the Merola Opera program, Western Opera Theater, and later as an Adler Fellow, during which time she sang a number of roles culminating with her major role debut as Lulu. During that time she also appeared with the Wolf Trap Opera Company.

She has appeared in solo recital at the Chatelet in Paris, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the Schwabacher Recital Series, Kohl Mansion Chamber Series, and the New England Conservatory Faculty Chamber Music Series.

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