Adina Aaron, Soprano

The soprano Adina Aaron is considered one of the most gifted young sopranos to have emerged in the last few years. She is now very much in demand both in the US and in Europe as her busy schedule shows: she received rave public and critical reviews for her Aida at Savonlinna Festival in Finland (July 2008) and more recently for her Aida in Marseille (December 2009) – she was hailed as being one of the most convincing Aida of today (Opera Magazine).The success was such that it led her to appear in April 2009 as soprano solo in Verdi’s Requiem in Marseille with a superb cast including Dolora Zajick, Giuseppe Gipali, Carlo Colombara and Maestro Pinchas Steinberg and to being hired by the Théâtre du Châtelet Paris, in April 2010 for the lead role of Treemonisha.

She has also been praised for her Mimi in La Bohème in Tel Aviv (March 2009) and for Elisabetta in Don Carlo (September-November) which opened her 2008 / 2009 season.

2009/2010 Adina Aron appeared in: Tosca at a Festival in France (July 2009), for the first time as Alice Ford in Falstaff (October 2009), as Amelia in Ballo in Maschera (December 2009). She will sing in Strauss' Vier letzte Lieder in Hartford, in Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony at theTeatro Lirico di Cagliari, and in Knoxville Summer of 1915 with the Rochester Symphony Orchestra. Other upcoming engagements include Il Trovatore in Montreal and Marseille.

Last season she performed Liu in the USA, and in May 2008 she made a successful debut in Germany as Amelia in a new production of Un Ballo in Maschera in Erfurt. 2007 / 2008 she sang in Il Trovatore at the Anchorage Opera, gave a concert performance at the Acropolis in Nice and at the Salle Gaveau in Paris on the occasion of its 100 years anniversary (broadcasted), and a concert of  highlights from Der Rosenkavalier with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra.

Engagements during the 2006 / 2007 season included the title role in Aida for her debut with the Opéra Royal de Wallonie in Liege for which she received huge public and press acclaim and a Homage to Josephine Baker with the Philharmonic Orchestra of Monte Carlo. She performed Fiordiligi in Cosi Fan Tutte with the Israeli Opera, Mozart’s Requiem and Mozart’s Grand Mass in C with the Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra. During the summer of 2007 she performed Tosca at Peynier's Festival de Mont Sainte Victoire as well as at the Festival Musiques au Coeur in Antibes and in Saint-Tropez, in South France, where she was also the guest star in a gala commemorating the 30th anniversary of Maria Callas' death.

Ms. Aaron's operatic repertoire encompasses a wide variety of roles such as Donna Anna in Don Giovanni, Rosalinda in Die Fledermaus, the Countess in Le Nozze de Figaro, Dido in Purcell's Dido and Aeneas, Carlisle Floyd’s Susannah, Micaela in Carmen, Sister Rose in Dead Man Walking, Musetta in La Boheme, and Liu in Turandot, of which the Kiel Nachrichten reported, “Adina Aaron made us pay attention to the buttersoft highest pianissimo tones at the end of the first act and played herself into the ears and hearts of the audience by ways of her touching scene of sacrifice”.

She performed in Franco Zeffirelli's new production of Aida with the Fondazione Arturo Toscanini Busseto (performed in Busseto, Italy, and telecast live throughout Europe by RAI, recorded and released on the TDK label). Other recordings include The Prayer of Thanksgiving by James Newton with the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players and the role of Mrs. Mc Phail in Richard Owen's Rain released on Albany Records lable.

Ms. Aaron enjoys recital work as well as opera. Her orchestral appearances have included Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, Barber’s Knoxville: Summer 1915, World Premiere of Valerie Coleman’s The Painted Lady, and Beethoven’s Mass in C with the Hartford Symphony, Mozart’s Grand Mass in C minor, Coronation Mass with the Voices of Ascension Chorus and Orchestra, Verdi’s Requiem in the University of Missouri Concert Series and a performance of Berlioz's Les Nuits d'Été with the Young Musicians Foundation Debut Orchestra. The Los Angeles Times reported: "Ms. Aaron commanded our attention in Berlioz's Les Nuits d'Été". 

Ms. Aaron was named the First-place Grand Prize winner of the Monte Carlo Voice Masters Vocal Competition for 2005, by a panel of distinguished judges which included Christa Ludwig, among others. Other awards have included the Opera Index Encouragement Grant in 2000, the Licia Albanese Puccini Foundation Study Grant in 2000, first place in the Sullivan Foundation Competition in 1999, first place in the Henry & Maria Holt Vocal Competition in 1998, first place in the National Association of Teachers of Singing Competition for Los Angeles in 1997, and first place in the Vocal Division of the National Society of Arts and Letters Competition for Santa Barbara in 1997. Scholarship awards have included first place for the Performing Arts Scholarship Foundation / Santa Barbara in 1997 and first place for the Young Musicians Foundation / Los Angeles in 1996 and 1997.

Adina Aaron participated in the Santa Fe Opera Apprentice Program and the Seattle Young Artists Program. She received her Bachelor of Music degree in Vocal Performance from Florida International University and her Master of Music degree in Opera Performance from the Boston Conservatory.