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  • “As Lady Macbeth, Lisa Algozzini charted the gradual degradation of a woman forced to reflect her husband’s ambitions back to him. Her “La luce langue” — haunted, fearful and quivering with uncertainty — became an elegy for people that she and Macbeth had not yet murdered, and “Una macchia” had a raw guilt to it…her performance was filled with gripping details.” (also featured in the New York Times' Top 5 Things to Do This Weekend)
    Oussama Zahr
  • “Lisa Algozzini has the dramatic soprano capacity for Lady M [Macbeth]”
    Heidi Waleson, The Wall Street Journal
  • “If you are producing Macbeth, you better have a great “Lady M” [Macbeth]…Enter Ms. Algozzini, a diminutive Italian soprano who blasts us backwards with her extraordinary vocal cannon. A consummate performer, she can also bring it down for the intimate moments and takes us on the roller coaster of her inner turmoil. At first a schemer, coaxing her husband to become a murderer and ascend to the throne, her doubts and guilt seize her until she can’t take it anymore. Macbeth is the one depicted as out of control, while Lady M comes to her senses.”
    Loren Lester
  • “Lisa Algozzini’s Lady M [Macbeth] was bold, brittle and fearless. Only when her fate was sealed did her veneer crack. Algozzini soared through the vocal challenges of the role, capturing both the sparkle in the Brindisi and the terror in ‘Una macchia è qui tuttora!’ as she tried to rid herself of that damned spot…Macbeth recedes into the background as Lady M [Macbeth] takes center stage.”
    Rick Perdian
  • “None of that would matter without great voices and acting, and Lady M [Macbeth] has both, starting with Lisa Algozzini. The diminutive Italian-American soprano makes the title role a tightly wound ball of dark energy. Her rich, powerful voice carries Lady Macbeth's unbridled ambition to the skies, whether she's rising from bed, pushing her husband to violence, or mourning an imaginary (or lost?) child. Baritone Kenneth Stavert matches her in strength, intensity and Verdi-worthiness as the thane Macbeth”
    Jon Sobel
  • "Soprano Lisa Algozzini’s Donna Elvira...coped with her loneliness, torment and abandonment...with an incandescent “Ah, chi mi dice mai.” She sang “Ah, fuggi il traditor” and “Mi tradì” with flexible phrasing and resonant warmth."
    Courtney Smith
  • "An ideal role for the small, very powerful Lisa Algozzini who plays a poignant character with precise singing."
    Josef Herman (translated from Czech)
  • Lisa Algozzini as Donna Elvira...is magically old-fashioned and persistent.
    Olga Janáčková (translated from Czech)
  • The interpreters of Donna Elvira and Zerlina are well disposed in singing. Lisa Algozzini as Elvira also adds a remarkable performance.
    Jan Venclík (translated from Czech)
  • ...'Qual fiamma avea' from Pagliacci by Leoncavallo performed by the beautiful vocal color of soprano Lisa Algozzini.
    Roberto Capín Valenciano (translated from Spanish)
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Past performances 2014 — Yesterday

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Semi-staged Double Bill: Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana and Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci, MascagniLeoncavallo

The Singapore Lyric Opera

Santuzza + 1 roles

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Opera
StagedMatinéeProgramme 2 works

Gala: Double Bill & Reception, VerdiPuccini

Heartbeat Opera

Lady Macbeth

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Opera
StagedMatinée

Lady M, Verdi

Heartbeat Opera

Lady Macbeth

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Opera
StagedNew ProductionMatinée

Don Giovanni, Mozart

Light Opera of New Jersey

Donna Elvira

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Opera
Staged

Così fan tutte, Mozart

Music On Site

Fiordiligi

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Pagliacci, Leoncavallo

Opera West

Nedda

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  • Semi-staged Double Bill: Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana and Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci: Cavalleria rusticana Mascagni (+1 More)
  • Semi-staged Double Bill: Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana and Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci: Cavalleria rusticana Mascagni (+1 More)
Opera
Semi-stagedProgramme 2 works

Semi-staged Double Bill: Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana and Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci, MascagniLeoncavallo

The Singapore Lyric Opera

Santuzza + 1 roles

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Opera
StagedMatinéeProgramme 2 works

Gala: Double Bill & Reception, VerdiPuccini

Heartbeat Opera

Lady Macbeth

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  • Lady M: Macbeth Verdi
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StagedMatinée

Lady M, Verdi

Heartbeat Opera

Lady Macbeth

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  • Don Giovanni
  • Don Giovanni
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StagedNew ProductionMatinée

Don Giovanni, Mozart

Light Opera of New Jersey

Donna Elvira

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Opera
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Così fan tutte, Mozart

Music On Site

Fiordiligi

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Don Giovanni Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Rhodes International Festival

Don Giovanni Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Divadlo F X Šaldy Liberec

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Lisa Algozzini ​is a young Italian-American soprano who has already been recognized for having a powerful stage presence and a voice that possesses a colorful, rich, Italianate quality. Most recently she has sung Musetta in La bohème with the Opernspiele Munot in Switzerland which was praised for "setting the perfect scene and the audience's favorite" by the Schaffhauser Nachrichten, the title role of Alcina with the Kammeroper Schloss Rheinsberg in Germany which was described as "powerful and rich in substance" by Der Tagesspiegel, Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro at the Teatro de la Paz in Mexico, Trentino Music Festival in Italy and at the Manhattan Opera in New York, Lauretta in Gianni Schicchi at the State Opera Plovdiv and the State Opera Stara Zagora in Bulgaria, Gretel in Hänsel und G

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Gounod
Faust
Marguerite
Prepared
Puccini
La Bohème
Mimi
Prepared
Tosca
Floria Tosca
Prepared
Manon Lescaut
Manon Lescaut
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Bizet
Carmen
Michaela
Händel
Alcina
Alcina
Humperdinck
Hänsel und Gretel
Gretel
Leoncavallo
Pagliacci
Nedda
Mahler
Symphony No. 4 in G Major
Voice
Mascagni
Cavalleria rusticana
Santuzza
Monteverdi
L'incoronazione di Poppea
Poppea
Mozart
Le nozze di Figaro
Susanna
Don Giovanni
Donna Anna Donna Elvira Zerlina
Der Schauspieldirektor
Mademoiselle Silberklang
Così fan tutte
Fiordiligi Despina
Puccini
Gianni Schicchi
Lauretta
La Bohème
Musetta
Verdi
Macbeth
Lady Macbeth
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