Thea Lobo Mezzo-soprano Thea Lobo, whose singing has been dubbed "excellent," "impeccable," "limpidly beautiful," "stunning," and "Boston's best," has appeared under conductors Harry Christophers, Simon Carrington, Martin Pearlman, and Helmut Rilling, and has been featured by the Handel & Haydn Society, Carmel Bach Festival, Firebird Ensemble, Opera Boston Underground, The Bermuda Festival, and Europäisches Musikfest Stuttgart. A proponent of new music, she has worked as a solist with composers Steve Reich, Howard Frazin, Fred Lerdahl and Christian Wolff, performing their music. In 2009 Ms. Lobo joined Cambridge Concentus to tour Japan performing Bach's St. Matthew Passion under the direction of Joshua Rifkin. She has performed the roles of Orgando in Handel's Amadigi with Boston Baroque, Third Lady in The Magic Flute with the Boston University Opera Institute, L'Enfant in L'Enfant et les Sortilèges with MetroWest Opera, and covered the narrator role Xiao Qing for the world premiere of Zhou Long's Pulitzer Prize-winning opera Madame White Snake with Opera Boston. Recently, Ms. Lobo was a prizewinner at the Bach Vocal Competition for American Singers, a grant-recepient of the Julian Autrey Song Foundation, a Lorraine Hunt Lieberson Fellow for Emmanuel Music, an Adams Fellow for the Carmel Bach Festival, and presented a featured recital at the Boston Portuguese Festival. During the 2011-12 season, Thea Lobo appears with Emmanuel Music, Boston Camerata, Tucson Chamber Artists, Boston Cecilia, and the Boston Early Music Festival. |
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The Ensemble
David Kjar, Artistic Director Marika Holmqvist, Artistic Director |
