Soprano, Ellen Chickering ELLEN CHICKERING, Soprano, is well known to Boston audiences. This past season she sang the soprano solo with the Handel and Haydn Society in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony and appeared in a solo recital of works by Berlioz and Barber on the University of Southern Maine's Faculty Concert Series. In previous seasons, she sang two of Puccini's heroines: Tosca in Tosca and Minnie in La Fanciulla del West with the Commonwealth Opera and Boston Academy of Music. In addition, she sang the soprano solo in Vaughn Williams' Sea Symphony with the Portland (ME) Symphony. In May 2002 she made her Kennedy Center debut singing the soprano solo in Beethoven's Missa Solemnis with the Washington Chorus. Later in May she recorded Vanessa in Barber's Vanessa with the National Philharmonic of the Ukraine for the NAXOS label. She made her Carnegie Hall debut in January 2000 singing the Soprano I in Mahler's Eighth Symphony with the Boston Philharmonic to rave reviews. Ms. Chickering has also sung the leading roles in Verdi's Un Ballo in Maschera, Aida, La Forza del Destino, and Il Trovatore, Strauss' Arabella, Donizetti's Anna Bolena, Lucrezia Borgia and Elizabetta in Maria Stuarda, Donna Anna in Don Giovanni, and Rosalinda in Die Fledermaus. She has sung with the Minnesota Opera, Boston Academy of Music, Santa Fe Opera, Merrimack Lyric Opera, Kansas City Lyric Opera and the Connecticut Concert Opera. Ms. Chickering has made four concert tours to Japan singing Handel's Messiah and Beethoven's Symphony #9 with the Shinsei Nihon Symphony and the Telemann Chamber Orchestra among others. In addition, her concert repertoire includes Verdi's Requiem, Britten's War Requiem, and Strauss' Vier Letzte Lieder with such orchestras as the Minnesota Orchestra, the Milwaukee Symphony, the Colorado Springs Symphony, the Civic Symphony of Boston and the Boston Philharmonic. Ms. Chickering is Assistant Professor of Voice at the University of Southern Maine. REVIEWS: 'Ellen Chickering did nothing that could be considered anything less than sensational. It is an enormous voice, but perfectly placed so that it has surprising flexibility and never seems out of control.' The Boston TAB 'Ellen Chickering, a soprano with an unlimited arsenal of bull's-eye high C's (with a shimmering quiet one in reserve for the last).' The Wall Street Journal 'Ellen Chickering's full-bodied Leonora had passion, dignity and an excellent sense of line and dynamics; by her last aria she had convinced many a listener she was a real Verdi soprano.' Opera News 'one artist, Ellen Chickering, captured the essence of what made Callas' singing so special. And she did that in delivering the most famous of Bellini's arias, Casta Diva from Norma, as if no one had ever sung it before.' The Boston Globe 'Chickering was in utterly glorious voice. She sang the heroic, high note-dotted role with fearless freedom and uncanny accuracy.' The Boston Herald 'Soprano Ellen Chickering was sensational. Hers is a huge voice of pinpoint precision.' The Denver Post 'As Amelia, Chickering responded with power, conviction, breadth of phrasing, technical sophistication, and more than a hint of Prima Donna grandeur. Chickering nailed all the tricky passages, attacking soft high notes with purity and poise, and navigating the cadenzas with skill.' The Boston Globe Back to The Artists Page
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