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Maria Ferrante
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Maria Ferrante is an American soprano, who has had an active career as a soloist in opera and oratorio, and as a recitalist. Biography Ferrante was born Worcester, Massachusetts. She initally studied guitar at college but then turned to singing. She studied voice with Franco Corelli and his wife for three years, commuting to New York three times a week for lessons, and then later with Sharon Daniels in Boston and Noel Velasco in Providence, Rhode Island. Another mentor was Jeffrey Rink, the conductor of the Newton Symphony and director of Chorus pro Musica, who cast her in their concert performances of Verdi and Puccini operas, including Liu in Turandot (1998), Desdemona in Otello (2000), and the title role in Madama Butterfly (2003). In 2010, she reprised Madama Butterfly in a concert performance of the opera by the Northwest Florida Symphony Orchestra Concerts and recitals *Queens (NY) Symphony Orchestra, Operatic Arias & J.S. Bach Cantata 109 *Delaware Symphony Orchestra, Operatic Arias *Charleston (SC) Symphony Orchestra, Orff: Carmina Burana *Newton Symphony (Boston), Operatic Arias *The Concert Society Chamber Orchestra, Newtown, CT, Vivaldi, Nisi Dominus,Operatic Arias *Nashua Symphony, NH, Operatic Arias, Orff, Carmina Burana *Worcester Chorus & Festival Orchestra, Handel Messiah, Operatic Arias *Thayer Symphony Orchestra (MA), Operatic Arias and holiday music *Symphony Space, NYC, Villa-Lobos, Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5 *Indian Hill Symphony, Concord, MA, Beethoven’s Ninth *Mohawk Trail Concerts Benefit Featured Soloist, 1997, 1998, 2001, 2003 *University of Vermont Land Concert Series, Burlington, VT *BankBoston Showcase Series, 1999 *Massachusetts International Festival of the Arts, 1999 *Boston Chamber Ensemble *Bay Chamber Concerts *Chamber Music Foundation Of New England *American Women’s Composers Boston and Washington DC, *King’s Chapel, Boston *City of Reading River Festival, Pennsylvania *The Great Music Series, Provincetown, MA 1999, 2001 *Massachusetts International Festival of the Arts, 1997 *The Brattleboro Music Center, Blanche Honeggeric Moyse, Artistic Director, 1999 *Frederick Historic Piano Collection, Ashburnham, MA, (New York Times Nov.22, 2001) *Great Waters Music Festival, (NH),operatic arias, multiple appearances *Andover Chamber Music Series, Andover, MA *National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC *The Abigail Adams Museum, New York City *Opera North, Dartmouth College *Kosciusko Foundation, NYC - Recital with The New York Ensemble for the Romantic Century, 2003 *Ribbons of Hope (concert with Richard Wilbur and Anne Koscielny), Amherst College, 2001 *Boston Ballet, Villa-Lobos, Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5, 1997 Premieres Japan- Otowa Chamber Concerts, Shingha Prefecture, Japan, first American vocal recital, 1998 Cambridge, MA - Jose Nunes Garcia, “Requiem in D Minor” & “Tota Pulchra Es Maria”, 1999 St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands-Joseph Summer’s The Shakespeare Concerts, 2002 & 2003 Works by Joseph Summer, Anna Maria College, 2003 Prague, Czech Republic- Works of Joseph Summer with MMC Productions, 2002, Albany Records “Gallop Apace”, Joseph Summer Eight previously unrecorded 19th Century Salon Songs on Best Kept Secrets compact disc Worcester, MA,-John M. McGinn, “Fire and Straw”, Clark University, 2003 Amherst, MA-Arnold Black, “A Summer Morning”, with Richard Wilbur and Dorothy Larson, 1997 Opera performances *Madame Butterfly as Cho Cho San; Florida Northwest Symphony, Niceville FL *Madama Butterfly as Cho Cho San; The Newton Symphony, Newton MA *Otello as Desdemona, Jordan Hall; Boston MA *Aida as Sacerdotessa; The Springfield Symphony, Springfield MA *Turandot as Liù; Jordan Hall, Boston MA *La Traviata as Violetta; Opera Lowell, Cambridge MA *Così Fan Tutte as Despina; Bel Canto Opera, Providence RI *Die Fledermaus as Rosalinda; Ralynmor Opera Company, Keene NH *Rights at the Well as Beloved Paramita; Technical Productions, NYC *Die Zauberflöte as Pamina; Opera New England, Boston MA *La Bohème as Mimì; Longwood Opera, Boston MA *Un Ballo in Maschera as Oscar; Berks Grand Opera, Reading PA *The Secret Garden as Lily; Booth Productions, Worcester MA *Hansel und Gretelas Gretel; Temple Opera Theater, Philadelphia PA *La Bohème as Musetta; Temple Opera Theater, Philadelphia PA *L’Amico Fritz as Suzel; Lowell Opera (partial), Lowell MA Discography *Sea Tides and Times, *Best Kept Secrets, *Christmas in Worcester, *Christmas Memories 
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