Dolora Zajick is a rare voice type, a true dramatic Verdi mezzo-soprano, typified by the composer's most famous and difficult mezzo-soprano roles, Azucena, Amneris and Eboli (in Il trovatore, Aida and Don Carlo respectively).
She has sung these parts with such companies as the Metropolitan Opera in New York, Chicago's Lyric Opera, the San Francisco Opera, Houston Grand Opera, La Scala, the Vienna Staatsoper, the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Deutsche Staatsoper, Berlin, Paris's Opera Bastille, the companies of Naples, Florence, Barcelona, Rome, Bilbao, Munich, Madrid, and the Salzburg and Orange Festivals.
In addition to the above Verdi roles, she has added Ulrica, Ballo in Maschera, Lady Macbeth, Macbeth, Princess de Bouillon, Cilea's Adriana Lecouvreur, Marfa, Khovanshchina, Jezibaba, Rusalka, Santuzza, Cavalleria Rusticana, Adalgisa, Norma, and the title roles in Tchaikovsky's Joan of Arc, Donizetti's La Favorita, Dalila in Saint-Saens' Samson et Dalila, and Massenet's Hérodiade .
She has appeared in opera and concert with some of the foremost conductors of today, including, Bruno Bartoletti, James Conlon, Daniele Gatti, Valery Gergiev, James Levine, Lorin Maazel, Charles Mackerras, Zubin Mehta, Riccardo Muti, Mstislav Rostropovich, and Michael Tilson Thomas.
Ms. Zajick's recordings include Aida, Il Trovatore and Don Carlo (Sony Classical) conducted by James Levine; La forza del destino and the Verdi Requiem with Riccardo Muti (EMI); Alezander Nevsky with Mstislav Rostropovich and Hérodiade with Valery Gergiev (Sony Classical); Rusalka with Sir Charles Mackerras (Decca). She has just released her first solo disc Dolora Zajick: The Art of the Dramatic Mezzo-soprano (Telarc).
Recent engagements include Eboli with Los Angeles Opera, Azucena in Chicago and Madrid, Santuzza at the Metropolitan Opera, Joan of Arc with the Collegiate Choral (New York), Amneris in Houston and Verona, and Adalgisa in Barcelona.
Dolora Zajick is represented by Intermusica in the UK
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