Recent Guest Artists Include
Shadi Ebrahmim, soprano
Soprano Shadi Ebrahimi has appeared as Mimì in Puccini’s La Bohème and Suzel in Mascagni’s L’amico Fritz with Orient Heights Music, Fiordiligi in Mozart’s Così fan tutte with Longfellow Chamber Opera, as a soloist in Brahms’s Requiem with Masterworks Chorale, Mahler’s Symphony no. 2 with Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, Vaughan Williams’s Dona nobis pacem with Harvard-Radcliffe Chorus, Poulenc’s Gloria and Handel’s Messiah with Coro Polifonico, and Haydn’s Missa in Angustiis (Nelson Mass) with Longy Chamber Choir. She has performed new music by contemporary composers including John Howell Morrison, Paul Brust, Eva Kendrick, and Nikan Milani; she also premiered a song cycle by Gregory Wollenman. Ms. Ebrahimi, who holds B.M. and M.M. degrees from the Longy School of Music and degrees from Trinity College, London and BIHE, won third prize in the Annual Peter Elvins Vocal Competition in both 2007 and 2008. She was also a finalist in the 2008 Capital Region Opera Idol Vocal Competition. She is currently on the faculty at Allegro Music School, MJ’s Music School, and Riverside Theatre Works.
“[T]he main reason to hear Così [fan tutte] when it’s performed again . . . is the superlative Iranian soprano Shadi Ebrahimi as Flora [Fiordiligi]. She not only nailed the terrifying heights, depths, and roulades of this ferociously difficult role, she also got across the pathos of a woman torn by opposing impulses of desire and fidelity. Her second-act “Per pietà,” one of Mozart’s hardest arias, was so gorgeously sung and beautifully phrased, it nearly brought me to tears.”
- Lloyd Schwartz, The Boston Phoenix