In demand for contemporary repertoire, Ms. Other orchestral highlights include Berlioz’s Benvenuto Cellini with Colin Davis and the London Symphony, To Be Certain of the Dawn with Osmo Vänskä and the Minnesota Orchestra, the Brahms Requiem with Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony, arias and duets with Plácido Domingo and the Chicago Symphony led by Daniel Barenboim, and a New Year’s Eve gala with Claudio Abbado and the Berlin Philharmonic. 2 under Zubin Mehta and has returned there for Handel’s Messiah with Neville Marriner and Mozart’s Abduction from the Seraglio with Colin Davis. Futral debuted with the New York Philharmonic in Mahler’s Symphony No. Futral appeared as the Beggar Woman in a new production of Sweeney Todd at the San Francisco Opera, the title role in the Merry Widow for the Lyric Opera of Chicago and Lori Laitman’s The Scarlett Letter for Opera Colorado. Internationally, she has been heard at the Royal Opera Covent Garden, the Bayerische Staatsoper, the Staatsoper and Deutsche Oper Berlin and the Theater an der Wien, among other houses.ĭuring the 2015–16 season Ms.
She has notable relationships with the Washington, Houston, Santa Fe, Los Angeles, New York City, Vancouver and Minnesota opera companies. With the Lyric Opera of Chicago she has sung a vast range of roles including Cunegonde in Candide, Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro, Handel’s Partenope, La Traviata, and The Merry Widow.
Since that time she has returned to the Metropolitan Opera as Princess Eudoxie in a new production of La Juive, Princess Yeuyang in the world premiere of Tan Dun’s The First Emperor, Elvira in I Puritani, and additional performances of Lucia. Career milestones soon followed, cementing her star status: a win in Plácido Domingo’s Operalia Competition, the title role in Rossini’s Matilde di Shabran in Pesaro, her debut at the San Francisco Opera as Stella in the world premiere of André Previn’s A Streetcar Named Desire, and her Metropolitan Opera debut in a new production of Lucia di Lammermoor. She joined the Lyric Opera Center for American Artists at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, won the Metropolitan Opera National Council auditions in 1991 and was catapulted to stardom with critically acclaimed performances of Delibes’ Lakmé at New York City Opera in 1994. With her stunning vocalism and vast dramatic range, American soprano Elizabeth Futral has embraced a repertoire that ranges from the Baroque to world premieres.Ī native of Louisiana, she studied at Indiana University.
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