Juliana
Rambaldi is also the recipient of a George London Foundation award.
Soprano Juliana Rambaldi began her career as a member of the Lyric Opera
Center for American Artists, the advanced training program of Lyric
Opera of Chicago. During her first year there Ms. Rambaldi won critical
acclaim for her creation of the role of Lady Torrance in the world premiere
of Orpheus Descending by Bruce Saylor. In Chicago she has sung
Violetta in La Traviata at the Grant Park Music Festival, a
role she has recently sung with the Michigan Opera Theater. Ms. Rambaldi
also performed several roles with Lyric Opera of Chicago, among them
Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni, a role she has also performed
with the Portland Opera, and Marguerite in Faust. Other operatic
roles the soprano has sung include: Countess Almaviva in Le nozze
di Figaro, Helena in Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s
Dream, Vitellia in La clemenza di Tito, Romilda in Xerxes
with the Seattle Opera; Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni with Opera
Pacific; Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte with Opera Theatre
of Saint Louis; and the title role in La finta giardiniera
with Glimmerglass Opera.
The soprano’s recent engagements include: Alice Ford in Falstaff
for the Kentucky Opera; the title role in La Traviata and Antonia
in Les contes d’Hoffmann, both for the Houston Grand
Opera; Cleopatra in Giulio Cesare for the Portland Opera; Donna
Elvira in Don Giovanni and Alice Ford in Falstaff
with the Opera Festival of New Jersey; the role of Katherine in the
world premiere of A View from the Bridge with Lyric Opera of
Chicago; Musetta in La Bohème for Portland Opera; the
Celestial Voice in Don Carlo for the Washington Opera; and
the Countess in Le nozze di Figaro for the Florentine Opera.
Ms. Rambaldi’s upcoming engagements include Mimì in La
Bohème for Hawaii Opera Theater, and Mozart’s C
Minor Mass for Boston Baroque.
Among the soprano’s other past engagements are Musetta in
La Bohème with Lyric Opera of Chicago, the Countess in Le
nozze di Figaro for the New York City Opera, Fiordiligi in Così
fan tutte at the Vilnius Festival in Lithuania, and Helen in a
production of George Antheil’s Transatlantic at the Minnesota
Opera.
Ms. Rambaldi has an extensive list of concert repertoire, including
Mozart’s Mass in C Minor and Exsultate Jubilate,
Villa-Lobos’ Bachianas Brasileiras, Carmina Burana, Mendelssohn’s
Elijah and Handel’s Messiah, which she has sung
at Orchestra Hall in Chicago.
A native of the Pacific Northwest, Ms. Rambaldi received her college
training in Seattle. In addition to being a 1997 ARIA Award winner,
Ms. Rambaldi was a 1994 National Finalist in the Metropolitan Opera
National Council Auditions and received a George London Foundation Award.
She was included in Opera Now’s “Who’s Hot”
listing of the best talents of 1995.
Can there be any doubt in anyone's mind that all this reads and feels
and sounds like a major career?
