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Diana Farrell

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Cio Cio San (cover), Madame Butterfly with San Diego Opera, 2024
Krystyna Zywulska, Two Remain for the California Festival, 2023
Berta, Il barbiere di Siviglia with Pacific Opera Project, 2023
Floria Tosca, Tosca with South Coast Symphony, 2023
Contessa Ceprano, Rigoletto with Pacific Symphony, 2023
Krystyna Zywulska, Two Remain with Lyric Opera OC, 2023
Rosalinda, Die Fledermaus with Pacific Lyric Association, 2021
Lady Macbeth, Macbeth with Opera Western Reserve, 2019
Mimi, La bohème with OC House Concerts, 2019
Floria Tosca, Tosca with Pacific Lyric Association, 2018
Magda, The Consul with Nightingale Opera Theatre, 2017
Miriam, The Scarf with Nightingale Opera Theatre, 2013
Berta, Il barbiere di Siviglia with Opera Circle, 2013
Berta, Il barbiere di Siviglia with Opera Western Reserve, 2012
Anna Maurrant, Street Scene with Nightingale Opera Theatre, 2012
Baby Jane & Peaches, Jerry Springer, the Opera with The Beck Center for the Arts 2011
Floria Tosca,* Tosca with Opera Western Reserve, 2011
Rosalinda, Die Fledermaus with Simsbury Light Opera Company, 2010
Contessa Almaviva, Le nozze di Figaro with Crested Butte Music Festival, 2009
Micaëla,* Carmen with Opera Western Reserve 2008
Amelia, Amelia Goes to the Ball with Dana Performing Arts Series, 2008
Mother, Little Red Riding Hood with Crested Butte Music Festival, 2008
Contessa Ceprano, Rigoletto with Opera Western Reserve, 2007
Second Knitter, A Game of Chance with Dana Opera Workshop 2007
Madame Heartmelt, The Impresario with Dana Performing Arts Series 2007

A winner of the 2023 American Prize, Women in Opera Division, American lyric spinto soprano, Diana Farrell, has been hailed for her “golden voice.” Her most recent stage performances include the titular role of Puccini’s Tosca, Magda in Menotti’s The Consul, and Verdi’s Lady Macbeth, for which her “passionate intensity…” earned high praise as she “consistently sang with beauty and sensitivity.” In 2023, Ms. Farrell will be seen in her signature role of Tosca with South Coast Symphony in Southern California, as well as her role debut of Jake Heggie’s Krystyna Zywulska in Two Remain. She makes her company debut with Pacific Opera Porject and debuts in the title role of Schmitt’s Semiramis. She has also appeared in the roles of Rosalinda (Die Fledermaus), Contessa Almaviva (Le nozze di Figaro), Micaëla (Carmen), Anna Maurrant (Street Scene),  Berta (Il barbiere di Siviglia), Miriam (Lee Hoiby’s The Scarf), and the title role of Amelia Goes to the Ball, among others, with companies such as Opera Western Reserve, The Crested Butte Music Festival, Nightingale Opera Theatre, Pacific Lyric Association, and Simsbury Light Opera. 

Behind the scenes, Diana has garnered attention for her insightful work as a stage director and vocal coach. She is the Artistic Director for Lyric Opera of Orange County, which was named Emerging Arts Organization of the Year for 2022 by Arts OC. In 2022 Diana was also named a Women Leader in Orange County Arts, and an OC Visionary by the LA Times. She has recently become engaged with The Assyrian Arts Institute as a librettist and Resident Master Artist. Diana has become a frequent judge and panelist for competitions, grant committees, and young artist training programs around the country. She has worked as a director at multiple opera and musical theatre programs around the Great Lakes area and for companies like Pacific Lyric Association and Opera Western Reserve.

When not focusing on opera, Diana performs with the Grammy award winning Pacific Chorale. Highlights from past concert engagements include Beethoven’s 9th Symphony Soprano Soloist with Poway Symphony Orchestra, a performances of Strauss’s Vier Lied with Peninsula Symphony Orchestra, Berlioz’s Les Nuits d’été with the Dana Symphony Orchestra, an appearance with the Miami Valley Symphony Orchestra, and the soprano soloist with the Centre Chorale for Mozart’s Requiem and Saint Saën’s Oratorio de Noël. Diana is the winner of multiple awards throughout her career, completing her formal studies with an Artist Diploma from the Cleveland Institute of Music. Diana is currently a student of celebrated Wagnerian tenor, Jon Friedric West.

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