Japanese-American mezzo Kelsey Lauritano is currently an ensemble member of Oper Frankfurt. Here she has sung CHERUBINO Le nozze di Figaro, PAOLO Francesca da Rimini, LICHAS Hercules (dir. Barrie Kosky, cond. Laurence Cummings), THE FOX The Cunning Little Vixen (cond. Jonathan Stockhammer), MUSICIAN Manon Lescaut (dir. Àlex Ollé) and SUZUKI Madama Butterfly (dir. R.B. Schlather).
Previously at Oper Frankfurt Lauritano has sung DORABELLA Così fan tutte, WIRTSTOCHTER Königskinder, MRS. NOLAN The Medium (dir. Hans Walter Richter, cond. Sebastian Weigle), Nur wer die Sehnsucht Kennt, a fully staged Tchaikovsky Liederabend by director Christof Loy, EMILIA Otello (dir. Damiano Michieletto), THIRD WOOD NYMPH Rusalka, ENRICHETTA DI FRANCIA I Puritani, EINE SPANIERIN Der Ferne Klang.
In concert she was Soloist in Bach’s Mass in B minor at Tiroler Festspiele Erl, conducted by Giedrė Šlekytė, and in Mendelssohn’s oratorio Elijah with the Bayerisches Rundfunkorchester, under the baton of Howard Arman. She has also performed with The Oregon Symphony, Boston Early Music Festival, The New World Symphony, Music Academy of the West, New York Song Festival, Virginia Arts Festival, Nürnberger Symphoniker, and Opera Theatre of Saint Louis.
Kelsey completed her Master of Music degree at The Juilliard School in New York City, where she also received her Bachelor degree and was granted the Peter Mennin Prize for outstanding achievement and leadership in music. She is the winner of Music Academy of the West’s 2018 Marilyn Horne Song Competition and has received additional prizes from the Metropolitan Opera National Council, the James Toland Vocal Arts Competition and the Gerda Lissner/Liederkrantz Song Competition. In 2013, she won the Hal Leonard Musical Theater Competition (University Division) and was named a 2012 Presidential Scholar in the Arts by Former U.S. President Barack Obama in Washington D.C.
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News | Kelsey Lauritano
"Kelsey Lauritano also debuts a fabulously profound Cherubino, as expected."
Frankfurter Rundschau
"Kelsey Lauritano shone as Cherubino"
Music Today
"Young mezzo-soprano Kelsey Lauritano sang her way to tremendous success last night with her youthful fiery sparkling timbre, balmy shaped languor, and stormy emphasis of the young lover."
The Opera Lover
"...sung fabulously, especially Kelsey Lauritano, who played and sang Paolo with agile alertness, with her rather bright and yet expressive mezzo sound"
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
"Kelsey Lauritano, in the trouser role of Paolo, had great subtlety and fantastic diction"
Financial Times
"Special mention also to Kelsey Lauritano, Suzuki of great class, as much by the presence, the bearing, as the vocal copy (superb trio of III with Sharpless and Pinkerton), all imprint force and conviction."
Forum Opera
"Lauritano does a nice line in disdainful looks and peppered the Gypsy Girl's Song with a touch of bitterness and a golden ring to her top notes. To her fell the plum title song, delivered alone on stage with heartfelt emotion. She sang Frenzied Nights in traditional "Lieder pose" on the stage within a stage with the second pianist, Nikolai Petersen, Sulimsky as the sole audience member. Definitely a singer to watch."
Bachtrack
"Emilia, excellently sung and played by Kelsey Lauritano, is no longer the friend and confidante of Desdemona, but becomes a small, nasty and wrong-doing sister..."
Opera News
"Mezzo Kelsey Lauritano was in full control--and fine voice--as the title character, crossing the fine line between mischievous and evil, until coming to her senses at the end"
Broadway World
"Superbe Cherubino de Kelsey Lauritano, cette mezzo, à la voix large, s'affirmant à nouveau comme l'un des éléments les plus prometteurs de la troupe de la maison."
Opera Magazine
"In der Hosenrolle ihres Geliebten zeigt Kelsey Lauritano nach dem fabelhaften Cherubino im Figaro zum Beginn der Spielzeit erneut die ideale Verbindung von burschikosem Spiel und einer attraktiven Mezzostimme."
Der Opernfreund
"(...) und Kelsey Lauritano als Fragoletto singen mit funkelnder Exzellenz, blitzblank, übermütig, absolut sicher."
Frankfurter Allgemeine
"Im Zentrum…Mezzo Kelsey Lauritano als Luxus-Fragoletto."
Frankfurter Rundschau
