ADELAIDE MUIR TROMBETTA –Soprano – Adelaide Muir Trombetta has performed repeated seasons with L’Orchestra Giuseppe Verdi of Milan, Italy, with which she has sung the leading roles of Hanna Glawari in The Merry Widow, Eurydice in Orpheus in the Underworld, Ana in The Seven Deadly Sins, Lilli Vanessa “Katharina” in Kiss Me Kate, and Rosalinde in Die Fledermaus. Other European engagements have included performances with Das Verein Opera in Zurich as well as the opening event for the annual fashion show “Gala Catania, Talenti & Dintorni” of 2009 in Catania, Italy. Her solo credits include Orff’s Carmina Burana, Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater, Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy, Symphonie No. 9, Poulenc’s Gloria, Handel’s Messiah, and Haydn’s Creation. Recently, she appeared with the Lynchburg Symphony to perform Dvorak’s Te Deum and Mendelssohn’s Psalm 42. In December 2011, she will be a soprano soloist in Handel’s Messiah and the featured soloist in the Roanoke Symphony’s Holiday Pops Concert.
Competitive success in the Metropolitan Opera’s National Council Auditions led Ms. Trombetta to Yale University, from whose Opera Program she graduated recently. While there, she performed leading concert and stage roles, among them Musetta in La Bohème, Eurydice in Orpheus in the Underworld, Pamina in Die Zauberflöte, and Rosalinde in Die Fledermaus.
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