Soprano Adina Aaron is considered one of the most gifted young sopranos to have emerged in the last few years. She is now very much in demand both in the US and in Europe as her busy schedule shows: she received rave public and critical reviews for her Aida at Savonlinna Festival in Finland (July 2008) and more recently for her Aida in Marseille (December 2009) – she was hailed as being one of the most convincing Aida of today (Opera Magazine). The success was such that it led her to appear in April 2009 as soprano solo in Verdi’s Requiem in Marseille with a superb cast including Dolora Zajick, and Maestro Pinchas Steinberg which to her being hired to make her debut at La Scala, Milan in February 2010.
In March / April 2010, she also made her début at Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris, for the lead role of Treemonisha with considerable success. This was soon followed by her début in Spain (May 2010) with Alice Ford in Falstaff for ABAO-OLBE, Bilbao.
Engagements for the 2010 / 2011 season and further have included a Negro Spiritual and Gospel concert at Saint-Prex Festival (Switzerland) accompanied by David Zobel (August 2010), Aida in Essen and at the Stade de France (Paris) -which has been broadcasted on TV and released on DVD- but also a part in Goyescas by Granados during the Radio-France Montpellier Festival in July 2011. 2012 will be the year of her first Leonora in Il Trovatore in Montreal, Massy and Marseilles.
Her busy 2009 & 2010 season included: Tosca for a Festival in France (July 2009), her first Alice Ford in Falstaff (October 2009), Amelia in Un Ballo in Maschera (December 2009), a concert with Strauss' Vier letzte Lieder in Hartford, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with Teatro Lirico di Cagliari, and Knoxville Summer of 1915 with the Rochester Symphony orchestra), appearances and concerts in Salerno, Toulon, Rochester, Essen, and Stuttgart…
She has also been praised for her Mimi in La Boheme in Tel Aviv (March 2009) and for Elisabetta in Don Carlo (September-November) which opened her 2008 / 2009 season.
In May 2008 she made a successful debut in Germany as Amelia in a new production of Un Ballo in Maschera in Erfurt. Further appearances for the 2007 / 2008 season included Il Trovatore with Anchorage Opera, concert performance at the Acropolis in Nice and for the 100 years anniversary of Salle Gaveau in Paris (broadcasted), Marschallin from highlights of Rosenkavalier with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra and several operatic appearances in the USA.
Engagements during the 2006 / 2007 season included the title role in Aida for her debut with the Opéra Royal de Wallonie in Liege for which she received huge public and press acclaim and a Homage to Josephine Baker with the Philharmonic Orchestra of Monte Carlo. She performed Fiordiligi in Cosi Fan Tutte with the Israeli Opera, Mozart’s Requiem and Mozart’s Grand Mass in C with the Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra. During the summer of 2007, she performed Tosca at Peynier's Festival de Mont Sainte Victoire as well as at the Festival Musiques au Coeur in Antibes and in Saint-Tropez, in South France, where she was also the guest star in a gala commemorating Maria Callas' 30th death anniversary.
Ms. Aaron's operatic repertoire encompasses a wide variety of roles such as Donna Anna in Don Giovanni, Rosalinda in Die Fledermaus, the Countess in Le Nozze de Figaro, Dido in Purcell's Dido and Aeneas, Carlisle Floyd’s Susannah, Micaela in Carmen, Sister Rose in Dead Man Walking, Musetta in La Boheme, and Liu in Turandot, of which the Kiel Nachrichten reported, “Adina Aaron made us pay attention to the buttersoft pianissimo highest tones at the end of the first act and played herself into the ears and heart of the audience by ways of her touching scene of sacrifice”.
She has performed and recorded Franco Zeffirelli's new production of Aida with the Fondazione Arturo Toscanini Busseto (performed in Busseto, Italy, and telecast live throughout Europe by RAI, released on the TDK label), Her other discography includes composer James Newton's The Prayer of Thanksgiving with the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, Mrs. Mc Phail in Richard Owen's Rain released on Albany Records label.
Ms. Aaron enjoys recital work, as well as opera. Her orchestral appearances have included Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, Barber’s Knoxville: Summer 1915, World Premiere of Valerie Coleman’s The Painted Lady, and Beethoven’s Mass in C with the Hartford Symphony, Mozart’s Grand Mass in C minor, Coronation Mass with the Voices of Ascension Chorus and Orchestra, the Verdi’s Requiem with the University of Missouri Concert Series, and a performance of Berlioz's Les Nuits d'Été with the Young Musicians Foundation Debut Orchestra. The Los Angeles Times reported: "Ms. Aaron commanded our attention in the Berlioz's Les Nuits d'Été".
Ms. Aaron was named the First-place Grand Prize winner of the Monte Carlo Voice Masters Vocal Competition for 2005, by a panel of distinguished judges which included Christa Ludwig, among others. Other awards have included the Opera Index Encouragement Grant in 2000, the Licia Albanese Puccini Foundation Study Grant in 2000, first place in the Sullivan Foundation Competition in 1999, first place in the Henry & Maria Holt Vocal Competition in 1998, first place in the National Association of Teachers of Singing Competition for Los Angeles in 1997, and first place in the Vocal Division of the National Society of Arts and Letters Competition for Santa Barbara in 1997. Scholarship awards have included first place for the Performing Arts Scholarship Foundation / Santa Barbara in 1997 and first place for the Young Musicians Foundation / Los Angeles in 1996 and 1997.
Adina Aaron participated in the Santa Fe Opera Apprentice Program and the Seattle Young Artists Program. She received her Bachelor of Music degree in Vocal Performance from Florida International University and her Master of Music degree in Opera Performance from the Boston Conservatory.
JANUARY 2011
