Thea Lobo, mezzo-soprano

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Dubbed "excellent", "impeccable", "limpidly beautiful", "stunning," and "Boston's best", mezzo-soprano Thea Lobo has appeared under conductors Harry Christophers, Simon Carrington, Martin Pearlman and Helmut Rilling, and has been featured by the Handel & Haydn Society, Carmel Bach Festival, Firebird Ensemble, Opera Boston Underground, The Bermuda Festival, and Europäisches Musikfest Stuttgart. In 2009 Ms. Lobo toured Japan performing Bach's St. Matthew Passion with Cambridge Concentus under the direction of Joshua Rifkin. She performed the roles of Orgando in Handel's Amadigi with Boston Baroque, Third Lady in The Magic Flute with the Boston University Opera Institute, L'Enfant in L'Enfant et les Sortilèges with MetroWest Opera, and covered the role of narrator, Xiao Qing, for the world premiere of Zhou Long's Pulitzer Prize-winning opera, Madame White Snake, with Opera Boston. A proponent of new music, she has worked as a soloist under the direction of composers Steve Reich, Howard Frazin, Fred Lerdahl and Christian Wolff. Ms. Lobo was a prizewinner at the Bach Vocal Competition for American Singers, a grant-recipient of the Julian Autrey Song Foundation, a Lorraine Hunt Lieberson Fellow for Emmanuel Music, an Adams Fellow for the Carmel Bach Festival, and a featured recitalist at the Boston Portuguese Festival with tenor Zachary Wilder. During the 2011-12 season, Thea Lobo appears with Emmanuel Music, Boston Camerata, Tucson Chamber Artists, Arcadia Players, Boston Cecilia, Cambridge Concentus, and the Boston Early Music Festival.

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Solo Concert PerformancesOratorio/Cantata St. Matthew Passion (J.S. Bach) Boston Cecilia 2011Mass in C (Beethoven) Bermuda Festival 2011Laudate pueri (Biber) Boston Baroque 2011B-minor Mass (J.S. Bach) Tucson Chamber Artists 2011Wir danken dir, BWV 29 (J.S. Bach) Handel & Haydn Society 2010Magnificat (C.P.E. Bach) Simon Carrington & Canto Armonico 2010Am Abend, BWV 42 (J.S. Bach) Emmanuel Music, Bach Birthday Celebration 325 2010St. Matthew Passion (J.S. Bach) Joshua Rifkin & Cambridge Concentus (Japan tour) 2009Israel in Egypt (Handel) Arcadia Players 2009Magnificat (J.S. Bach) Spectrum Singers 2009Torrid Nature Scene (Nicholas Vines) Firebird Ensemble 2008Testis I, St. Matthew Passion (J.S. Bach) Festivalensemble Stuttgart 2008Die Himmel erzählen, BWV 76 (J.S. Bach) Schola Cantorum & Musica Maris Baroque Orch. 2008Recital/Chamber MusicMusic for 18 Musicians (Reich) Summer Inst. for Contemp. Piano Perf. (guest perf.) 2011Tracing the Roots of Portuguese Song Boston Portuguese Festival 2011Inside the Weatherless Spaces (K. Laba) Tufts New Music Concert 2011Zest for Love Laurence Cummings, Handel & Haydn Society 2010Berlin Exercises (Christian Wolff) Callithumpian Consort 2010Myrthen, Op. 25 (R. Schumann) The Plain Song 2010The Owl and the Pussy-Cat (Stravinsky) Opera Boston Underground 2009Zwei Lieder, Op. 14 (Schoenberg) Emmanuel Music 2009Pierrot Lunaire (Schoenberg) Freisinger Chamber Orchestra 2009Murmurs from Limbo (Steven Rice) Juventas Ensemble 2009temA (Lachenmann) Summer Inst. for Contemp. Piano Perf. (guest perf.) 2008Charm Me Asleep (Daniel Pinkham) Boston Classical Guitar Society 2008Opera RolesVar., Orphée, La Couronne (Charpentier) Boston Early Music Festival (dir. Gilbert Blin) 2011Xiao Qing, Madame White Snake (Z. Long), cover Opera Boston (dir. Robert Woodruff) 2010Orgando, Amadigi (Handel) Boston Baroque (dir. Paul Peers) 2009Amadigi, Amadigi (Handel), cover Boston Baroque (dir. Paul Peers) 2009L’Enfant, L’Enfant et les Sortilèges (Ravel) MetroWest Opera (dir. Andrew Ryker) 2009Ino, Semele (Eccles) Boston University Historical Performance Dept. 2008Third Lady, The Magic Flute (Mozart) Boston University (dir. Albert Sherman) 2008Cidippe, Psyché, (Lully) Accademia d’Amore 2006Lay Sister, Suor Angelica (Puccini) Mass Theatrica (dir. Angeliki Theoharis) 2006Second Woman, Dido and Aeneas (Purcell) Melopoeia (dir. Kate Greenhalgh) 2006Amastris, Xerxes (Handel) New England Conservatory Light Opera Company 2003Special Projects & AwardsAdams Fellow Carmel Bach Festival 2011Grant-recipient Julian Autrey Song Foundation 2010Recording of Torrid Nature Scene (N. Vines) Callithumpian Consort 2010Prize-winner Bach Vocal Competition for American Singers 2010Honorable Mention Five Towns Music Competition 2010Lorraine Hunt Lieberson Fellow Emmanuel Music 2009-10Scholarship Award Austro-American Association of Boston 2009-10Recording of First Voices (Fred Lerdahl) New England Conservatory Percussion Ensemble 2008Alto, Voices of the Stage Handel & Haydn Society Vocal Quartet 2006-7Alto Teaching Singer (commercial recordings) Rehearsal Arts & Sound Mirror Studios 2006-7EducationMaster of Music in Vocal Performance, Boston University College of Fine Arts, 2009Bachelor of Music in Classical Vocal Perf. (academic honors, distinction in performance), New England Conservatory, 2005Voice Coaches ConductorsPenelope Bitzas Michael Beattie Joshua RifkinGary Durham Jean Anderson-Collier Helmut RillingMark St. Laurent Michelle Alexander Martin PearlmanLaura Spaulding Eliot Fisk Harry Christophers

