American soprano Carla Thelen Hanson is garnering attention for exciting and vocally thrilling performances of opera's leading heroines throughout the country. Of her New York City Opera debut as Puccini's
Tosca, The New York Times noted, "Ms. Hanson made a strong debut as Tosca, by turns fiery and vulnerable, her voice agreeably dark in its middle range and sufficiently full on top" and the New Yorker exclaims "her dark-grained, strongly felt "Vissi d'arte" sailed right up to the uppermost balcony." Of her Tosca at Utah Festival Opera & Musical Theatre, the Deseret News proclaimed her “outstanding” and her “Vissi d’arte” “heart piercing”. Of her recent Fidelio, the InForum noted “Hers is a voice of great power and beauty and she essayed the difficult music with aplomb. Her first act aria was so beautifully done that it received a sustained three-minute ovation at the Friday performance." She received equal praise for portrayals of Maddalena de Coigny in
Andrea Chenier for Mobile Opera, as well as the title roles in
Ariadne auf Naxos and
Norma, both with Union Ave Opera Theatre.
On the concert stage, Ms. Hanson performs with noted symphony orchestras across the country including acclaimed performances of Barber’s
Hermit Songs, Beethoven's
9th Symphony and
Mass in C, Handel’s
Messiah and
Ode to Queen Anne, Harbison’s
Mirabai Songs, Mozart’s
Exultate Jubilate, Orff’s
Carmina Burana, Rutter's
Feel the Spirit, Strauss’s
Vier Letzte Lieder, Verdi’s
Requiem, and Vivaldi’s
Gloria and
Motetto. Upcoming she sings as Soloist for Beethoven’s
Missa Solemnis and debuts Desdemona in Verdi’s
Otello with the Utah Festival Opera & Musical Theatre, is Soloist with the St. Croix Symphony for an Opera Pops Concert, as Soprano Soloist in Bach’s
Kaffee Cantata with the Rochester Chamber Society and a series of concerts and recitals throughout the United States with her accompanist and friend Ainhoa Urkijo.
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