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Soprano Bianca Showalter has performed in several venues across the San
Francisco Bay Area including Goat Hall Productions, Capitol Opera Sacramento, the
Green Music Festival, Project Applause, Cinnabar Opera Theater, Kent Nagano's
Leather Factory Opera, West Bay Opera, Sonoma City Opera, San Francisco
Composers Chamber Orchestra, and the Sonoma County Choral Society. In addition to
her performances in the Bay Area, Bianca made her debut in Seattle Washington with
the world renowned Northwest Puppet Center as Mozart's Queen of the Night.
Recently she returned to Colorado and looks forward to new musical adventures in
her home state.
A graduate of Sonoma State University where she was the recipient of the prestigious
Person Talent Scholarship award, her operatic roles include Königin der Nacht in
Mozart's Die Zauberflöte, Cunegonde in Bernstein's Candide, Madame Armfeldt in
Sondheim's A Little Night Music, Constanza in Mozart's Abduction from the Seraglio,
Violetta in Verdi's La Traviata, and Holy Spirit in John Partridge's Harden Not Your
Hearts. Locally, Ms. Showalter has been a soloist in Carl Orff's Carmina Burana,
Benjamin Britten's Ceremony of Carols, Mark Alburger's Ecclesiastes, and W.A.
Mozart's Requiem.
Ms. Showalter has been the recipient of many awards including Regional Finalist in
the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions in 2004, First Place Winner in the
Redwood Empire NATS Vocal Scholarship Competition also in 2004, and a special
Encouragement Award from the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions San
Francisco District in 2007.
Bianca recently began her studies with Dramatic Soprano Sheila Smith. Previous
voice teachers are Soprano Susan Witt-Butler, Mezzo-Soprano Bonnie Brooks, and
Soprano Jan Drazek.
Francisco Bay Area including Goat Hall Productions, Capitol Opera Sacramento, the
Green Music Festival, Project Applause, Cinnabar Opera Theater, Kent Nagano's
Leather Factory Opera, West Bay Opera, Sonoma City Opera, San Francisco
Composers Chamber Orchestra, and the Sonoma County Choral Society. In addition to
her performances in the Bay Area, Bianca made her debut in Seattle Washington with
the world renowned Northwest Puppet Center as Mozart's Queen of the Night.
Recently she returned to Colorado and looks forward to new musical adventures in
her home state.
A graduate of Sonoma State University where she was the recipient of the prestigious
Person Talent Scholarship award, her operatic roles include Königin der Nacht in
Mozart's Die Zauberflöte, Cunegonde in Bernstein's Candide, Madame Armfeldt in
Sondheim's A Little Night Music, Constanza in Mozart's Abduction from the Seraglio,
Violetta in Verdi's La Traviata, and Holy Spirit in John Partridge's Harden Not Your
Hearts. Locally, Ms. Showalter has been a soloist in Carl Orff's Carmina Burana,
Benjamin Britten's Ceremony of Carols, Mark Alburger's Ecclesiastes, and W.A.
Mozart's Requiem.
Ms. Showalter has been the recipient of many awards including Regional Finalist in
the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions in 2004, First Place Winner in the
Redwood Empire NATS Vocal Scholarship Competition also in 2004, and a special
Encouragement Award from the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions San
Francisco District in 2007.
Bianca recently began her studies with Dramatic Soprano Sheila Smith. Previous
voice teachers are Soprano Susan Witt-Butler, Mezzo-Soprano Bonnie Brooks, and
Soprano Jan Drazek.
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Bianca Showalter Soprano
Biography
Biography