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Ich folge dir nach, BWV 159 - J.S. Bach (Emmanuel Music)

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the owl and the pussy-cat

The Owl and the Pussy-Cat - Igor Stravinsky

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~♦ Jeffrey Gantz for The Boston Globe, Nov. 8, 2011:The vocal quintet… provided drama without melodrama; Lobo was particularly affecting in her “Erbarme dich, mein Gott” aria.♦~ Susie Y. Kim for the Boston Classical Review, Nov. 8, 2011:The other soloists were admirable including bass Robert Honeysucker, alto Thea Lobo, and soprano Jolle Greenleaf.♦~ Andrew Sammut for The Boston Musical Intelligencer, Nov. 7, 2011:The remaining soloists sang their roles and commentaries with passion as well as elegance…Thea Lobo’s rich, attractively plaintive mezzo handled Bach’s many arias for alto; her shimmering entrance alongside two flutes for the recitative “"Du lieber Heiland du"” was followed by a well articulated “"Buss und Reu," and “"Erbarme Dich,"... a fine example of discreet gut-wrenching.~♦ Keith Powers for the Boston Classical Review, Sept. 25, 2011:Soprano Kendra Colton and mezzo Thea Lobo began with a remarkably clear "Christe eleison," aided by a crisp and balanced accompaniment, which set the instrumental tone for the evening.~♦ Cashman Kerr Prince for The Boston Musical Intelligencer, Sept. 25, 2011:The Christe” which followed was marked by rising phrases, hopes of salvation, an eagerness and brightness well captured by all the performers, including the soloists Kendra Colton (soprano) and Thea Lobo (mezzo-soprano). ~♦ David Patterson for The Boston Musical Intelligencer, Feb. 7, 2011:…soprano Ulrike Präger, mezzo-soprano Thea Lobo and bass Ulysses Thomas, were all impressive in their spiritual expressiveness and sonic strategy.~♦ Joyce Tamer for the Telegram & Gazette, Oct. 12, 2010:Thea Lobo, contralto, was stunning in both of her solos and was joined by the beautiful oboe playing of Stephen Hammer on one of them.~♦ Thomas Garvey for The Hub Review, Feb. 25, 2010:If I had to do a quick, back-of-an-envelope list of Bostons' best singers, Teresa Wakim, Thea Lobo, Ulysses Thomas, and Jason McStoots would all be on it. ~♦ Thomas Garvey for The Hub Review, Feb. 20, 2010:...my favorite Boston singers (Teresa Wakim, Jason McStoots, Thea Lobo and Ulysses Thomas). ~♦ Mary Elizabeth Nordstrom for Classical Voice of New England, Feb. 12, 2010:The alto [Thea Lobo]... was also impeccable. ♦~ David Weininger for The Boston Globe, Jan. 25, 2010:Paula Downes was the soprano and Thea Lobo the mezzo in the Vines, and both were excellent. ~♦ Mary Wallace Davidson for The Boston Musical Intelligencer, Jan. 23, 2010:[Vines] makes frequent use of vocalized sighs (often sounding like shrieks), and distortions of mouth shapes (thus the sounds they emit). The singers, Paula Downes and Thea Lobo, were comfortable and almost playful in their role.♦~ Charles Warren for The Berkshire Review for the Arts, Jan. 12, 2010:Two Songs, opus 14, very directly expressive works, attractively sung by mezzo Thea Lobo, accompanied by Mr. Wyner. ~♦ Geoffrey Wieting for the Boston Musical Intelligencer, Nov. 23, 2009:In two arias and a duet with tenor, mezzo soprano Thea Lobo used her limpidly beautiful tone as a means to an expressive end.~♦ Lloyd Schwartz for The Phoenix, Nov. 12, 2009:Schoenberg's two Opus 14 songs performed with great warmth by mezzo-soprano Thea Lobo and Wyner. ♦~ Christoph Wolff for The Boston Musical Intelligencer, Oct. 1, 2009:… Thea Lobo with her clear mezzo… ~♦ Boston Theatre Review, Sept. 19, 2009:I did appreciate the fine performance... of singers Thea Lobo and Owen Mcintosh. ~♦ Marvin J. Ward for Classical Voice of New England, Apr. 18, 2009:First-timer alto Thea Lobo will be welcome to return. ~ Soho the Dog, June 23, 2008:Helmut Lachenmann's "temA" found mezzo-soprano Thea Lobo, flutist Miller, and cellist Rachel Arnold crisp and crazy, gracefully surmounting each new extended technique.♦~ Thomas Garvey for The Hub Review, Nov. 13, 2007:...to the interwoven, so-gorgeous-they-nearly-droop vocal lines of the famous duet from Lakmé (here warbled by Kristi Vrooman and Thea Lobo, who do it so well they could make a small career of it).

