CCM soprano featured in new recording of John Corigliano’s 'The Ghost of Versailles'

Teresa Perrotta sings the role of Marie Antoinette in the queen’s luxurious palace

Recent UC-College-Conservatory of Music graduate Teresa Perrotta (MM Voice, ’19; AD Opera Performance, ’21) has barely left CCM’s halls, but her successful career is already beginning. She is the starring voice on a new album of John Corigliano’s The Ghost of Versailles, which was performed and recorded during its French premiere at the Château du Versailles — the same legendary theater in which Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI were married. On the multimedia recording, Perrotta plays the role of Marie Antoinette.

The new staging by Jay Lesenger was presented at Versailles in December 2019, after its celebrated run at the Glimmerglass Festival. The recording is available for purchase online.

Composer John Corigliano and Teresa Perrotta at the French premiere of “The Ghosts of Versailles.” Photo/Gail Luna

Composer John Corigliano and Teresa Perrotta at the French premiere of “The Ghosts of Versailles.” Photo/Gail Luna

This summer, Perrotta is an Apprentice Artist at Sante Fe Opera, where she will perform as Helena in A Midsummer Night's Dream. Perrotta frequently collaborates with living opera composers. Through Cincinnati Opera and CCM's Opera Fusion: New Works, she has sung leading roles in Kevin Puts' The Hours and Tobias Picker's Awakenings.

In 2020, Perrotta was recognized as a finalist at the renowned Lotte Lenya voice competition, and she has also been a regional finalist at the Metropolitan Opera National Council auditions twice. During her time at CCM, she won the Corbett Opera Competition three times. An advocate for community engagement, she is the soprano soloist in the Lynx Project Autism Advocacy Series in Cincinnati; a collaboration with children with autism and artists to compose and create art song. Learn more about Perrotta on her professional website.

You can listen to Perrotta and more of CCM’s stars-of-tomorrow in the Spring Opera Gala virtual concerts, which will be available for free streaming on June 17 and 18 on CCM’s YouTube channel and Facebook page.

CCM's Spring Opera Gala is a double-casted production: the same repertoire is performed during both broadcasts, but each features a different cast of singers performing arias and duets from Gaetano Donizetti’s L’Elisir d’Amore, Gioacchino Rossini’s Otello, Ruggero Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci and more.

Each concert stream also begins with a spirited performance of the Overture to Rossini’s L’Italiana in Algeri by the CCM Philharmonia and concludes with a rousing rendition of the “Sola, sola in buio loco” sextet from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Don Giovanni.

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Featured image at top: Teresa Perrotta as Vitellia in CCM’s 2019 production of La Clemenza di Tito. Photo/Mark Lyons

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Alexandra Doyle

CCM Graduate Assistant , Marketing + Communications

Alexandra Doyle is a doctoral candidate studying clarinet performance at CCM. Alexandra’s master’s degree is also from CCM, and she holds bachelor’s degrees in clarinet performance and journalism from the University of Houston.

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