| Amanda A. Pabyan | |
| Soprano | |
| New England First Place Winner, 2002 | review  |
Emerging as one of America’s most distinguished lyric-coloratura sopranos, Amanda Pabyan’ performs her wide ranging repertoire in performances both in the United States and abroad, in such presentations as Rossini’s L’occasione fa il ladro and Il turco in Italia, Cimarosa’s Il matrimonio segreto, Mozart’s Così fan tutte and Mitridate, Strauss’ Die Fledermaus, Ullmann’s Der Kaiser von Atlantis, Berlioz’s Béatrice et Bénèdict, Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmélites, Cavalli’s L’Egisto, and Menotti’s The Medium.
Engagements of the 2006-07 season include Die Zauberflöte at the Metropolitan Opera, Opera Colorado, and Pittsburgh Opera, Die Entführung aus dem Serail with Michigan Opera Theatre, and the title role in Gluck’s Orphée et Eurydice at Glimmerglass Opera.
During the past season, Ms. Pabyan was engaged by the Metropolitan Opera and the Dallas Opera for productions of Ariadne auf Naxos, by New York City Opera for Capriccio, and by the Dallas Opera and Utah Symphony & Opera for Die Zauberflöte. She also joined James Conlon and the Cincinnati Symphony May Festival for concert performances of Die Entführung aus dem Serail and returned to Canterbury Opera in Christchurch, New Zealand to sing her first Lucia di Lammermoor garnering rave reviews from the press.
Operatic highlights of recent seasons include Die Zauberflöte at Washington National Opera, Florida Grand Opera, Minnesota Opera, and New York City Opera, Paul Bunyan at Florida Grand Opera, Thaïs at Kentucky Opera, Die Entführung aus dem Serail at Portland Opera, the title role of Lakmé with the Canterbury Opera, and Rosmene in Handel’s Imeneo at Glimmerglass Opera.
On the concert stage, she has joined the American Symphony Orchestra at Lincoln Center in a triple-bill of semi-staged operas by Hindemith, performed the Fauré Requiem with the North Carolina Symphony Orchestra, and appeared in a New Year’s Eve performance with the Boston Pops Orchestra in a program saluting the Viennese tradition Ms. Pabyan has made two recordings of solo Handel and Vivaldi cantatas on the Italian label, Calisto Records.
Ms. Pabyan participated in the Washington National Opera’s Domingo-Cafritz Young Artist Program and was the 2002 New England Regional Winner and a National Semi-finalist in the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. She joined Glimmerglass Opera as a member of the Young American Artist Program in the summer of 2002 and appeared with the Santa Fe Opera in 2001 as part of the company’s Apprentice Artist Program. Ms. Pabyan holds a Bachelor of Music degree in Voice from Rutgers University’s Mason Gross School of the Arts and a Masters Degree in Vocal Performance from Boston University’s College of Fine Arts.
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