Maria Ferrante
Soprano

Maria Ferrante, soprano, winner of the Mario Lanza Voice competition and one of this region’s most accomplished concert artists has been acclaimed by the Washington Post and The Boston Globe for her stellar musical performances, has appeared in opera, oratorio, performance series, numerous galas and radio appearances. Her operatic leading roles include Violetta (La Traviata), Pamina (Die Zauberflöte), Desdemona (Verdi’s Otello), Liù (Turandot), Rosilinda (Die Fledermaus), Despina (Così Fan Tutte), Gretel (Hänsel und Gretel), Oscar (Un Ballo in Maschera), Serpina (La Serva Padrona), Barbarina (Le Nozze di Figaro), Mimì (La Bohème), and Lily (The Secret Garden). 

As soloist in oratorio, Ms. Ferrante has performed Brahms’ Ein Deutschen Requiem, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, Poulenc’s Gloria, Faure’s Requiem, Gounod’s St. Cecilia Mass, Acis and Galatea, Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass, Die Jahreszeiten, Kodaly’s Te Deum, Rutter’s Requiem, Handel’s Messiah, Vivaldi’s Nisi Dominus- Psalmus 127, and Verdi’s Requiem. She also performed the United States Premier of both the Requiem and Tota Pulchra Es Maria of Jose Nunes Garcia.

Ms. Ferrante has appeared in concert with poet laureate, Richard Wilbur, and with artists, Richard Stolzman, Julian Milkis, Colon Jacobsen, Seymour Barab, Charles Forbes, Sheldon Harnick, Dorothy Larson, Ayako Yoshida, Paul Sperry, Robert J. Lurtsema of WGBH, and Arnold Black. Her accompanists have included Gilbert Kalish, Lincoln Mayorga, Abba Bogin, Xavier de Maistre (harp), Alys Terrien-Queen, and Miroslav Sekera.

Recent performances have included Villa-Lobos’ Bachianas Brasilieras No. 5 at Symphony Space, New York, as well as in a world premier performance of Daniel Pelzig’s Bachiana with the Boston Ballet. This past season she has sung Carmina Burana with the Charleston Symphony. Also, Ms. Ferrante has performed as featured soloist for BankBoston Showcase Series, The Newton Symphony (MA), The Newtown Chamber Orchestra (CT), Harvard’s Landmark Concerts, Harvard Musical Association, Mohawk Trail Concerts, Orpheus Choir of Hexam (England), The National Museum of Women in the Arts (Washington, DC), Kosciusko Foundation( NYC) The Massachusetts International Festival of the Arts, The Bay Chamber Ensemble, Boston Chamber Ensemble, and The Great Music Series (Provincetown).

Ms. Ferrante’s most recently released CD, Sea Tides and Time is devoted to the theme of water and the importance of its preservation.

In Prague this summer Ms. Ferrante recorded works of Joseph Summer with members of the Prague Symphony. She also recently returned from Florence, Italy having been personally invited to study with Elly Ameling. Her upcoming performances include a performance “Treasury of Passionate American Song” with Lincoln Mayorga, piano, and the Coffee Cantata with The Queens Symphony. Her operatic performances will include Cho-Cho-San in Madama Butterfly with the Newton Symphony (MA), and Chitra in Chitra by Shirish Korde with the Boston Musica Viva. And solo recitals in the U.S. Virgin Islands, at the Frederick Piano Museum (Ashburnham, MA) and with the Ensemble for the Romantic Century, New York City.