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Soprano Lynn Norris, acclaimed for a voice “as resonant as a church bell and as crisp as a fresh Macintosh apple,” is at home on both the opera and concert stage. Her appearances in New York and at regional houses have encompassed roles as diverse as Lady with a Hand Mirror in Postcards from Morocco, Blonde in Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Nanetta in Falstaff, Adele in Die Fledermaus, Miss Silverpeal in The Impressario, and The Forest Bird in Siegfried. Her performances in the world premieres of Marjorie Maxine Rusche’s She Stoops to Conquer (Kate Hardcastle) and Jorge Martín’s The Mappined Life (The Niece) received critical acclaim in The New York Times and American Record Guide.
Equally comfortable with the standard concert repertory, the Arizona native has been a guest artist with New York ensembles, regional orchestras and at Princeton University in such works as the Poulenc Gloria, Orff’s Carmina Burana, Duke Ellington's Sacred Concerts, Mozart’s C minor Mass and “Exsultate, jubilate” motet, the Bach B minor Mass, the Vaughan Williams cantata Dona nobis pacem, the Fauré Requiem, Schubert’s Shepherd on the Rock, and Mahler’s Fourth Symphony.
Ms. Norris is prized by contemporary composers for her versatility, range, vocal freshness and impeccable musicianship. She has regularly collaborated with composers Gerald Ginsburg, Gene Pritsker and Luis Andrei Cobo; sung new music by Jorge Martin, Beatriz de Mello, Bruce Saylor, Thomas Pasatieri, and Tom Cipullo among others; performed in recital at Harvard University with Harry Huff and Kent French and in cabaret at Don't Tell Mama in NYC with Nancy Loesch and Mory Ortman. Her cd of songs and arias with Harry Huff is entitled "si j'étais roi," and she is featured on three albums of new music on the Composers Concordance label (distributed by Naxos) in 3 songs by Luis Andrei Cobo on the CD Song Cycles and Gene Pritsker's operas William James's Varieties of Religious Experience and Manhattan in Charcoal.
Searching for an outlet for performing the pop styles she grew up with, Ms. Norris also co-founded the cabaret trio Dish. The group has sung in several New York venues in a diverse range of idioms including jazz, country and R&B.
Equally comfortable with the standard concert repertory, the Arizona native has been a guest artist with New York ensembles, regional orchestras and at Princeton University in such works as the Poulenc Gloria, Orff’s Carmina Burana, Duke Ellington's Sacred Concerts, Mozart’s C minor Mass and “Exsultate, jubilate” motet, the Bach B minor Mass, the Vaughan Williams cantata Dona nobis pacem, the Fauré Requiem, Schubert’s Shepherd on the Rock, and Mahler’s Fourth Symphony.
Ms. Norris is prized by contemporary composers for her versatility, range, vocal freshness and impeccable musicianship. She has regularly collaborated with composers Gerald Ginsburg, Gene Pritsker and Luis Andrei Cobo; sung new music by Jorge Martin, Beatriz de Mello, Bruce Saylor, Thomas Pasatieri, and Tom Cipullo among others; performed in recital at Harvard University with Harry Huff and Kent French and in cabaret at Don't Tell Mama in NYC with Nancy Loesch and Mory Ortman. Her cd of songs and arias with Harry Huff is entitled "si j'étais roi," and she is featured on three albums of new music on the Composers Concordance label (distributed by Naxos) in 3 songs by Luis Andrei Cobo on the CD Song Cycles and Gene Pritsker's operas William James's Varieties of Religious Experience and Manhattan in Charcoal.
Searching for an outlet for performing the pop styles she grew up with, Ms. Norris also co-founded the cabaret trio Dish. The group has sung in several New York venues in a diverse range of idioms including jazz, country and R&B.