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Role of Disinganno, Act II
Oratorio "Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno" by Georg Friedrich Händel
Scenic realisation with the UNI-Baroque Orchestra, Musical Direction Matthias Erben
Preview 21.05.10 in the Foyer of the Music Institute of the Martin-Luther-Universität
Premiere on 24.05.10 in Pollditz

6.05.10. at 3 pm in the Georg-Friedrich-Händel-Halle, Halle (Saale)
Celebration of 125 years Deutsche Braunkohlen-Industrie-Verein e.V.
with the Jugensinfonieorchester Sachsen-Anhalt, Musical Direction Prof. Heribert Beissel
Isabella Aria "Cruda sorte" from "L'Italiana in Algeri"

23.04.10 at 6 pm in the Aula of Martin-Luther-Universität
For the Opening of the Special Exhibition
"Goethe and the University of Halle"
Musical Introduction and Closing
Four Songs by Johann Friedrich Reichardt, Texts by Goethe
with Maria Leontjewa on piano

Alto Solo in Christmas Oratorio I-III by Johann Sebastian Bach
with the Academic Orchestra of the Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg
and the Hallesche Kantorei Chorus
Conductor: Church Music Director Prof. Helmut Gleim
on December13th, 2009 at 6 pm in the Marktkirche Halle (Saale)

Alto Solo in Requiem by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
with the Mecklenburgische Staatskapelle Schwerin
and the Schweriner Singakademie e.V.
Conductor: Ulrich Barthel
on November 20th, 2009 at 7:30 pm in the Evangelische Stadtkirche Hagenow

Alto Solo in Elijah Op. 70 by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
with Collegium Musicum University Choir "Johann Friedrich Reichardt"
of the Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg
Conductor: University Music Director Jens Lorenz & Golo Berg
on June 7th, 2009 at 7:30 pm in the Anhaltisches Theater Dessau
on June 21st, 2009 at 7:30 pm in the Marktkirche, Halle (Saale)

Press about Bluebeard:

"Hilchenbach directs his characters with a light hand, the acting hardly ever drags. Olivia Saragosa is vocally secure and sensual as the Carmen of the suburbs, in the role of Bluebeard's last wife, Boulotte. She has some of the best scenes with Dominik Wortig in the leading role." Westfälischer Anzeiger Hamm, 10.06.08.

"The Hagener Bluebeard is a consequent and funny farce with a good cast...Olivia Saragosa shines as the uncouth, determined farmer Boulotte..."
Ruhr Nachrichten Dortmund, 10.06.08.

"Olivia Saragosa in red overalls performs the wonderful over-the-top, and yet simple farmer Boulotte." Westfälische Rundschau, 09.06.08.

"Brilliant also the singing Ensemble:...Olivia Saragosa as the tomboyish farmer Boulotte, who in the end tames the gruff Bluebeard..." Opernnetz, 11.06.08

Boulotte Photos!

Recent Performances:

Boulotte in Bluebeard by Jacques Offenbach in Theater Hagen
Premiere June 7, 2008 7:30 pm
Following performances on June 11, 14, 17, 20, 25 and 27 2008 at 7:30 pm

Season Premiere September 14, 2008 at 6 pm
Following performances in 2008:
September 19 at 7:30 pm and 28 at 6 pm
October 9 at 7:30 pm and 12 and 26 at 3 pm
November 8 at 7:30 pm

Venus in Orpheus in der Unterwelt in Theater Lübeck on February 14, 2008

Opera Gala with the Jugendsinfonieorchester Sachsen-Anhalt
with conductor Heribert Beissel
Neues Theater Halle on February 10, 2008
Theater Wittenberg on February 11, 2008

Angelina in Cenerentola with the Mitteldeutsche Kammeroper, Germany
Theater Wittenberg on Nov. 23rd at 7:30 pm (Premiere) & Dec. 5th at 10 am
Theater Bernburg on December 18th at 10 am

Laura in Die drei Pintos by C. M. von Weber and Gustav Mahler
Opera in Concert in Toronto, Canada on December 2nd at 2:30 pm

Armelinde in Cendrillon by Pauline Viardot
Konzerthaus Berlin on December 15th at 3 pm (Premiere), December 16th at 11 am & 4 pm & December 19th at 11 am and 4 pm

Alto Soloist in Bach's Christmas Oratorio I-III
Christuskirche Bremerhaven on December 23rd at 5 pm


Recent Press:

Jugendsinfonieorchester Sachsen-Anhalt Opera Gala with Heribert Beissel:
"The soprano Cordula Berner from Düsseldorf and the mezzo-soprano Olivia Saragosa from Halle impressed with charm and musicality - the audience was charmed by brilliance in the voice and variable timbre." Mitteldeutsche Zeitung Wittenberg, 14.2.2008.

Bach's Christmas Oratorio:
"Olivia Saragosa, a powerful, yet well focussed voice, floating and elegant in tone and with delicately accentuated ornaments. A special highlight of the evening: the deeply illuminated final aria "Schließe mein Herze, dies selige Wunder"."
Dieter Strohmeyer, Nordsee-Zeitung, 27.12.2007.

Cenerentola:
"Above all, it is the magic of the music that motorises the transformations: and most obviously by Cinderella herself. Out of a shy girl becomes a grown woman and a regal princess. The transformation can be heard in the changes of her vocal style: from a simple song-like style at the beginning, to the richly ornamented, vocal high flights of her first appearance at the ball or by her Rondo finale "Nacqui all'affanno". Olivia Saragosa succeeded in performing these transformations both vocally and dramatically with bravura."
Wochenspiegel Wittenberg, 12.2007

Giulio Cesare:
"The stage director obviously has a special love for the two women Cleopatra (Eun-Joo Park) and Cornelia (Olivia Saragosa), whom he not only fitted with especially attractive costumes, but also allowed them to perform with cunning, intelligence and emotion...Olivia Saragosa took Cornelia as her own with her well focussed mezzo; right from the start, her lament 'Priva son d'ogni' attested to high vocal culture." Wolfgang Denker, Orpheus, May/June 2007.

"Olivia Saragosa sings with a clearly focussed, sonorous mezzo, a Cornelia who laments and develops through the scenes and who later wins dramatic impetus with resistance against the men who oppressed her." Gerhart Asche, Weser Kurier, 29.01.07.

Chamber music concert on the 19th of November, 2006:
"Olivia Saragosa (Mezzo-soprano), Diana Veiser-Müller (Viola) and Yumiko Suemasa (Piano) risked themselves with this difficult, atonal expressive art, in which almost only viola and piano set dynamic - rarely dramatic - accents of expression, while the vocal line remains tied in an almost monotone, bound expressive Melos and its colour only changes in the word field "Love". An impressive musical achievement of the singer, who also sovereignly mastered the difficult intervals." Dieter Strohmeyer, Nordsee Zeitung, 20th of November, 2006.

Barber of Seville: "Olivia Saragosa gave the best vocal performance, playing coquette as Rosina. She let her beautiful mezzo-soprano whir away like an express train." Wolfgang Denker, Orpheus, May/June 2006.

"Rosina ideally cast: ...Especially Olivia Saragosa distinguished herself: an ideal Rosina, no little soubrette, but rather a real mezzo with warmth, powerful expression and a well lead voice which was nimble through the runs." Dieter Strohmeyer, Nordsee Zeitung, 06.03.06.

Idomeneo: "With her slender mezzo and moving portrayal, Olivia Saragosa was a very suitable Idamante, the duet with Franka Kraneis presented a most beautiful Mozart well-being sound." Wolfgang Denker, Nordsee Zeitung, 18.04.06.