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Carol Dusdieker brings an impressive background to opera having sung at Opera Cleveland, Des Moines Metro, Glimmerglass, and Cincinnati Opera while in the respective Studio/Resident Artist programs; all while earning her BM and MM degrees in Vocal Performance and performing for Cedar Rapids Opera, Arbor Opera Theater, and the Bloomington Early Music Festival Opera. She offers the classic dexterity the opera community expects, yet brings an unusually rich vocal color and texture to the stage as a lyric coloratura. With a passion for modern music, Carol premiered the title role of Florida in 2006 with Opera Cleveland as well as Wernick’s Oracle of Shimon Bar Yochai with the IU New Music Ensemble and Dyachkov’s Canticles of Love, Despair and Hope with the IU Contemporary Vocal Ensemble in 2007. In April of 2009 Ms. Dusdieker premiered Doug McConnell’s Songs of Celebration with the Heidelberg Orchestra & Chorale.
Principal roles performed include: Pamina in Die Zauberflöte, Fiordiligi in Cosi fan tutte, Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni, Musetta in La Bohème, Alice Ford in Falstaff, the title role in Arabella, Antonia in Les Contes d’Hoffman, Clorinda in La Cenerentola, Kostanze in Die Entfuhrüng, and Countess in Le Nozze di Figaro. As a soloist Carol has performed Mozart’s Exsultate Jubilate, Beethoven’s Missa Solemis, Brahms’ Ein deutsches Requiem, Handel’s Messiah & Gloria, Bach’s Magnificat, Matthaus-Passion, and Cantata 51 Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen, Gorecki’s Symphony of Sorrowful Songs, and Broadway concerts featuring selection by Bernstein, Sondheim, Gershwin, Roger and Hammerstein and Lloyd Weber with the Toledo Symphony, Cedar Rapids Symphony, Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, Windsor Chamber Orchestra, Heidelberg Concert Chorale, Iowa Chamber Orchestra, and the Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra.
Recent engagements include Beethoven's Missa Solemis with the Ontario Chorale and Orchestra, Handel's Messiah with Bowling Green State University and Toledo Symphony, and A Gershwin and Bernstein Concert; September 2010. Upcoming engagements include Barber's Knoxville: Summer of 1915 in January, 2011 and a Schubert/Shepherd Chamber Concert in April 2011; both with the Toledo Symphony. Carol currently resides in Toledo, Ohio with her husband Thaddeus Archer, associate principal trumpet of the Toledo Symphony.
ROLES PERFORMED
DONNA ELVIRA, Don Giovanni, Arbor Opera Theater, 2008
PAMINA, Die Zauberflöte, Cedar Rapids Opera Theatre, 2008
FIRST PRIESTESS, Aida, Cincinnati Opera, 2007
MARGUERITE*, Faust, Cincinnati Opera, 2007
ARABELLA, Arabella, IU Opera Theater, 2007
FLORIDA**, Florida, Opera Cleveland, 2006
KONSTANZE*, Die Entfuhrüng, Opera Cleveland, 2006
FIORDILIGI, Cosi fan tutte, IU Opera Theater, 2005
DANISH LADY, Death in Venice, Glimmerglass Opera, 2005
FIORDILIGI*, Cosi fan tutte, Glimmerglass Opera, 2005
MUSETTA, La Bohème, IU Opera Theater, 2004
CLORINDA*, La Cenerentola, Des Moines Metro Opera, 2004
ALICE, Falstaff, Cedar Rapids Opera Theater, 2004
PIRAMO, Piramo e Tisbe, Bloomington Early Music Fest., 2003
ESMERALDA, The Bartered Bride, Cedar Rapids Opera Theater, 2002
* Role Covered
** World Premier
ORATORIO AND CONCERT APPEARANCES AS A SOLOIST
Chamber Concert, Shubert-Shepherd, Toledo Symphony, April 2011
Knoxville: Summer of 1915, Barber, Toledo Symphony, January 19-22, 2011
Concert, Gershwin and Bernstein, Toledo Symphony, September 2010
Messiah, Handel, Toledo Symphony, 2009
Symphony of Sorrowful Songs, Gorecki, Toledo Symphony, 2008
American Songbook, Toledo Symphony, 2008
Messiah, Handel, Windsor Chamber Orchestra, 2008
Chronicles of Love, Despair & Hope, Dyachkov, IU Contemporary Vocal Ensemble, 2007
Messiah, Handel, Iowa Chamber Orch. & Chorus, 2006
Matthäus-Passion, Bach, Christ Church Cathedral, 2005
MUSICAL TRAINING
2007 Cincinnati Opera Resident Artist
2006 Opera Cleveland Apprentice Program
2005 Glimmerglass Young American Artists Program
2004 Des Moines Metro Opera Apprentice Artist Program
Voice Teachers: Costanza Cuccaro* & Rachel Joselson
Voice Coaches: Davis Hart*, Gary Arvin, Carol Walker, Valerie Trujillo, and Carol Vaness
* Current
EDUCATION
DM in Vocal Performance & Literature - Indiana University; 2010.
MM Degree in Vocal Performance – Indiana University School of Music, 2005; BM Degree in Vocal Performance – University of Iowa, 2002.
AWARDS
2007 Don Felton Award for Career Advancement – Jensen Vocal Competition; 2006 Opera Company of the Quad Cities Emerging Artist Division Winner; 2005 Presser Music Award for Career Advancement; 2005 Indianapolis Matinee Musical Emerging Artist Winner.
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