Theresa Cardinale
300 Gold Mine Drive
San Francisco, CA 94131
(415)-648-149
Theresa Cardinale has performed for 14 years before opera and concert audiences throughout Northern California. Praised by the San Francisco Chronicle for her "strong mezzo-soprano voice" and "focused clarity," her career runs a broad gamut between the opera and concert stage. In Vienna in 1998, she premiered a new leider cycle by composer-conductor Kurt Rapf.
Miss Cardinale has been featured with Northern California opera companies such as Oakland, Sacramento, Cinnabar Opera Theatre and West Bay Opera, and has sung with the San Francisco Opera Chorus. Last summer, she performed the role of Alisa with the highly acclaimed production of Festival Opera's "Lucia di Lammermoor". As a concert soloist, Miss Cardinale performs with many choral organizations and orchestras. Highligts include performances of the Brahms "Alto Rhapsody" with the San Francisco Chamber Orchestra, the Rossini "Stabat Mater" with the San Francisco City Chorus and the Verdi "Requiem" with the Santa Cruz County Symphony. Other oratorio credits include "Requiem" (Mozart),"Israel in Egypt", "Judas Maccabeus", Petite Messe Solennelle", "B Minor Mass", "St. John Passion", "Magnificat"(JS and CPE Bach, Schubert), "9th Symphony" (Beethoven) and Mendelsohn's "Elijah". Performances of Handel's "Messiah" include productions with the San Francisco Choral Society, Monterey County Symphony and Cantare con Vivo. In the contemporary vein, she performed "20/20Blake" with the George Coates Performance Works, Copland's "In the Beginning" and John Corigliano's, "Fern Hill". Miss Cardinale performed the "Dream of Gerontious" (Elgar) at a San Francisco premier with the San Francisco Choral Society.
Awards include winner of the Western Regional Award of the National Association of Teachers of Singing and in 1994 a Fulbright finalist. She maintains a voice studio in San Francisco and Berkeley.
