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 As an active performer of opera, recital and concert repertoire. North American
born soprano Raquela Sheeran has performed extensively throughout the United States
and Europe. Ms. Sheeran currently is singing with Deutsche Oper Berlin. Among the
roles that Ms. Sheeran has been engaged to perform with the company are Gretel in
"Hansel und Gretel", Anna in "Nabucco", Ein junges Madchen in "Moses und Aron", Erste
Dame in "Die Zauberflote", Erste Magd in "Daphne", Amore in "Orfeo ed Euridice", Zweites
Blumenmadchen in "Parsifal", Nimwe and Merryll Bee in the premiere of Wilfred Maria
Danner's chamber opera "Merlin in Soho", Sophie in "Werther", Azema in "Semiramide",
Elster in the premiere of Paul Hertel and Paul Flieder's children's opera, "Elster und
Parzival" as well as Olympla, Giulietta and Antonia in "Opa/er Hoffmann ehrzahlt", a
children's version of "Les Contes d'Hoffmann".
Other roles In Ms. Sheeran's repertoire include Karolina in Smetana's "Two Widows", Marzelline in "Fidelio", Yvette/Georgette in "La Rondine", Naiade in "Ariadne aus Naxos", Serafina in Donizetti's "Il Campanelo di Notte", and Blonde in "Die Entfuhrung an dem Serail". She has performed with New Israeli Opera in Tel Aviv, Chautauqua Opera in New York, Central City Opera in Colorado and Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin. Prior to moving to Germany, Ms. Sheeran completed her training as a young artist at the Juilliard School Opera Center. With the Opera Center, she was featured in their productions of "La Cenerentola" as Clorinda and in the U.S. premiere of Kurt Weill's operetta, "Der Kuhhaundel" as Juanita.
In New York, Ms. Sheeran has been featured in recitals at the Lincoln Center
Library, the 92nd Street Y, Alice Tully Hall, the Harvard Club, the Juilliard School and
Chautauqua Institution. As a Piatigorsky Foundation Artist, she performed a recital tour
throughout southern Louisiana and will perform another one throughout eastern Texas in
January 2003.
Ms. Sheeran has been the soprano soloist in Bernstein's "Chichester
Psalms", Faure's "Requiem", Shostakovich's "Yiddish Folk Songs", Orff's "Carmina Burana",
Brahms' "Requiem" and Mozart's "Requiem". She has performed at Alice Tully Hall, tne
Kennedy Center with the National Symphony Orchestra, the Academy of Music in
Philadelphia, Schloss Leopoldskron in Salzburg, Austria, Il Duomo in Spoleto, Italy as
part of "Il Festival dei due Mondi", the Mann Auditorium with the Jerusalem Symphony in
Tel Aviv and at the Musikhochschule in Leipzig, Germany with the Juilliard
Contemporary Ensemble. In December 2002, Ms. Sheeran will have the honor of singing
as the soprano soloist in the world premiere of Spanish born composer Lorenzo Palomo's
new composition to be written for the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra under the baton of
renowned conductor Jesus Lopez Cobos.
Among the awards Ms. Sheeran has received are the Lotte Lenya singing
Competition/Kurt Weill Foundation for Music Award, the American Berlin Opera
Foundation Scholarship, the Licia Albanese-Puccini Foundation Award, the Opera Index
Grant, the "Sonderpreis der Festspiele Trier" at the Belvedere-Wettbewerb Competition in Vienna, and the Franz-Josef-Weisweiler Stipendium.
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