Featured Soloist: Barbara Quintiliani, soprano
October 13 and 15, 2006

When Boston’s own Barbara Quintiliani debuted at Washington National Opera in 2002 as Elettra in Mozart’s Idomeneo, it was heralded as the “start of a significant operatic career.” She returned to Washington National Opera in 2003 as Donna Anna in Don Giovanni under the direction of Placido Domingo, and has sung Gulnara in Verdi’s Il corsaro with Sarasota Opera, the title role in Luisa Miller for Opera Boston, Liù in Turandot with Opera Madison, and Leonora in Il trovatore with Austin Lyric Opera, all to critical acclaim. In January, 2006 she became the first American woman in more than 25 years to win First Prize in the International Singing Contest Francisco Viñas, and was also awarded the Competition’s Verdi Prize and Public Prize. Recent engagements include her debut with Gran Teatro del Liceu as Elettra in Idomeneo, Lucrezia in Donizetti’s Lucrezia Borgia for Opera Boston, and her debut with Teatro Real in Madrid.

A graduate of the New England Conservatory of Music, Barbara Quintiliani is equally at home in the concert and recital repertoire. She has appeared in concert with the National Symphony Orchestra, the Buffalo Philharmonic and the Houston Symphony. A frequent recitalist, she is currently on the roster of the Marilyn Horne Foundation. Under the auspices of the Foundation, she made her Weill Recital Hall debut as part of The Song Continues… 2004 and recently appeared in recital for the On Wings of Song series and the Bank of America Celebrity Series. Ms. Quintiliani has also appeared in recital for Artsong of Williamsburg, the Dame Myra Hess Recital Series, the Phillips Collection, the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, and the Virginia Waterfront Arts Festival.

In 1999, she was one of the five national grand-prize winners for the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions and first place winner of the 1999 Marian Anderson International Vocal Arts Competition, and in 2001 was awarded a Sara Tucker Study Grant from the Richard Tucker Foundation.

A native of Quincy, Massachusetts, Barbara Quintiliani studied with Kathleen Kaun and Anna Gabrieli at the New England Conservatory. The Boston Globe’s Richard Dyer has described Barbara Quintiliani’s voice as “…drop-dead gorgeous, with pearly-lustrous timbre, supple cantilena and high notes that open out into the hall with real glamour.”

Barbara Quintiliani will join the BCO in Handel’s “Ode to St. Cecilia” on October 13 & 15, 2006.

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