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Christina Rohm has been called
"outstanding" by Opera News
and "fierce" by the Wall Street
Journal. She has been
hailed for her "exquisite
conviction and emotion" and her singing has been called "indescribable in its impact,
beseechingly powerful,
yet humbling and
heartfelt".
For the
2009-2010
season, Ms. Rohm sang the role of Harriet
Mosher
in Tobias Picker's Emmeline at Dicapo Opera in New York. This
production also traveled to Szeged,
Hungary
in November 2009 as part of the Mezzo Opera Competition and was
televised on Mezzo TV. In 2010, Ms. Rohm returned to Dicapo Opera to
sing the role of Rachele in the world premiere of Francesco
Cilluffo's Il Caso Mortara.
Other 2010 highlights include Cio Cio San in Madama Butterfly and the soprano
soloist in Verdi's Requiem
with Gateway
Classical Music Society. Ms. Rohm
was also a featured soloist in the "Bel
Canto: Showcasing the Style"
masterclass with Jane Marsh presented by the Metropolitan Opera Guild
and performed several
recitals of Spanish song with guitarist, Larry Del Casale. Upcoming performances
include the title roles in Madama
Butterfly with Bleecker Street Opera, Tosca with Regina Opera, and Ann
Putnam in The Crucible with
Empire Opera.
Other
opera
credits
include Micaela (Carmen) with
Treasure Coast Opera Society, Inc.; Cio Cio San (Madama Butterfly)
with Opera Company of the
Highlands and Dicapo Opera Theatre (student matinee); Hanna Glawari (The
Merry Widow) with Pineda Lyric Opera Company; Marguerite (Faust)
with Regina Opera, One World Symphony, and Dicapo Opera Theatre
(student
matinee); Nedda (Pagliacci) with Rockland Opera and Riverside
Opera;
Mimi (La Bohème) with Cantiamo Opera and New York Opera
Singers
Association; Rosalinda (Die Fledermaus) with Little Opera
Company of New
Jersey and New York Metro Vocal Arts Ensemble; Leonora (Il
Trovatore)
with Regina Opera and One World Symphony; Countess (Le Nozze di
Figaro)
with the New York Metro Vocal Arts Ensemble; Mother (Hansel and
Gretel) with Liederkranz Foundation; Pamina (The
Magic Flute)
with Dicapo Opera Theatre
and Opera for the Young; Vitelia (Clemenza di Tito) with One
World
Symphony; Claudia (Claudia Legare - New York stage
premiere),
Soprano (Opera
Senza Rancor),
Estrella (La
Perichole),
and Mother (Passion)
with Dicapo Opera Theatre; and Alice Ford (Falstaff ) for
Dicapo Opera
Theatre (student matinee). She has also appeared as Ilia (Idomeneo)
with
Golden Door Productions; Fiordiligi (Cosi Fan Tutte) and Belinda
(Dido
& Aeneas) with Michigan Opera Works; Mrs. Gleaton (Susannah)
and
the Second Lady (The Magic Flute) with University of Michigan
Productions; and Phyllis (Iolanthe) with South Suburban Opera.
Ms. Rohm recently made her debut with The Choral Society as the
soprano soloist in
Beethoven's Missa
Solemnis. Other solo
concert highlights
include appearances with National Lyric Opera in the preview of
Floyd’s Susannah
and in the Verismo Opera Scenes/Pagliacci tour, the world
premiere of
Stan Grill's chamber piece In Their Flight, Great Moments
in Music
in Weill Recital Hall with the Pacific Opera Company, the Hellenic
Music
Foundation Gala in Merkin Hall, and an opera scenes program for the
National Opera Conference in Cincinnati. Oratorio credits include
Faure's Requiem,
Mendelssohn's Elijah, and Handel's Messiah, many of
which were
broadcast on WMBI 90.1 FM in Chicago. Ms. Rohm has toured extensively
as a
soloist with the Moody Chorale in England, Ireland, Scotland, Canada,
Hong
Kong, Korea, and Taiwan and is featured on several recordings including
Handel's Messiah (Moody Productions), Light Everlasting
(Moody
Chorale), and Romantic Greek Nights (Hellenic Music Foundation). Ms. Rohm is also an active
recitalist performing regularly with classical guitarist, Lawrence
Del
Casale.
Ms. Rohm earned her Master of
Music at the University of Michigan where she was awarded a merit-based
scholarship. She is also recipient
of the Giardina
Family Memorial Award for an Outstanding Young Artist; won 2nd
Place in the Dicapo Opera Vocal Competition; won 3rd place in the
Little Italy Soprano Vocal Competition; was a NATS winner in the
Illinois district;
and was a
finalist in the Liederkranz Competition, the Center
for
Contemporary Opera's International Opera Singers Competition, the
Career
Bridges Competition, and the New Jersey Association of Verismo
Opera
Competition.
For information about
her private voice studio, please click here.
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