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Soprano Lucy Thrasher has performed
throughout the Upper Midwest as soloist in opera, oratorio, recital
and symphonic works. Favorite opera roles include Susanna (Mozart's
Le Nozze di Figaro), Musetta (Puccini's La Boheme),
Gretel (Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel) and the title
role in Lehar's The Merry Widow. To this point
strictly a live performance artist, Lucy has been musically "crossing
over" since the age of five. Her early performances in school
and church led to gigs in country and western and folk music
in her teenage years, then musicals, and most recently, cabaret.
She is Assistant Professor of Voice and Opera Workshop at Concordia College in
Moorhead, Minnesota, and since 1998 has also been the Director
of the Resident Opera Artist Program at the Pine
Mountain Music Festival in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan,
a summer festival of opera, chamber music, cabaret, and symphony,
where she recently performed with the PMMF Symphony as soloist
for Sibelius' Luonnotar.
Lucy has sung leading roles with
opera companies throughout the Midwest, has won District and
Regional Metropolitan Opera auditions awards and was the Young
Artist of 1983, North Dakota, for the National Federation of
Music Clubs. She is an active recitalist and symphonic soloist,
and her performances of opera excerpts for children have been
seen by over 60,000 children in Colorado, Minnesota, North Dakota,
and South Dakota.
In 2007, Lucy released her debut
CD titled CABARET: Songs from Schoenberg
to Sondheim, which is available online at Concordia
Recordings, Fargostuff.com,
and Amazon.
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