PROF. MICHÈLE CRIDER (AUSTRIA) VOCAL PERFORMANCE MASTERCLASSES
2024 February 20, Tuesday, 10:00–14:30
2024 February 21, Wednesday, 13:00–17:30
2024 February 22, Thursday, 10:45–13:00 and 14:45–17:00
LMTA J. Karosas Hall (Gedimino Ave. 42, Vilnius)
PROF. MICHÈLE CRIDER (AUSTRIA) VOCAL PERFORMANCE MASTERCLASSES
Students of LMTA Department of Vocal Performance are participating
Soprano Michèle Crider is one of the most famous performers of her generation. She has captivated opera lovers and concert-goers around the world with an impressively wide repertoire. Michèle Crider studied voice at the University of Iowa (USA). She has twice won the District Metropolitan Opera Auditions. She left Iowa for Zurich, where she continued her studies at the Zurich Opera Studio. In 1988 she won the Luciano Pavarotti Competition. In 1989 she won one of the three first prizes at the Geneva International Music Competition. As a result of this achievement, Kraider was awarded the role of Leonora in Il trovatore in Dortmund (Germany), and took part in the International Singers’ Grand Prix Competition and won it. She is a frequent performer at the world’s leading opera houses, including London’s Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, New York’s Metropolitan Opera House, the San Francisco and Los Angeles Opera Houses, the Berlin State Opera, the Vienna State Opera, and the Munich State Opera House, Hamburg Opera House, Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Arena di Verona Opera House, Rome Opera House, Opéra-Bastille in Paris, Zurich Opera House, Liceu Opera House in Barcelona and Madrid Opera House. Michèle’s concert career has been a success. She has appeared at the Salzburg Festival, the Maggio musicale Fiorentino, the Orange, Ravenna and Edinburgh Festivals, the Royal Albert Hall in London, Carnegie Hall, the Alte Oper in Frankfurt, and the Finnish Savonlinna City Opera Festival, “Salle Pleyel Concert Hall and London’s Barbican Hall with orchestras such as the London Symphony Orchestra, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestre National de Paris, the Berlin, Oslo and Israel Philharmonic Orchestras, and the Cologne WDR Symphony Orchestra. Michèle Crider made her US debut in 1996 when she appeared in San Diego in a new production of Aida. Later, she made her San Francisco debut in the role of Aida and performed the role of Madame Butterfly at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. The soprano, who has enjoyed a distinguished career, has collaborated with world-renowned conductors Riccardo Mutti, Daniel Barenboim, Zubin Mehta and James Levine, Nello Santi, Christoph von Dohnanyi, Semyon Bychkov, Seiji Ozawa, Riccardo Chailly and Sir Colin Davis. Crider’s repertoire is renowned for the following roles: Leonora in IL TROVATORE and LA FORZA DEL DESTINO; Amelia in UN BALLO IN MASCHERA; Elvira in ERNANI; Elisabetta in DON CARLO; and Luisa in LUISA MILLER and Aida in AIDA; in addition, he created roles in the operas Madame Butterfly, Tosca, Norma, Manon Lescaut, La Gioconda, Odabella in Attila and Desdemona in Otello; Lucrezia in I DUE FOSCARI, Giselda in I LOMBARDI; Imogene in IL PIRATA; Margarita/Elena in MEFISTOFELE; Santuca in CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA. Michèle Crider is currently Professor of Singing at the prestigious Mozarteum University in Salzburg.
Free entrance