Alison Bolshoi fulfills the Wagner and Verdi repertoire with a vocal radiance and lyricism seldom heard in dramatic voices. Her insightful interpretation and consequent communication of each character make her presence onstage a mesmerizing experience.
Ms. Bolshoi joined the roster of San Francisco Opera covering Senta in Der Fliegende Holländer. She made her debut at La Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona in a concert featuring excerpts from Strauss’ Guntram, Reyer’s Sigurd, and Schillings’ Mona Lisa. In addition, she has sung the role of the Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier with the Huntsville Symphony (AL) and concerts with the Bach to Bartok Festival with the Accademia Pianistica, Imola (Italy), Leonore in Fidelio with One World Symphony in NY and was the soprano soloist for the Alfredo Silipigni Memorial Concert with the New Jersey State Opera at NJPAC.
Soprano Bolshoi has performed multiple stagings of Sieglinde in Die Walküre and Brünnhilde in Siegfried with the Wagner Festival Orchestra of NY. Additional concerts with the company have included the Senta/Holländer duet from Der Fliegende Holländer and Brünnhilde (Acts I and III) from Götterdämmerung.
Her recent concert activities include The Immolation Scene from Götterdämmerung and other dramatic soprano selections for the New Jersey State Opera Guild; The Immolation Scene and Wagner selections with the Hawthorne Symphony of New Jersey for the past two seasons and featured soloist for the opening gala concert at Ceský Krumlov with the Prague Symphony.
Upcoming
Ms. Bolshoi returns to the Czech Republic in 2014 to sing the title role of Dvorák’s Rusalka at the Ceský Krumlov Festival under the baton of Mº John Keenan of the Metropolitan Opera. In the same season she performs the role of Leonore in Fidelio in concert with the Hawthorne Symphony. She sings selections of Brünnhilde from Siegfried in the fall with the Wagner Festival Orchestra of NY in 2015.
Conductors/Directors
Ms. Bolshoi has sung under the baton of Donald Runnicles, John Keenan, Joseph Colaneri, Daniel Raiskin, Carlos Miguel Prieto, David Gilbert, John Minkhoff, Sung Jin Hong, Roger Malouf and Giovanni Reggioli. She has worked under the direction of Nikolaus Lehnhoff, Josef Prudek, Gary Race, Deborah Karner, Will Bryan, and Carol Kafka.
Honors and Awards
Ms. Bolshoi is an award recipient from the Liederkranz Foundation, the Gerda Lissner Foundation Award and the Altamura-Caruso Foundation Award. She is also a recipient of continued awards and sponsorship from the American Wagner Association (NY), the Wagner Society of New York, the Evelyn Lear & Thomas Stewart Emerging Singers Program of Washington, D.C. and the Wagner Association of America.
Reviews
“Alison Bolshoi, as Leonora from Act I of the opera Fidelio by Ludwig van Beethoven, confirmed all our expectations of a professional and experienced performer. Her self-confident entry …reverberated in forté, in a beautiful natural color of voice, which softened in lower notes to a velveteen shade. [She] also pleased the audience by her dramatization and convincing expression in the difficult passage, and was amazingly impressive…in the beautiful Miserere. In the third act aria…she enthralled us by her heartfelt pianissimo solo, accompanied by the cello, adding even more to her wide dynamic range, and her concept of the acting was excellent.
- Rafael Brom, Hubední Rozledy, Musical Views Magazine (Prague)
September 2013, (Opening Gala Concert, Ceský Krumlov Festival)