Julianne Gearhart (Mabel), soprano, a devoted singer of Strauss, has sung Zerbinetta for numerous companies including, most recently, The Grand Theatre Geneve and the New Israeli Opera in Tel Aviv. She recently sang her first Sophie in Der Rosenkavalier for the Seattle Opera with Carol Van Ness. Ms. Gearhart's relationship with Seattle has been close and longstanding. A graduate of their Young Artist Program, she made her mainstage debut in Seattle as Helen Niles in the premiere of the revised Mourning Becomes Electra. Other roles followed, as well as a relationship with the Seattle Symphony, for whom she recently sang Bach's Cantata #51, Jauchzett Gott in allen Landen. Her next appearance with the opera in Seattle will be in the Ring Cycle of 2009, as both Woglinde and the Forest Bird. Ms. Gearhart has performed with Opera North, Seattle Opera, Sarasota Opera, Opera Grand Rapids, Seattle Symphony, The Canadian Chamber Orchestra of New York, Salem Philharmonic Orchestra, Palm Beach Symphony, the Alba Music Festival in Alba, Italy, Grieg Choral Festival in Bergen, Norway, Chamber Music Amarillo, New Israeli Opera, and the Grand Theatre Geneve. Her roles include Blondchen in Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail, Madame Goldentrill in The Impresario, Zerbinetta in Ariadne auf Naxos, Sophie in Der Rosenkavalier, Najade in Ariadne auf Naxos, Oscar in Ballo in Maschera, Gilda in Rigoletto, Nanetta in Falstaff, Olympia in The Tales of Hoffman, Juliette in Romeo et Juliette, Helen Niles in Mourning becomes Electra, and Marzelline in Fidelio. 

 

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