Bio
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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 few years, she has performed the roles of Norma, Lauretta in Gianni Schicchi, Micaela in Carmen, Gilda in Rigoletto, Suor Angelica, Violetta in La Traviata, Susanna in The Marriage of Figaro, Antigone in Mark Alburger’s Antigone, as well as Nedda in Pagliacci. She looks forward to singing Desdemona in Otello and Lucia in Lucia di Lammermoor in the coming months.
A lover of new music, O’Malley also recently enjoyed giving the premiere of Peter Josheff’s new chamber opera Inferno and singing in an improvised opera on the subject of John Brown by William Crossman. She also recently sang in a new one-act opera by Jeff Meyers.She has premiered works by Alexis Alrich, Stephen Clark, Allan Crossman, Patrick Dailly, 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 the San Francisco Bay Area, 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 teaches voice lessons both at the East Bay Center for Performing Arts and privately. Her singing students have been awarded professional engagements as well as leading roles in their high school musicals.Recently, she led her students in a performance of Purcell’s opera Dido and Aeneas. She also teaches piano lessons at the Chinese American International School.
