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MARGUERITE KRULL (soprano) began the 2003-2004 season with a critically acclaimed Lyric Opera of Chicago debut as Cherubino.  Calling her "a remarkably stylish musician," John von Rhein of the Chicago Tribune dubbed her performance "the big news" of the evening.  She went on to make a debut with the National Symphony Orchestra and Leonard Slatkin, as the title role in a semi-staged version of Ravel's L'enfant et les sortilèges, of which  Baltimore Sun said "Her warm, flexible voice and superbly detailed phrasing had a disarming impact."  Miss Krull's 2002-03 season began with debuts in Lausanne, Bordeaux and Madrid as the title role of Martin y Soler's La Capricciosa Corretta, a role she then recorded for the Naïve/Naxos record label, with Christophe Rousset and Les Talens Lyriques, released Spring, 2004.  She continued the season with a debut in Leipzig as the title role of Melani's L'Empio Punito, the first operatic treatment of the Don Juan story.  Her 2001-2002 season saw returns to Washington Opera as Despina in Così fan tutte and Baltimore Opera as Pamina in Die Zauberflöte.  In the summer of that season, she returned to the Caramoor International Musical Festival to sing Desdemona in Rossini's Otello, her Willow Song being hailed by Opera News as "the most finely shaded and shaped singing of the evening, for which the audience rewarded her with the highest compliment: awed silence."

Miss Krull's 2000-2001 season began with a Berkshire Opera debut as Giulietta in I Capuleti e i Montecchi,  praised by the press as "ethereal, an ideal stage picture of the emotionally vulnerable teenager, there was an affecting poignancy in her secure singing; and she possesses the requisite trills and coloratura facility to create vocal fireworks."  She then returned to New York City Opera in Le Nozze di Figaro as Cherubino and was hailed by the Dallas Morning News as "a brilliant standout."  Other debuts that season included Austin Lyric Opera as Micaela in Carmen, and a Carnegie Hall debut as the soprano soloist in the Mozart Requiem.  In 1999, Ms. Krull made a critically acclaimed South American debut as Marie in La Fille du régiment at the Teatro Colón in Bogotá, after which she was immediately asked to step into the role of Oscar in Un Ballo in maschera, with only a week to learn the role, and was praised for her performance by press and public alike.  In that same season, she made her Baltimore Opera debut in a soprano version of the title role of La Cenerentola, and returned to Washington Opera as Sesto in Giulio Cesare.  Other recent engagements of note have been her New York City Opera debut in the title role of L'enfant et les sortilèges; Ninetta in La Gazza ladra and a recital with pianist Garrick Ohlsson, both at Caramoor; a United Kingdom debut as Fiorilla in Il Turco in Italia with Broomhill Opera; Don Ramiro in La Finta Giardiniera at both Washington Opera and Glimmerglass Opera and Sesto in Giulio Cesare with the Boston Handel and Haydn Society under the baton of Christopher Hogwood.  On the concert and oratorio stage she has sung a varied number of works, including Harbison's Mirabei Songs with the New York Philharmonic, Barber's Knoxville, Summer of 1915 with Richmond Symphony (IN), Bach's St. Matthew Passion at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (staged by Jonathan Miller), Bach's Magnificat and B Minor Mass with the Bethlehem Bach Choir, Mozart's Mass in C Minor with the Buffalo Philharmonic, the Mozart Requiem with the Orlando Philharmonic, Mozart's Exultate, jubilate and Mahler's Fourth Symphony with Peoria Symphony, and Pergolesi's La Morte di San Giuseppe with the New York Collegium.

Other conductors with whom Ms. Krull has collaborated include Patrick Summers, Sir Andrew Davis, Heinz Fricke, Jane Glover, George Manahan, Stewart Robertson, Fabio Biondi, Will Crutchfield, Karen Keltner and Bernard Labadie.  She has worked with with stage directors such as Jonathan Miller, Mark Lamos, Simon Callow, Sir Peter Hall, Michael Hampe, Frank Corsaro, Dona D. Vaughn, Dorothy Danner, and David Gately.  A 2000 winner of the Sullivan Foundation Awards, Ms. Krull was also the 1997 recipient of the prestigious Marian Anderson Foundation Award.  She is a recipient of the Richard R. Gold Career Grant and has been spotlighted twice in Opera News's "Keep your eye on" column.  A native of Ann Arbor, Michigan, Ms. Krull received her Bachelor of Music degree in Piano Performance from Peabody Conservatory and her Masters degree in Voice Performance from the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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