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Tour Upcoming201222 January - Sanders Theater, Cambridge - 3pm Verdi's Falstaff (ensemble)29 January - Emmanuel Music - Emmanuel Church, Boston - 10am Cantata BWV 78, J.S. Bach (soloist)5 February - Cambridge Concentus - First Church, Cambridge - 3pm Lord Nelson Mass, Haydn (soloist)11 February - Zumix - Boston, MA fundraiser concert (soloist)17, 18, 19 February - Tucson Chamber Artists - Tucson, AZ Brahms's Requiem (ensemble)3, 4 March - Longfellow Chorus - Portland, ME Scenes from the Saga of King Olaf, Elgar (ensemble)18 March - Emmanuel Music - Shalin Liu Perf. Cent., Rockport, MA - 3pm The Splendor of the Baroque (soloist and ensemble)30 March, 1 April - Handel & Haydn Society - Symphony Hall - 7:30pm, 3pm Bach's St. Matthew Passion (ensemble)14 April - Emmanuel Music - Emmanuel Church, Boston - 8pm La Clemenza di Tito, Mozart (ensemble)15 April - NEC Percussion Ensemble - Jordan Hall, Boston - 7:30pm Sippal, dobbal, nadihegeduvel, Ligeti (soloist)27, 29 April - Handel & Haydn Society - Symphony Hall, Boston - 8pm, 3pm Mozart's Coronation Mass (ensemble) 4, 5 May - Boston Baroque - Jordan Hall, Boston - 8pm Gluck's Orpheo ed Euridice (ensemble)6 May - Cambridge Concentus - First Church, Cambridge - 3pm Cantata 23, J.S. Bach (soloist)9 May - Boston Concerto Soloists 1 November - Callithumpian Consort - Gardner Museum Omaggio a Gyorgy Kurtag, Nono (soloist) Recent201116, 17 December - Arcadia Players Handel's Messiah (soloist and ensemble)15, 18 December - Handel & Haydn Society - Jordan Hall, Boston - 8pm, 3pm A Bach Christmas (soloist and ensemble)11 December - Emmanuel Music - Emmanuel Church, Boston - 10am Cantata BWV 132, J.S. Bach (soloist)1, 2 December - Gerald Gray, conductor - Fredonia, NY and Buffalo, NY Handel's Messiah (soloist)26, 27 November - Boston Early Music Festival - Jordan Hall, Boston - 8pm, 3pm Orphee & La Couronne de Fleurs, Charpentier (soloist and ensemble)6 November - Boston Cecilia - Jordan Hall, Boston - 2pm Bach's St. Matthew Passion (soloist)21, 22 October - Boston Baroque - Jordan Hall, Boston - 8pm Haydn's The Creation (soloist and ensemble)16 October - Emmanuel Music - Emmanuel Church, Boston - 10am Cantata BWV 139, J.S. Bach (soloist)24 September - Emmanuel Music - Emmanuel Church, Boston - 8pm Bach's B-minor Mass (soloist and ensemble)15, 18 September - Cambridge Concentus - Elmira, NY and Cambridge, MA J.S. Bach's Cantata BWV 147a (soloist)11 September - Tucson Chamber Artists - Centennial Hall, Tucson, AZ - 3pm Mozart's Requiem (soloist)27, 