Stephanie Weiss, soprano, recently graduated with a Professional Studies Diploma from the Mannes College of Music, where she performed Musetta in La Boheme and was the recipient of a Richard F. Gold Career Grant. She also holds degrees from New England Conservatory, Tufts University, and University of Missouri-Kansas City. Her operatic roles include Violetta, Pamina, Papagena, Frasquita, and Fiordiligi. She has performed with such companies as the Kansas City Civic Opera, the Civic Orchestra of Kansas City, Boston Academy of Music, and the Ridgefield Opera. Recent engagements include covering the role of Medora in Verdi's Il Corsaro with the Opera Orchestra of New York under Maestro Eve Queler. Ms. Weiss was a Regional Finalist in the Midwest Region of the 2001 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. Currently, she resides in the New York City area where she studies with Ruth Falcon, is the soprano soloist at the Church of the Resurrection, and is on the faculties of P.S. 129Q, Music in Chappaqua, and the Brooklyn-Queens Conservatory of Music.

 

As winner of the American Berlin Opera Foundation, Inc. Scholarship she came to the Deutsche Oper Berlin in 2004, where she performed the roles of Frasquita in Carmen, Azema in Semiramide, Priestess in Aida, First Lady in Die Zauberflöte, Gerhilde in Die Walküre, Barbarina in Le nozze di Figaro, Musetta in La Bohème and other roles. In 2005, she made her début with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra in a July 4th Concert. She will return to the Deutsche Oper Berlin in the 2005/2006 season, appearing in Das Traumfresserchen and Il Trittico.