For the last concert of the season, WVS welcomes soprano, Amy Hansen, who will take center stage, bringing to life the timeless classics of opera. With her captivating voice, Amy will transport you to the passionate realms of Puccini, Verdi, and Rossini. Her featured performance will include "Signore Ascolta” from Turandot, “Quando m’en vo" from La bohème, "E strano…..ah fors’e lui….sempre libera" from La traviata, and "Una Voce Poco Fa" from Il barbiere di Siviglia.
The orchestra will also play Rossini’s Overture to Semiramide, Puccini’s Intermezzo from Manon Lescaut, Mascagni’s Intermezzo from Calalleria rusticana, and Tchaikovsky’s Capriccio Italien. Come 45 minutes early to listen to a pre-concert talk with Artistic Director, Lance Inouye.
Amy Hansen’s lithe, exquisite voice and breath-taking acting have won her acclaim on operatic and symphonic stages alike. Opera Canada wrote of her title role performance with Calgary Opera, “Hansen was the complete Lakmé…she encompassed the virtuoso writing with ease, the top of her voice radiant, her lyrical singing meltingly beautiful…her acting pointed and convincing at every turn.”
Singing across the United States, Europe and Asia, she has graced the stages of the National Philharmonic and the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington D.C., North Carolina Symphony, Vermont Symphony, Brooklyn Philharmonic, Opera Orchestra of New York, Taiwan National Theater, Tel Aviv Theater, Teatro di Urbania, Calgary Opera, Edmonton Opera, Michigan Opera and Sacramento Opera among others.
Here in Oregon, you may have heard Ms. Hansen singing soprano solos for Mozart’s Requiem, Dvorak’s Stabat Mater, Verdi’s Requiem, Brahms’ Ein Deutsches Requiem, Haydn’s Creation, and Orff’s Carmina Burana. She is regularly featured at the Astoria Music Festival, with Salem’s Masterworks Chorale and Festival Chorale. Perhaps you saw Ms. Hansen performing with the Oregon Symphony, the Eugene Symphony, Portland Opera, Third Angle, the Portland Symphonic Choir, at the Cascade Festival of Music, or Portland's Festa Italiana. For Portland Summerfest’s Opera in the Park, in the Washington Park Rose Garden, her roles include Gilda in Rigoletto, Violetta in La Traviata, Micaela in Carmen, and Adele in Die Fledermaus. She has enjoyed singing with Opera Theater Corvallis, Rogue Valley Opera, at Mt. Angel Abbey and River Rythms at Monteith Park.