Lori L'Italien, mezzo-soprano
member - outreach committee
Lori L'Italien, mezzo-soprano, is a master's degree candidate in Opera Performance at Longy School of Music. She is a graduate of the University of Maine where she earned her bachelor's degree in music education with a concentration in voice. Her teachers have included Nancy Ogle, Donna Roll and currently Robert Honeysucker.
She taught general music, band, chorus and dramatic arts for grades K-8 in a public school setting in both Maine and New Hampshire and is now teaching privately in the Cambridge area and as a Choral Artist in Boston's rural schools with Metropolitan Opera Guild's Urban Voice's Program.
She participated in the 2007 Key West Symphony Orchestra Young Artist Program. as a performer and a teacher for the children's program. While at Longy she has performed in numerous scenes, and one act operas. Some of her favorite scene performances include: Cherubino (Le Nozze di Figaro), Annio (La Clemenza di Tito), Hansel (Hansel and Gretel), Dorabella (Cosi fan Tutte) and Meg (Little Women). Last spring she humorously portrayed Prince Orlofsky in Longy's spring production of Die Fledermaus. In May, Lori was a winner in Longy's Honors Competition performing a scene from Adamo's Little Women. Ms. L'Italien has recently returned from Maine where she sang in PortOpera's Maine Emerging Artist Program. There she portrayed Dame Doleful (Too Many Sopranos) to rave reviews and covered the role of Stephano in the main stage production of Romeo et Juliette. She can be seen as a regular performer at Upstairs on the Square singing for their Night on Broadway and Night at the Opera dinner shows. In December Lori will appear in Longy's Early Opera Project performing the role of Diana in Sebastian Duron's Salir el Amor del Mundo.
She taught general music, band, chorus and dramatic arts for grades K-8 in a public school setting in both Maine and New Hampshire and is now teaching privately in the Cambridge area and as a Choral Artist in Boston's rural schools with Metropolitan Opera Guild's Urban Voice's Program.
She participated in the 2007 Key West Symphony Orchestra Young Artist Program. as a performer and a teacher for the children's program. While at Longy she has performed in numerous scenes, and one act operas. Some of her favorite scene performances include: Cherubino (Le Nozze di Figaro), Annio (La Clemenza di Tito), Hansel (Hansel and Gretel), Dorabella (Cosi fan Tutte) and Meg (Little Women). Last spring she humorously portrayed Prince Orlofsky in Longy's spring production of Die Fledermaus. In May, Lori was a winner in Longy's Honors Competition performing a scene from Adamo's Little Women. Ms. L'Italien has recently returned from Maine where she sang in PortOpera's Maine Emerging Artist Program. There she portrayed Dame Doleful (Too Many Sopranos) to rave reviews and covered the role of Stephano in the main stage production of Romeo et Juliette. She can be seen as a regular performer at Upstairs on the Square singing for their Night on Broadway and Night at the Opera dinner shows. In December Lori will appear in Longy's Early Opera Project performing the role of Diana in Sebastian Duron's Salir el Amor del Mundo.