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Elizabeth Futral has established herself as one of the major coloratura sopranos in the world today. She has embraced a diverse repertoire that includes Vivaldi, Händel, Mozart, Bellini, Donizetti, Rossini, Verdi, Glass, and Previn.
She began the 2007-8 season with the Lyric Opera of Chicago as Violetta in La Traviata. She will also appear with Pittsburgh Opera, Indianapolis Symphony, and New Orleans Opera for their New Year's Eve gala. She will give a recital at Julliard with Margo Garrett and sing concerts with Minneapolis Symphony and Long Beach Opera. Later in the season she will appear with San Diego Opera and Fort Worth Opera.
This past season she returned to Vancouver Opera for a concert performance of I Puritani, the Metropolitan Opera for the world premiere of Tan Dun’s new opera The First Emperor and I Puritani, New York City Opera for Semele, and Baltimore Opera for L'assedio di Corinto. This summer she made her debut in Vienna at the historic Teater an der Wien for Le Nozze di Figaro.
In the fall of 2005 Ms. Futral performed Ricky Ian Gordon’s Orpheus and Euridice as part of Great Performers at Lincoln Center. That season also included Adina in L'elisir d'amore for Washington National Opera and Violetta in La Traviata for Los Angeles Opera. Other highlights of past seasons include La traviata with Berlin State Opera; Rigoletto at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona; Elvira in I Puritani with the Baltimore Opera; the title role in Daphne with the New York City Opera; Sophie in Der Rosenkavalier with Los Angeles Opera; touring to Japan with the Bayerische Staatsoper as Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro conducted by Zubin Mehta; the Brahms Requiem and Krenek’s Die Nachtigall with the San Francisco Symphony under the direction of Michael Tilson Thomas; Lucia di Lammermoor with Dallas Opera conducted by Richard Bonynge, and with Teatro Municipal in Santiago; and Curley's Wife in Of Mice and Men with Houston Grand Opera. Recitals have included visits to Chicago, Washington, DC, Atlanta, Los Alamos, NM, and Philadelphia.
Ms. Futral's extensive discography includes Meyerbeer's L'Etoile du nord for Marco Polo, Previn's A Streetcar Named Desire, and Ravel's L'Enfant et les sortilèges conducted by Maestro Previn for Deutsche Grammophon, and Philip Glass's Hydrogen Jukebox for Euphorbia Records. She has recorded Rossini's Otello and Zelmira and Pacini's Carlo di Borgogna for Opera Rara as well as Mozart, The Supreme Decorator for that label, Lucia di Lammermoor and a solo aria recital for Chandos as part of their “Opera in English” series. Ms. Futral can also be heard on Sweethearts, a collection of operetta favorites on Newport Classics. She can be seen as Stella in the video of A Streetcar Named Desire on the Kultur label, and has been featured on Live From Lincoln Center and A&E's Breakfast With the Arts.
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