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More About Adriana Zabala
Having performed more than fifty-five operatic roles with national and international companies, and hailed by the New York Times as “a vivid, fearless presence” and the Los Angeles Times as “an extraordinary, vibrant mezzo,” Adriana Zabala has created roles in seven American operas and dramatic works, including the title roles in Sister Carrie and The Trial of Susan B. Anthony, and the role of Sister James in Doubt, broadcast on PBS’ Great Performances. Other opera highlights include repeated performances of Cherubino in Le Nozze di Figaro, Rosina in Il Barbiere di Siviglia, and Angelina in La Cenerentola. Zabala has sung the role of Paula in Florencia en el Amazonas across the U.S., and reprised the role for the Spanish premiere at Opera Tenerife. She made her European debut at the Opera Reina Sofia in Valencia, Spain, under the batons of Zubin Mehta and Lorin Maazel in productions of Carmen and Salome. The mezzo has been a guest soloist with the Minnesota Orchestra, the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, the New Jersey Symphony, the Jerusalem Symphony, The Handel and Haydn Society, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, and Berkshire Lyric, among many others, and has appeared in recital at the Kennedy Center, Carnegie Hall, Wolf Trap, the Source Song Festival, and the New York Festival of Song. Zabala is featured on several recordings including the premieres of Pauline Viardot’s Le Dernier Sorcier and on Gregg Kallor’s Exhilaration: Songs of Dickinson and Yeats. Her most recent critically acclaimed release on Bridge records features the premiere recording of four song cycles by Dominick Argento. Zabala portrays Nadia Boulanger in a one-woman chamber music play, Nadia, by Mina Fisher, which saw its French premiere at The American Church in Paris. Zabala was recently named a Distinguished Vocal Artist of the American Prize; she is an alumna of Louisiana State University, the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, and young artist programs at the Santa Fe, Seattle, and Wolf Trap Operas. She was Fulbright Scholar at the Mozarteum, taught on the voice faculty at the University of Minnesota. A passionate educator and mentor, Zabala is an associate professor of voice at Yale University and the incoming Assistant Dean of Collaborative Arts and Belonging for the Yale School of Music.