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Kara Cornell, Mezzo-soprano
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Roles
“Cherubino”/Le nozze
di Figaro/Capital Opera, NY/2009
“Dorabella”/Cosi fan tutte/Hubbard Hall Opera Theater, NY/2008
“Zweite Dame”/Die Zauberflöte/Union Avenue Opera, MO/2007
“Jo”/Little Women/Center City Opera, PA/2007
“Pastore”/L’Orfeo
(Monteverdi)/Stony Brook Opera (guest artist), NY/2007
“Orfeo”/Orfeo ed Euridice (Gluck)/California Music
Festival/2006
“Mercedes”/Carmen/Brooklyn Queens Conservatory/2006
“Marcellina”/Le nozze di Figaro/Stony Brook Opera
(guest artist)/2006
“Pedrillo”/Don Quichotte
(Telemann)/Stony Brook Opera (guest artist)/2006
“The Fox” (cover)/The Cunning Little Vixen/Aspen Opera
Theater, CO/2005
“Miss Jessel”/The Turn of the
Screw/Stony Brook Opera (guest artist)/2005
“Eliza Doolittle”/My Fair Lady/Smithtown Center for the Perf.Arts, NY/2004
“Narciso”/Agrippina/Stony Brook
Opera/2004
“May”/Footfalls/Stony Brook Opera/2004
“Mother Abbess”/The Sound of Music/Smithtown Center for the
Perf.Arts/2003
“Dorabella”/Cosi fan tutte/Bay View Music Festival, MI/2003
“Eliza Doolittle”/My Fair Lady/Creative Ministries of New
York/2003
“Zita”/Gianni Schicchi/Carnegie
Mellon University, PA/2002
“Marie”/Most Happy Fella/Carnegie
Mellon University/2002
“Yar” (World Premiere)/Heliopause (Azar)/Beanstalk
Entertainment, PA/2002
“Sesto” (cover)/La Clemenza di Tito/Opera Theater of
Pittsburgh, PA/2001
“Cherubino”/Le nozze
di Figaro/Bay View Music Festival/2000
“Drunkard” (World Premiere)/The Little Prince (Azar)/Carnegie Mellon University/2000
“Mother Jeanne”/Dialogues of the Carmelites/Carnegie Mellon
University/2000
“Cherubino” (cover)/Le nozze di Figaro/Opera Theater of Lucca, Italy/2000
Partial Roles
“Suzuki”/Madama Butterfly/Lake
George Opera, NY/2008
“Carmen”/Carmen/International Band “Venus”, MD/2008
“Rosina”/The
Barber of Seville/Aspen Opera, The Northport Opera Company, NY/2007
“Hänsel”/Hänsel und Gretel/The
Northport Opera Company, Pacific Opera, NY/2007
“Romeo”/I Capuleti e i Montecchi/The Northport Opera
Company/2006
“Nerone”/La Coronazione
di Poppea/The Northport
Opera Company/2006
“Sesto”/La Clemenza
di Tito/ The Northport Opera Company/2006
“Cherubino” and artistic
coordinator/Le nozze di
Figaro/Smithtown PAC, NY 2006
“Stefano”/Romèo et Juliette/The Northport Opera Company/2006
“Dido”/Dido and Aeneas/Aspen Opera, CO/2005
Solo Oratorio Experience
Fern Hill/Albany Pro Musica/2009
Elijah/Octavo Singers, NY/2008
The Creation/ Troy Music Hall, NY/2008
Sacred Song & Interludes (Galbrith world premiere and recording)/The
Janáček Festival/
Honegger’s King David /SUNY Albany Music (guest artist), NY/2007
Musikalische Exequien
(Schütz)/Williamstown Early Music, MA/2007
The
Judas Maccabaeus/The
The Messiah/Hood College/US Naval Academy, MD/2005
Liebeslieder Waltzes (with Gilbert Kalish)/
Judas Maccabaeus/Stony Brook
University/2003
Messiah/Stony Brook University/2003
Professional Recitals
Solo vocal recital/University of Albany, NY/2009
Solo vocal recital/Bethlehem Public Library, NY/2009
Opera Gala/Meadowbrook County Club, NJ/2008
An Afternoon of Opera/Sunday Musicale, NJ/2008
Venus in
concert/Rockville Civic Center, MD/2008
Hand in Hand, Heart in Heart/Cole Field House, MD/2008
Northport Opera Fundraiser/Mills Pond House, NY/2008
Venus
performs “Songs of Love”/Mulan Foundation, MD/2008
Ways of Love/Unitarian Congregation of Glenmont, NY/2008
Solo vocal recital/Mills Pond House, NY/2006
Teachers
Irene Gubrud (present), Elaine Bonazzi, Mimi Lerner, Peter Lightfoot, Mildred Miller
Coaches/Conductors
Michael Clement (present), Steven Finch, Arthur Haas, David
Griggs-Janower,
Andrew Kurtz, David Lawton, Timothy Long, George Moross, Timothy Mount, Robert Page, Scott Schoonover
Recent Stage Directors
Jeremy Black, Andrew Frank, Jennifer Griesbach,
Jonathan Loy, Mark Meier, Christopher Trakas
Recent Awards
Winner of Civic Morning Musicals Scholarship Competition (
Winner of 5 Towns Music Scholarship Competition (