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Mount Desert Summer Chorale
2008 soloists
Carole FitzPatrick, soprano |
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Soprano Carole FitzPatrick received her Bachelor's degree from the University of Texas and
two Master's degrees from Yale. In 1988, she went to Europe to pursue a full-time career
in singing. After engagements in Dortmund and Osnabrück, Germany, she joined the ensemble
of the State Theater in Nuremberg. Her extensive opera repertoire includes Mozart, Verdi,
Puccini, Strauss and Wagner, having sung over 50 major roles in German opera houses, including
Hannover, Mannheim, Duesseldorf and
Berlin, her concert work has been extensive as well, including the Brahms, Mozart, Dvorak,
Fauré and Verdi Requiems, Beethoven's Missa Solemnis, and Handel's Messiah, Israel in Egypt
and Judas Maccabeus. Ms. FitzPatrick has also done concert tours in France and Spain.
Recently she sang the "Four Last Songs" of Richard Strauss in Mainz and Bielefeld, and Beethoven's
9th Symphony in Moscow under Vladimir Fedosseyev, as well as Cosí fan tutte, Elektra and Lohengrin
in Essen and Ariadne auf Naxos in Graz, Austria. Last season in Nuremberg she sang "Leonora" in both
La Forza del Destino and Il Trovatore, "Madame Lidoine" in Dialogues des Carmélites, the title role in
Iphigénie en Tauride, and "Gutrune" in Götterdämmerung, as well as two performances of the
Verdi Requiem.
Since its inception, Ms. FitzPatrick has been a vocal advisor for the Nuremberg State Theater's Opera
Studio for Young Singers, giving both master classes and private voice lessons to the participants.
A number of her voice students are now actively working in the German opera system.
In fall 2005, Ms. FitzPatrick joined the voice faculty at Arizona State University. She was featured soloist
in the Mount Desert Summer Chorale's 2006 performance of the Mozart Requiem.
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Robert Barefield, baritone |
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Baritone Robert
Barefield is a frequent performer in opera, oratorio, and recital. He
has performed with organizations throughout the country including the
New Orleans Opera, the Central City Opera, the Arizona Opera, the Ohio
Light Opera, the Evansville Philharmonic, the South Texas Symphony,
the Mississippi Symphony, and the Dorian Opera Theatre. Operatic roles
have included Figaro in The Barber of Seville, Danilo in Die
lustige Witwe, the title role in Mozart's Don
Giovanni, Germont in La Traviata, Sid in Albert Herring,
Eisenstein in Die Fledermaus, the title role in Gianni Schicchi
and John Proctor in Robert Ward's The Crucible. As an oratorio
soloist, Barefield's performances have included Orff's Carmina Burana,
the Sea Symphony of Vaughan Williams, Mendelssohn's Elijah
and Handel's Messiah. An accomplished recitalist, Robert
Barefield has performed programs throughout the United States and in
Europe. His wide-ranging repertoire has encompassed major works such
as Schubert's Winterreise, as well as premiere performances of
songs by composers including David Conte, Simon Sargon and Robert Maggio.
For many years, he served on the opera faculty at the Fairbanks Summer
Arts Festival in Alaska. Since the summer of 2006, he has taught voice
and sung leading roles with Operafestival di Roma in Italy. Robert Barefield
received the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Cincinnati
College-Conservatory of Music, where he was a Corbett Opera Scholar.
He is currently a member of the voice faculty at Arizona State University,
having previously served on faculties at the University of Mississippi,
Southern Methodist University and West Chester University of Pennsylvania.
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