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.
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.
There's More To Explore!
Access additional videos on CCM's official YouTube channel
Looking for CCM's School, Stage & Screen podcast? Tune in here
Featured image at top: Teresa Perrotta as Vitellia in CCM’s 2019 production of La Clemenza di Tito. Photo/Mark Lyons
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.
Related Stories
UC celebrates record graduating class at commencement
April 25, 2024
UC celebrated its doctoral hooding and master's recognition ceremony at Fifth Third Arena as part of its three-day commencement for the largest graduating class in university history.
2024 Daniel Drake Medals to be awarded April 27
April 24, 2024
The UC College of Medicine will award three people with 2024 Daniel Drake Medals April 27.
UC education allowed couple to make mark on Cincinnati
April 24, 2024
As a native of Defiance, Ohio, John Deatrick, CEAS ’79, says arriving in Cincinnati to attend the University of Cincinnati in 1963 felt like landing in New York City.