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Sunday 29 March 2020 @ 16h

Charity Concert - for Les Amis de Lascassagne - Choralines, direction Isabella Baicchi, Nelly Fourcade, piano

Eglise Anglicane, rue de la Buffa, Nice, France

Saturday 30 May 2020 @ 20h30

"Amado mio - Hommage à Rita Hayworth" with Michel Bejar, choregrapher/danseur, Stéphane Eliot, orgue symphonique

Works from Gilda, You were never lovelier, The Loves of Carmen, Down to Earth, and classical pieces by Liszt, Berlioz...

Céline Barcaroli, stage direction Salle communale 'St Jean Baptiste', Saint Jeannet, France

Tuesday 16 June 2020 @ 18h00

Concert - Circle Wagner with Pauline Descamps, mezzo-soprano, Pauls Putins, bass-baritone, Patrick Nebbula, pianist

Works by Liszt, Wagner and Richard Strauss Foyer 'Monsarrat Caballe' Opéra de Nice, France

Entrée gratuite members of the Circle Wagner Information: 04 93 97 62 82/06 62 80 40 55

Friday 19 June 2020 @ 19h30

Concert - French and Italian operas - "Nuit Magique" with Pauls Putins, bass-baritone and Stéphane Eliot, orgue symphonique

Château Nestuby, Cotignac, Frace - arias and duets from the greatest operas by Bizet, Massenet, Verdi, Puccini...

Réservations: 04 94 04 61 87 /06 60 71 45 64 Office de Tourisme Cotignac Entrée 19€
Planche terroir 8€ uniquement sur réservation 04 94 04 60 02

Thursday 25 June 2020 @ 21h

Concert - French and Italian operas - with Franck Asparte, tenor, Emmanuel Vasche, bass-baritone, Stephane Eliot, orgue symphonique

Eglise, Aups, France Réservations: Una Voce 06 65 11 67 09 Entrée: 10€

Thursday 2 July 2020 @ 20h30

Concert - French and Italian operas - with Georges-Henri Ducreux, pianist

Château de Suze-la-Rousse, France Réservations: Resonances 06 62 33 03 04

Tuesday 7 July 2020 @ 21h

Concert - French and Italian operas - with Franck Asparte, tenor, Emmanuel Vasche, bass-baritone, Stephane Eliot, orgue symphonique

Eglise, Flayosc, France Réservations: Una Voce 06 65 11 67 09 Entrée: 10€

Friday 10 July 2020 @ 21h

Spectacle "Clair de lune" - danse verticale, music, poetry with la Compagnie Révèrie, Isabelle Pencreach, Isabelle Servol, Stephane Eliot

Théâtre des Carrières, rue des Carrières, 84300 Taillades, France Les Estivales des Taillades https://www.estivalesdestaillades.fr/

Friday 17 July 2020 @ 21h

Concert - French and Italian operas - with Franck Asparte, tenor, Emmanuel Vasche, bass-baritone, Stephane Eliot, orgue symphonique

Eglise, Régusse, France Réservations: Una Voce 06 65 11 67 09 Entrée: 10€

Tuesday 28 July 2020 @ 21h

Concert - French and Italian operas - with Franck Asparte, tenor, Emmanuel Vasche, bass-baritone, Stephane Eliot, orgue symphonique

Eglise, Barjols, France Réservations: Una Voce 06 65 11 67 09 Entrée: 10€

Saturday 3 October 2020 @ 20h30

Concert - Requiem and Gallia by Charles Gounod with the Ensemble Simple Accord, directed by Sarmad Khoury, Marika Hofmeyr, pianist

Eglise Sainte Marie Madelaine, Biot Festival "Et si le Choeur vous en dit"

Date to be announced: "Romantiques en Italie" Concert with Cristina Greco and Olivier Augé-Laribé,

Eglise Saint Antonin, Levens, France Fesival Franz Liszt Levens Côte d'Azur - Reservations: Office of Tourisme 09 62 66 85 84

AGENDA

La Provence - 20 août 2018 Concert magique au château

Dernièrement, le trio Syrinx composé d’Amy Blake (soprano), Paula Thomas (flûte traversière), Georges-Henri Ducreux (piano) a donné un concert au château. Un concert original qui sortait des sentiers battus avec un répertoire composé en majorité de mélodies françaises. La diction impeccable du texte de Gabriel Mourey sur le dieu Pan lu par Amy Blake, tandis que résonnait l’air de flûte de Syrinx fut un des moments forts de cette soirée.

