CRISTINA CASTALDI, Soprano

 

Contact:  Blythe de Blasis, Personal Representative

Phone:  217-443-9670

Fax:      217-443-9955

E-Mail: BdeBPR@aol.com

 

Operatic Experience:

 

 

 

Summer Nights Where Opera Goes to Broadway

 

Benefit for Hospice, East Hampton, NY

 

La Bohème

Mimi

Natchez Opera Festival

 

The Mother of Us All

Henrietta M (cover)

New York City Opera

 

“Encounters” Series

Solo Recital

Staten Island College

 

La Bohème

Mimi

National Lyric Touring Company

 

La Traviata

Violetta

National Lyric Touring Company

 

 

 

Dicapo Opera Theatre

 

La Rondine

Magda

Dicapo Opera Theatre

 

Chekhov Trilogy

    (A Visit to the Country)

Nadia

Dicapo Opera Theatre (NY Premiere)

 

Turn of the Screw

Miss Jessel

Dicapo Opera Theatre

 

La Bohème

Musetta

Westchester-Hudson Opera Company

 

Dialogues of the Carmelites

Madame Lidoine

Boston Opera Company

 

 

 

 

 

Roles in Preparation

Leonora Il Trovatore; Desdemona Otello; Nedda I Pagliacci,

 

Concert:

 

 

 

Solo Recital

 

The Kosciuszko Foundation NY

Gloria

Vivaldi

Rhode Island Civic Chorale and Orchestra

Messiah

Handel

 

 

Coronation Mass

Mozart

Kennesaw State College/Cobb County Symphony

Requiem

 

 

 

Gloria

Rutter

 

 

 

 

 

 

Competitions:

 

 

 

Finalist

Classical Production Inc. Vocal Competition

 

Winner

Liederkranz Vocal Competition

 

Finalist

New Jersey Verismo Vocal Competition

 

Winner

Opera at Florham 9th Annual Vocal Competition

 

 

 

 

 

Training:

 

 

 

New  England Conservatory

MM in Vocal Performance (with Distinction in Performance)

 

Kennesaw State College

BM in Vocal Performance

 

Voice

Judith Natalucci, Patricia Craig

 

Coaches

Fiora Contino, Diane Richardson, James de Blasis (dramatic coach), Joan Krueger

 

 

 

 

Conductors:

Tim Lindberg, Anton Coppola, Steven Crawford, Charles Rosekrans. Dr. David Blackburn

 

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