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About
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Deborah Berioli
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Born in Harmony, New Jersey, soprano Deborah Berioli
possesses a full, rich, velvety voice that soars in the upper
registers. Her distinctive sense of musicality and ability to
emote and communicate, immediately draws the audience into her
performance. Her acting presence has been described as compelling,
dramatic, enveloping and melting, raising the onstage temperature of
many performances.
Berioli’s performance of Amelia in Verdi’s Un
Ballo in Maschera was chosen as one of the years’ top ten best
classical performances in the San Francisco Bay Area in 2005. The
San José Mercury News critic wrote: “The Act II love duet between
Berioli (as Amelia, the heroine) and Bengochea (as King Gustavus III, a
doomed man) was over-the-top beautiful, emotive and nuanced in ways
that audiences are unaccustomed to hearing in San José.”
Most
recently Berioli made her debut in the title role in Puccini’s Madama
Butterfly with Opera San José in San José, California. Her
performances were hailed by critics as a touching, dramatic
success. She performed the role again with the Stockton Opera
Association in Stockton, California in 2008. A resident artist
with Opera San José from 2004 to 2006, Berioli performed eight leading
roles, including The Countess in Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro, the title
role in Puccini’s Tosca, Amelia in Verdi’s Un Ballo in Maschera, Mimi
in Puccini’s La Bohème and Donna Anna in Mozart’s Don
Giovanni. On the concert stage, Berioli has performed in Carnegie
Hall, Orchestra Hall with the Minnesota Orchestra, with Symphony
Silicon Valley, Santa Cruz Symphony, Redwood Symphony, Venice Symphony,
Charlotte Symphony and the acclaimed Mid-Summer Mozart Festival.
Berioli
won first place in the Metropolitan Opera National Council
competition’s Upper Midwest District and second place in the Upper
Midwest Region in 1999. Other operatic credits include
performances with Minnesota Opera, Des Moines Metro Opera, Sarasota
Opera and the Metropolitan Opera Guild. She is also Founder and
Artistic Director of the Venice Performing Arts Series in Venice,
Florida.
(September 2016) Since appearing in our series in 2012, Deborah Berioli has confronted and survived cancer. You can learn more and follow her return to teaching and performance on berioli.net and on her Facebook page . Join us in wishing her only the best.