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Mezzo Soprano Kelly O'Conner's “dark, low mezzo-soprano and expressive stage presence are those of a riveting singer emerged, not emerging…” is how the Los Angeles Times describes this 25 year-old artist who is receiving international critical acclaim portraying Federico García Lorca in Osvaldo Golijov's Ainadamar . Ms. O'Connor created the role for the world premiere at Tanglewood under the baton of Robert Spano and has subsequently joined Miguel Harth-Bedoya for performances with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra at Walt Disney Hall. This past summer she reprised her portrayal of Federico García Lorca in the world premiere of the revised edition of Ainadamar at the Santa Fe Opera in a new staging by Peter Sellars, which also was presented at Lincoln Center in January 2006. For her debut with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, in Ainadamar , she joined Robert Spano for performances and a Deutsche Grammophon recording: she rejoins Spano and Atlanta in summer 2006 for further performances of Ainadamar at the Ojai and Ravinia festivals. Ms. O’Connor makes her European debut in the present season at The Barbican Centre in a performance of Golijov’s Ainadamar Suite with the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Roberto Minczuk. Opera Now recognizes Ms. O’Connor on its annual “Young Artists: Who’s Hot?” list of 2006.
In autumn 2005 Ms. O’Connor made her debut with The Cleveland Orchestra under the baton of Music Director Franz Welser-Möst singing Stravinsky’s Requiem Canticles and she returns in 2006 to sing the role of Meg Page in Falstaff with performances in Cleveland and on a European concert tour. Other engagements of future seasons include Hansel und Gretel with Michael Christie and the Phoenix Symphony Orchestra, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with Spano and Atlanta as well as with Welser-Möst and Cleveland, and Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream with Iván Fischer and the National Symphony Orchestra. Highlights of past seasons include performances with the Los Angeles Philharmonic of Berio's Laborintus II and Dvorak's Moravian Duets with conductors Esa-Pekka Salonen and Iván Fischer, respectively.
A native of California, she holds degrees from the University of Southern California and from the University of California, Los Angeles.
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