SINGERS 2009

 

 

 

 

 

Leah Crocetto, soprano, is a first-year Adler Fellow with San Francisco Opera. As a 2008 member of the Merola Opera Program, Crocetto performed scenes as Norina (Don Pasquale) and the title role of Manon in the Schwabacher Summer Concert where she was praised for her work by San Francisco Classical Voice saying: “In thirty years of exciting discoveries, listening to each group of Merolini for the first time, I have never experienced a singer as complete and awesome as Crocetto”. Crocetto has been said to have the “irresistibly penetrating voice of Birgit Nilsson, but more beautiful”. She has worked with Riccardo Muti and the Chicago Symphony on the Verdi Requiem, and will perform this piece with Gustavo Dudamel and the LA Philharmonic in November 2009. Crocetto is a former member of the Sarasota Opera Apprentice Artists Program where she received the Sarasota Opera Guild Excellence in Performance award. She is a 2008 Shoshana Foundation Award winner, second place winner in the Florida Suncoast Opera Guild Competition, a former winner of the Bel Canto Foundation Competition and the Italian American Foundation Award. She was also an Anna Maria di Panni Bel Canto finalist, a Metropolitan Opera National Council District winner and Regional Finals Second Place winner.