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Amy Christianna Blake

soprano

Hailed for her “beautiful singing” and “tremendous power and stage presence” by The New York Times, Amy Christianna Blake combines a rich expressive soprano voice with dynamic interpretation. Her exciting and moving performances of a diverse operatic and concert repertoire have firmly established her as one of today's most promising artists. For her artistry as a recitalist, she has received high acclaim. “Ms. Blake sang with such inner conviction, eloquence, passion and elegance that she brought the house down.” (New Music Connoisseur).

ABOUT

Amy will return to Festival Celebrate Voice in Salibury, England to sing la Countess in Le Nozze di Figaro next October. Recently, she sang Donna Anna in Don Giovanni for Celebrate Voice under the musical direction of Phillip Thomas, Violetta in La Traviata at the National Opera of Varna, Bulgaria (conductor Stefano Seghadoni). She was La Contessa in Le Nozze di Figaro for Opus Opéra (conductor Nicolas Krüger), Musetta in La Bohème and the First Lady in Die Zauberflőte for Opera Panamà. She sang Elena in Paride ed Elena by Gluck for the Caramoor Opera Festival, (conductor Will Crutchfield), Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni and Pamina in Die Zauberflöte for Natchez Opera Festival. She was chosen to create Juana la Loca III for the the world premiere of Rage d'Amour for Tanglewood Music Center (conductor Stefan Asbury). She sang Octavian in Der Rosenkavalier in Graz, Austria for AIMS (conductor Cornelius Eberhardt).

Amy has sung numerous soprano solos in oratorios, including Handel Messiah, Mozart Requiem, Vesperae solennes de confessore and C minor Mass, Saint Saëns L'Oratorio de Noël (conductor Michel Piquemal), Dvořak Stabat Mater and Te Deum (conductor Alain Joutard), Mendelssohn's Hör mein Bitten (conductor Wolfgang Doerner), Strauss Vier Letzte Lieder, Brahms Requiem and Liebeslieder Waltzer, Berlioz Les Nuits d'été and excerpts from West Side Story.

Equally at home on the concert stage, Amy has given recitals for Festivals Ninon Vallin and Liszt Côte d'Azur, the concert series Monaco Musique de Chambre, in New York City at Merkin Hall and Symphony Space and the Kunstmuseum, Stavanger, Norway.

A passionate contemporary music lover, she has created numerous works, many of which were written for her, by composers including Paul Brantley, Hampson Sisler, David Eddelman, Jean-Pierre Nouvel, Yuka Takechi and Robert Zuidam. Amy had the great honor to be Resident Artist at the renowned Fondation Royaumont. She was selected for Les Saisons de la Voix by pianist, Jeff Cohen.

Holder of Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Vocal Performance from Texas Tech University, she also studied at the Bel Canto Institute with Jane Klaviter at the Metropolitan Opera, Tanglewood Music Center, Des Moines Metro Opera and the Centre d'Art Lyrique de la Méditerranée. She has participated in masterclasses with Renata Scotto, Licia Albanese, Lucy Shelton, Phyllis Curtin, Cheryl Studer and Elly Ameling. She was awarded a study grant for the Licia Albanese-Puccini Foundation and was finalist for the American Artists Center at the Lyric Opera Center of Chicago.

Having grown up in West Texas, Amy now resides on the Côte d'Azur and continues to study with Jane Highfield, Phillip Thomas, Françoise Ogéas and Dalton Baldwin.

CONTACT

info(at)amyblakesoprano.com

VIDEOS

Clifton Record review - March 2, 2015

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Var Matin - 22 mai 2019 - Concert Festival Poulenc - St Paul en Forêt

"la ravissante soprano Amy Blake, à la voix chaude et envelloppante..."

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