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Eliza O’Malley- Biography
San Francisco Bay Area soprano Eliza O’Malley has performed leading roles throughout Northern California. Over the past two years, she has performed the roles of Violetta in La Traviata, Susanna in The Marriage of Figaro, Antigone in Mark Alburger’s Antigone, as well as Nedda in Pagliacci. She also enjoyed giving the premiere of Peter Josheff’s new chamber opera Inferno last June. She looks forward to singing the role of Suor Angelica in the coming months as well as a one-act opera by Jeff Meyers and an improvised opera by William Crossman. A lover of new music, O’Malley has also premiered works by Alexis Alrich, Stephen Clark, Allan Crossman, Sheli Nan, Lisa Scola Prosek, Mary Watkins and more.
Companies with whom O’Malley has sung roles include Goat Hall Productions/San Francisco Cabaret Opera, Verismo Opera, The Santa Cruz Chamber Orchestra, Oakland Opera Theater, Berkeley Opera, Solo Opera, BASOTI and Capitol Opera Sacramento. She also sang the role of Emma in a workshop production of Khovanshchina conducted by Kent Nagano. She produces and sings in the “Dazzling Divas” nights of opera arias at the Bateau Ivre and a series of monthly Work-in-Progress concerts at the Chamber Arts House in Berkeley, which she helped to found.
Raised in Berkeley, California, soprano Eliza O’Malley received training in the summer programs AIMS in Graz, Austria, Aspen School of Music, the Wesley Balk Institute and BASOTI as well as at Oberlin College. She earned an M.M. in Voice Performance at Texas Tech University School of Music.
In addition to performing, Eliza is a voice teacher both at the East Bay Center for Performing Arts and privately, as well as a piano teacher at the Chinese American International School. Her singing students have been awarded professional engagements as well as leading roles in their high school musicals.
