Vanessa Cariddi

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Composer	Opera	Role
Barber	Vanessa	Erika
Bellini	Norma	Adalgisa
Bizet	Carmen	Carmen
Donizetti	Maria di Rohan	Gondi
	Roberto Devereux	Sara
Gilbert & Sullivan	HMS Pinafore	Little Buttercup
Gounod	Romeo et Juliette	Stephano
Massenet	Werther	Charlotte
Mozart	Cosi fan tutte	Dorabella
	La Clemenza di Tito	Sesto
Nico Muhly	Dark Sisters
Offenbach	Les Contes d’Hoffman	Muse/Nicklausse
Rossini	Cenerentola	Cenerentola
	Il Barbiere di Siviglia	Rosina
	Guillaume Tell	Hedwige
	L’Italiana in Algeri	Isabella
Strauss	Der Rosenkavalier	Octavian
Tchaikovsky	Queen of Spades	Polina
Verdi	Rigoletto	Maddalena
Wagner	Gotterdammerung	Waltraute
	Die Walkure	Waltraute

Composer	Work
Bach	St. Matthew Passion
	B Minor Mass
Beethoven	Symphony No. 9
	Missa Solemnis
Handel	Messiah
Mahler	Symphony No. 2
	Des Knaben Wunderhorn
Mendelssohn	Elijah
Mozart	Requiem
	Mass in C minor
Rossini	Stabat Mater
Verdi	Requiem
Vivaldi	Gloria

Mezzo-Soprano Vanessa Cariddi made her professional operatic main stage debut at the Metropolitan Opera and subsequently performed Waltraute in Die Walküre on their tour to Japan.  She made her role debut as the title role in Carmen and New York City Opera and her debut with the Caramoor Festival singing the role of Gondì in Donizetti’s Maria di Rohan under the direction of Will Crutchfield.

In addition, she has graced the stages of Pittsburgh Opera as Maddalena in Rigoletto and returned to the Caramoor Festival this past summer as Little Buttercup in HMS Pinafore and as Hedwige in Guillaume Tell. In the current season and beyond, Vanessa performs Rosina in Il Barbiere di Siviglia with El Paso Opera, and will cover the mezzo Valkyries in Seattle Opera’s summer 2013 production of the Ring Cycle.

Other roles in Vanessa’s current repertoire include Charlotte in Werther, Adalgisa in Norma, Cornelia in Giulio Cesare, Santuzza in Cavalleria Rusticana, and the title role in Samson et Dalila.

Other recent appearances have included Nico Muhly’s new opera, Dark Sisters with Gotham Chamber Opera and the Opera Company of Philadelphia, the mezzo soloist in the Verdi Requiem with the Choral Society of New York, the Brahms Liebeslieder Waltzes, and several performances as a soloist with the Orquesta de la Ciudad de los Reyes, in Lima, Peru, and appearances at the Tanglewood Festival, including Mahler’s Des Knaben Wunderhorn in recital with Ben Binder, and works by Granados, Debussy, Berlioz, Shostakovich, Bernstein, Sibelius, Rossini, Barber, Golijov, Mahler, and John Williams.

Vanessa is a Gerda Lissner Foundation award winner, as well as a 2007 Kern Award winner for new artist of the year at Sarasota Opera. She also maintains an important relationship with Sing For Hope, which provides talent for fund-raising concerts with world-class artists for organizations as varied as homeless shelters, hospitals, schools, and other worthy local and international causes. A native of Maine, she is a graduate of the Manhattan School of Music, and New York University. She lives in New York City.