Dana Campbell, Soprano
Soprano Dana Campbell is pleased to be making her Southwest Symphony Orchestra debut with An Afternoon of Lerner and Loewe. Having made her professional debut with the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony Orchestra, she has since been a guest artist with Virtuosi di Toronto in performances of Vivaldi’s Gloria, soprano soloist in Handel’s Messiah with Toronto Classical Singers and Talisker Players, and a featured artist with the Kenosha Symphony Orchestra.
With Toronto Operetta Theatre, she sang the title role in the Canadian première of Gonzalo Roig’s zarzuela Cecilia Valdes. For the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Ms. Campbell appeared in their celebrated productions of Porgy and Bess, and understudied the role of Addie Parker in their production of Charlie Parker’s Yardbird. With Maestro Robert Trevino and his Millennium Chamber Players, she undertook, among others, the roles of Female Chorus in Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia, and Mimì in Puccini’s La Bohème.
Other operatic roles include Donna Elvira, Countess Almaviva, Micaëla, and Violetta. Ms. Campbell appeared in concert with the AIMS Festival Orchestra in Graz, Austria, under the baton of Edoardo Müller, and has sung Mimì for Maestro Joseph Rescigno and La Musica Lirica in Novafeltria, Italy. Ms. Campbell performs frequently with the South Shore Opera Company of Chicago, most recently as Rachel Ross in the opera Harriet Tubman: When I Crossed That Line to Freedom, and as Claire in the company’s critically-acclaimed production of Troubled Island.