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| American soprano Kristin Sampson most recently appeared as Annina in Menotti's The Saint of Bleecker Street to great critical acclaim. Additionally, this season with the Rome Opera, she covered the role of Beatrice in A View from the Bridge and was seen as Masha in Thomas Pasatieri’s The Seagull both in New York and in Szeged, Hungary. Concert work included performances of the soprano solos in the Mozart Requiem in Avery Fisher Hall, New York. Last season she made her debut as Nedda in I Pagliacci in Santiago, Chile and also received the Best Female Performer Award for the Mezzo Television Opera Competition in Szeged, Hungary for her performance in the title role of Tobias Picker’s opera Emmeline, which she also performed with Dicapo Opera Theatre. The European premier of Tobias Picker’s Emmeline, under the direction of Róbert Alföldi, in a production that was broadcast live on Mezzo television in over 40 countries. For her performance in New York the Wall Street Journal said “With her big, gleaming dramatic soprano, Kristin Sampson brought authority to the tour- de-force role of Emmeline”. During the 2009-2010 season, Ms. Sampson completed a wildly successful run as Adriana Lecouvreur at the Szeged National Theatre, Hungary, followed by a New York premiere as |
| "fiery Šárka,” singing with “primal force and excellent control” and acting with “resolution and power.” Critics agree, “she is an immense talent.” Ms. Sampson has performed many roles with Dicapo Opera Theatre including Juliette which the New York Sun described as “a strong, lustily sung Juliette that was at its best in her passionate delivery of the Potion Aria,” while the New York Post described her performance as, “…bright-toned and eloquent.” During this season, Ms. Sampson returned to Dicapo Opera Theatre to add Cio-Cio-San (Brescia version of Madama Butterfly) to a long list of heroines performed, which already includes Suzanne (Thérèse Raquin), Hanna Glawari, Cleopatra, Violetta, Mimì, and Pamina in Die Zauberflöte. In recent years, she has appeared with Augusta Opera, National Lyric Opera, Santa Fe Opera and Shaker Mountain Opera among others. A versatile performer, Ms. Sampson’s musical theater credits include Luisa in The Fantasticks, Maria in West Side Story, Anne in A Little Night Music, Nellie in South Pacific and Lady Larkin in Once Upon a Mattress. Ms. Sampson has also established herself on the concert stage, having appeared twice at Weill Recital Hall, once with Pacific Encore Performances, and again singing excerpts of Cristof Bergman’s new opera Piazza Navona. She was a soloist for the Valdosta Symphony Orchestra’s Pop Concert, performed Mozart’s Exultate, jubilate with the Symphony, and Magnificat in D with the Houston Bach Society. She has performed of such works as the Mozart Requiem and Exsultate Jubilate, the Vivaldi Gloria, Britten Rejoice in the Lamb, Earnest Tales of Terror, Handel Jephte, and Bach Magnificat. Also, as an active recitalist, Ms. Sampson has appeared throughout the United States. Most recently, she joined tenor David Katz in performing Opera to Broadway, and Puccini to Bernstein in Long Beach, NY, and presented The Blue Estuaries by John David Earnest at the Mannes School of Music. Additionally, Ms. Sampson performed and recorded music by composers Ismi Kuremoto and Trent Hanna, and recently premiered the song cycle Songs of Death by Trent Hanna, at Sam Houston State University’s Celebration of Twentieth Century Music. Future engagements include a return to the National Theatre in Szeged for the role of Tosca and a concert with the International Opera Festival of Miskolc, Hungary. Ms. Sampson currently resides in New York City and studies with Diana Soviero. |