Arianna Zukerman

Possessing a luminous voice with "the breadth of dramatic inflection to make for a powerfully effective performance" (Opera), soprano Arianna Zukerman is equally in demand for opera and concert performances. The Boston Globe agrees and lauds her "vocal poise, elegant control of style and dynamics, and real spunk" as elements that continually bring her acclaim on national and international stages.

Arianna Zukerman’s engagements in the 2005-06 season include her New York City Opera debut as Tisiphone, Charito, and Aphrodite in Mark Adamo’s Lysistrata, Mozart’s Exultate, jubilate with the Pittsburgh and Jackson symphony orchestras, Haydn’s Creation with the Huntsville Symphony Orchestra, and Euridice in Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice with the Chattanooga Symphony and Opera. She also appears as soloist in the holiday concerts presented at the Kennedy Center by the Choral Arts Society of D. C.

Arianna Zukerman debuted with Arizona Opera in the 2004-05 season as Despina in Cosė fan tutte and sang Micaela in Carmen with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra at the Vail Valley Music Festival. She joined the American Bach Soloists as soprano soloist in Messiah;, the Rochester Philharmonic in Mahler's Symphony No. 4 and her second performances of Libby Larsen's Notes Slipped Under the Door (a work which she premiered in 2001); the U.C. Davis Symphony in Mahler’s Symphony No. 2, and her first performances of Haydn’s Creation with the University Music Society in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Her 2004-05 season also included performances with Red {an orchestra}, the Vermeer Quartet, the Pro Musica Chamber Orchestra, and at the Savannah Music Festival; and a concert of Bach arias in New York.

Arianna Zukerman recently sang the Governess in The Turn of the Screw with Chicago Opera Theater, for which she was praised by Chicago Sun Times as "a thoughtful presence onstage, and through her expressive eyes as well as her agile voice we could almost see her character evolving …" She has appeared three times with the Berkshire Opera Company: as Barbarina in Le Nozze di Figaro, Anna Gomez in The Consul, and Zerlina in Don Giovanni. She sang her first performances of Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro with Opera Illinois and returned to the company as Nanetta in Falstaff. Her other recent performances on the operatic stage include Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro with Cedar Rapids Opera Theatre, Pamina in The Magic Flute with Chattanooga Opera, Nizza in the world premiere of Donizetti's Elisabeth with Will Crutchfield at the Caramoor Music Festival, Barbarina in Le Nozze di Figaro with the Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon, and in the role of Wilma in the world premiere of Jean-Michel Damase's Ochelata's Wedding at the OK Mozart Festival.

Equally comfortable in oratorio and popular repertoire, Arianna Zukerman's appearances on the concert stage include performances across the globe with the National Symphony Orchestra (Yves Abel conducting), Minnesota Orchestra (Andrew Litton conducting), Israel Philharmonic (Ivor Bolton conducting), Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, National Arts Centre Orchestra (Pinchas Zukerman conducting), Moscow Chamber Orchestra, Eos Orchestra, Seattle Symphony, Pittsburgh Symphony, Colorado Symphony (Marin Alsop conducting), Cathedral Choral Society in Washington, D.C., English Symphony Orchestra, Pasadena Pops, and the Winterthur Musikkollegium in Mozart's Requiem, Mass in C minor, and “Coronation” Mass; Handel's Messiah and Solomon; Verdi's Requiem; Frank Martin's In Terra Pax; and Vivaldi's Gloria.

Ms. Zukerman appears frequently in solo recitals in the United States and Europe and in duo recitals with her mother, flutist Eugenia Zukerman. An accomplished chamber musician, she also performs regularly at the Vail Valley Music Festival and Caramoor Music Festival.

A 2002 Sullivan Foundation Award Winner, Arianna Zukerman was a member of the Bavarian State Opera Junges Ensemble. She studied theatre at Brown University and received her Bachelor of Music from the Juilliard School.