28 August - Boston Camerata - Classique au Vert, Paris, France - 4pm Saw Ye My Hero and An American Vocalist (soloist)30 July - Carmel Bach Festival - Sunset Center Theater, Carmel, CA - 1:30pm Adams Showcase (soloist)27 July - Carmel Bach Festival - Carmel Mission Basilica - 8:30pm Cecilian Odes of Purcell, Britten and Handel (ensemble)24 July - Carmel Bach Festival - Sunset Center Theater, Carmel, CA - 2:30pm J.S. Bach's St. John Passion (ensemble)20 July - Carmel Bach Festival - Carmel Mission Basilica - 8:30pm Cecilian Odes of Purcell, Britten and Handel (ensemble)17 July - Carmel Bach Festival - Sunset Center Theater, Carmel, CA - 2:30pm J.S. Bach's St. John Passion (ensemble)25 June - SICPP - Brown Hall, NEC Music for 18 Musicians, Steve Reich (guest soloist)14, 15 June - The Bermuda Festival Mass in C, Beethoven (soloist)21 May - Exsultemus - Second Church, Newton, MA - 8pm Ew'ge quelle, milder Strom, Telemann (soloist)12, 15 May - Handel & Haydn Society - Memorial Church, Harvard - 8pm, 4pm Cantatas of J.S. Bach (ensemble)6, 7 May - Boston Baroque - Jordan Hall - 7:30pm Les Indes Galantes, Rameau (ensemble)5 May - Boston Portuguese Festival Featured recital with tenor Zachary Wilder (soloist)29 April, 1 May - Handel & Haydn Society - Symphony Hall, Boston - 8pm, 3pm Mozart's Requiem (ensemble)22 April - Tufts New Music Concert - 12pm Inside the Weatherless Spaces, Kevin Laba (soloist)3 April - Emmanuel Music - Emmanuel Church, Boston - 10am Cantata BWV 85, J.S. Bach (soloist)1,2,3 April - Handel & Haydn Society - Boston anc Cambridge, MA - 8pm, 3pm "Harry's Vocal Voyage" (ensemble)15-21 March - Junges Stuttgarter Bach Ensemble - Stuttgart and Eisenach St. John Passion, J.S. Bach (ensemble)6 March - Exsultemus - First Lutheran Church, Boston - 3pm Passa da pena in pena, Hasse (soloist) 4, 5 March - Boston Baroque - Jordan Hall, Boston - 8pm Monteverdi, Buxtehude, Biber, Handel (soloist and ensemble)25, 26, 27 February - Longfellow Chorus - Portland, ME Longfellow festival (ensemble)18, 19, 20 February - Tucson Chamber Artists - Tucson, AZ B-minor Mass, J.S. Bach (soloist)6 February - Cambridge Concentus - First Church, Cambridge - 3pm Cantata BWV 8, J.S. Bach (soloist)6 February - Emmanuel Music - Emmanuel Church, Boston - 10am Dominican Vespers K. 321, Mozart (soloist)30 January - Emmanuel Music - Emmanuel Church, Boston - 10am Cantata BWV 45, J.S. Bach (soloist)22 January - Exsultemus - Second Church, Newton - 8pm Ist Widerwärtigkeit den Frommen eigen, Telemann (soloist)

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