Tara Venditti's "rich, vibrant instrument" is only part of the reason critics and audiences alike are so attracted to her. Acclaimed not only for the beauty and richness of her voice but also for her impressive stage abilities, Tara Venditti is known to audiences on three continents as a consummate singing actor. Her unique interpretations of numerous new and traditional works within Opera, Concert, Musical Theater and Jazz venues leads her to stages from Brussels to Beijing.
Acclaimed as one of the most outstanding young singers of her generation, she recently made her debut at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, singing the title-role in TAMERLANO at twenty-four hours notice, her debut as CARMEN with Staatstheater Mainz, garnering rave reviews for her searing performance. In America, Ms Venditti made her New York City Opera debut as the Nurse STRAWBERRY FIELDS and the Au Pair THE FOOD OF LOVE, participated in the NYC premiere of the Central Park trilogy and "excelled" wrote Opera News, as a "delightful" Indiana Elliot THE MOTHER OF US ALL.
Ms. Venditti is a "first choice" among composers and new music organizations for Premier events and has participated in major world premieres of new operas in NYC, Philladelphia, Green Bay, Memphis and Santa Fe. New Yorkers at Tribeca's FLEA Theater were entranced by her "stunning" one-woman POETRY SONG THEATRE, a self-staged adaptation of French and American Art Song.
In the 2004/5 season, Ms. Venditti revealed her vocal and linguistic flexibility to audiences in Germany in her first season as Mezzo-soprano soloist with the Staatstheater, Nürnberg in the title role of DIE GROSSHERZOGIN VON GEROLSTEIN, Mère Marie LES DIALOGUES DES CARMELITES and Suzuki in MADAMA BUTTERFLY. Ms. Venditti's first Flosshilde and Schwertleite in Wagner DER RING DES NIBELUNGEN with the Bejing Music Festival under Maestro Phillipe Augin helped produce a Top Prize award of "Best of the Fest" for Staatstheater Nürnberg's China premiere.
A critic‘s favourite at the State Theater of Nürnberg, Tara Venditti was named "spunky" as Hänsel HÄNSEL UND GRETEL, "charming" as Lola CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA, and gave "acrobatic" animation to Smeraldina in Beverly Blankenship's highly regarded staging of Prokoviev LOVE OF THREE ORANGES, embodied the "hot-blooded" Aldonza in a new production of MAN OF LA MANCHA for the Staatstheater Nürnberg, as well as Rosina IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA, Siebel FAUST and Maddalena in RIGOLETTO.
Audiences had the chance to hear Tara Venditti in the title role of Orfeo in ORFEO ED EURIDICE as part of the acclaimed International Gluck Festival of Nuremberg in March of 2008. As well as reviving the roles of Hänsel, Siebel and Rosina, Tara Venditti embodied the beautiful Olga in the Nuremberg State Theater‘s new production of EUGENE ONEGIN (in Russian) in May 2008.
In 2005, Tara Venditti was the featured soloist in the annual TV show "SWING IT!" with the Thilo Wolf Big Band, which also aired in it's entirety on German Bayerischer Rundfunk Radio. In 2004, Ms. Venditti accepted the First Place Award in the Art Song Category for the Joyce Dutka Arts Foundation Competition, which was featured on WQXR and New York Public Television. She was a Finalist in the 2000 Joy in Singing Award Competition and a Semi-finalist in the 1998 Houston Grand Opera Studio competition. Tara Venditti earned her B.Mus. degree from renowned Oberlin College Conservatory of Music as the Dean's Scholar of Voice, her M.Mus. degree from the Manhattan School of Music as a Merit Scholar, a Performance Certificate in Artsong from Salzburg's Akademie Mozarteum and was awarded the 1989 Levine School of Music Scholar as a full scholarship recipient.
Ever since her time at Oberlin Conservatory, where she was invited by the Voice Faculty to teach voice for the conservatory during her studies, Tara Venditti has dedicated much of her time and energies to instruction. She studied Vocal Pedagogy with teaching legend, Richard Miller, and is currently esteemed for her ability to efficiently transform singers' technical challenges through her direct perception and unique physical approach to students individual needs. As well as maintaining a private studio of successful singers since 1994, Tara Venditti has taught voice at the National Theater Workshop for the Handicapped in Belfast, Maine (USA) and has held the position of Associate Teacher of Singing for the University Conservatories of Nuremberg-Augsburg (Germany). She was assigned to the singers of the International Opera Studio of the Nuremberg State Opera from 2006-2008.
Ms Venditti recently appeared in Peter Langdal's original and popular staging of DIE FLEDERMAUS with Opera de Lyon, and sang Frasquita (mezzo version) in CARMEN with the Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra under the baton of Maestro Gustavo Dudamel in Venezuela. Future plans include her UK debut with London's Opera Holland Park as CARMEN, the title-role (official cover) TAMERLANO for the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, her concert debut with the Macedonian Philharmonic Orchestra in Skopje, the role of Ophélie in the world premiere of Pierre Thilloy's LE JOUR DES MEURTRES for Opéra-Théâtre de Metz, and her Teatro Alla Scala debut as Frasquita CARMEN.
