Alicia Berneche, Soprano

Biography

Soprano Alicia
Berneche has become a major proponent of contemporary opera in this
country, culminating in her starring role as Daisy Buchanan in the Lyric Opera
of Chicago's production of The Great
Gatsby in the fall of 2000, for which she received international praise.
Other recent productions include Galileo
Galilei, a new world premiere by Philip Glass and director/librettist Mary
Zimmerman at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago, which traveled to BAM in NY and
the Barbican in London, Les Dialogues des
Carmelites at Portland Opera, Six
Characters in Search of an Author at the Opera Festival of New Jersey, and
the world premiere of Ballymore at
Skylight Opera, which was broadcast on PBS in Wisconsin. No stranger to
standard repertoire, Ms. Berneche recently performed Despina in Cosi fan tutte at Opera Pacific, Adina
in L'elisir d'amore  at Arizona Opera, Norina in Don Pasquale at Kentucky Opera, the
title role in Lucia di Lammermoor at
the Skylight Opera, and Yum-Yum in The Mikado
at Virginia Opera. Upcoming
performances include Susanna in Le nozze di
Figaro at Austin Lyric Opera and Valencienne in The Merry Widow at Virginia Opera.

Ms.
Berneche has also been visible in the concert arena, recently presenting a new
recital of works with poetry by women, featuring such works as Ariel by Ned Rorem with poetry by Sylvia
Plath, and From the Diary of Virginia
Woolf by Dominick Argento. She has performed with the Chicago Contemporary
Players in works by Matthew Rosenblum and Russ Grazier, with the Concertante di
Chicago in Karol Szymanowski's Songs of a
Fairy-tale Princess, and with the Chicago Chamber Musicians in Schoenberg's
Second String Quartet. She returns to the Honolulu Symphony this year as the
soprano soloist in Carmina Burana
after her success last year in Mozart's Great
Mass in C minor.