RESUME
opera & theater
roles
Alice Ford / Falstaff [G. Verdi]
Beauty / Beauty, Here, Now [I. Cortes]
Blanche / Dialogues des Carmélites [F. Poulenc]
Colombina / Le Magicien [J. Vallerand]
Countess / Le nozze di Figaro [ W.A. Mozart]
Dew Fairy / Hansel and Gretel [E. Humperdinck]
Despina / Cosi fan tutte [ W.A. Mozart]
Donna Anna / Don Giovanni [W.A. Mozart]
Donna Elvira / Don Giovanni [W.A. Mozart]
First Lady / Die Zauberflöte [W.A. Mozart]
Nella / Gianni Schicchi [G. Puccini]
Ruth / Ruth [P. Hagemann]
Semiramide / Semiramide [G. Rossini]
Signora Naccarelli / The Light in the Piazza [A. Guettel]
Street Ensemble / Mass [L. Bernstein]
Thérèse / Les Mamelles de Tirésias [F. Poulenc]
Queen Gioella / Fiora [B. Losee]
Concert soloist
Repertoire
Bach / Magnificat
Beethoven / Symphony No. 9
Bernstein / Songfest
Britten / Ceremony of Carols
Bruckner / Te Deum
Fauré / Requiem
Handel / Messiah
Mendelssohn / Elijah
Mozart / Requiem
Respighi / Laud to the Nativity
Saint-Saëns / Requiem
Vivaldi / Gloria
Education
Ms. Spina has Master of Music Degree from the University of Toronto, a Bachelor of Music Degree from Western University, and an Artist Certificate from CUNY Queens College.
additional
Ms. Spina has also performed at Theater Rudolstadt (Germany), with the Lyric Opera Studio Weimar, the Schiller Institute of NYC Chorus, the Newfoundland Symphony Orchestra, the Brown Paper Orchestra, The Astoria Choir, the Rockland Choral Society, Ars Totus, the Sudbury Symphony Orchestra, the Independent Symphony Orchestra of Baja California Sur, the Queens Symphony Orchestra, Ars Totus, the Metro Chamber Orchestra of Brooklyn, with the Verbier Festival (Switzerland), Metro Youth Opera, Utopia Opera, Opera on the Avalon, Opera NUOVA, St. Andrews-by-the-Sea, COSI, the New Jersey Metropolis Chamber Orchestra, at Montreal Fashion Week, and at St. Patrick's Cathedral and the Archdiocesan Cathedral of the Holy Trinity where she holds a resident soprano position, both in New York City.
Training & Workshops
CoOPERAtive Program at Westminster | Laura Brooks Rice
Westchester Summer Vocal Institute | Sherry Overholt
Lyric Opera Studio Weimar | Damon Nestor Ploumis
Opera NUOVA | Kim Mattice Wanat
Center for Opera Studies in Italy | Darryl Edwards
St. Andrews-by-the-Sea | Wendy Nielsen
Opera on the Avalon | Cheryl Hickman
University of Toronto | Opera Division | Sandra Horst
Western University (formerly University of Western Ontario)
Cambrian College
CUNY Queens College