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Grace Echauri
Mezzo-Soprano
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The young Mexican mezzo-soprano Grace Echauri was born in Guadalajara
and at a very early age, she made her operatic debut there as
Maddalena in Rigoletto with the Guadalajara Opera. She
has appeared at the Palacio de Bellas Artes as Isabella in L’Italiana
in Algeri, Azucena in Il Trovatore, La Gran Duqesa
in Alicia, and Soledad in La Mulata de Cordoba.
She also participated
in a gala operatic concert at the Bellas Artes performing arias
and ensembles with Placido Domingo. Ms. Echauri has sung with
all the major opera companies in Mexico, and many companies in
the United States and Thailand. She has apppeared in such roles
as Dinah in Trouble in Tahiti, Rosina in Il Barbiere
di Siviglia, Luisa Fernanda, Carmen, Amneris
in Aida, Angelina in La Cenerentola, Nicklausse
in Les Contes d’Hoffmann, and Suzuki in Madama
Butterfly, under the direction of internationally renowned
conductors as Marco Armiliato, Enrique Patrón de Rueda,
Anton Coppola, Eduardo Diazmuñoz, Somtow Sucharitkul, Alfredo
Silipigni, and Giampaolo Bracali.
Ms. Echauri
received the prestigious MOZART AWARD by the Austrian Embassy
in Mexico in recognition of her excellent musicianship, which
she especially demonstrated in her six CDs of contemporary operatic
and symphonic music.
In France, one of those CDs, the opera Ildegonda by Melesio
Morales received the MICHEL GARCIN “Orphée dór
Award in 1996 as “The record of the year”. In 1999
she was the winner of the International Vincenzo Bellini Vocal
Competition in Italy.
Her repertoire
also includes many symphonic works, such as the Mahler Symphony
No. 2 and Symphony No. 8, and Das Klagende Lied,
Verdi Requiem, Mozart Coronation Mass and Requiem,
Handel’s Messiah, Bach Mass in B minor
and Christmas Oratorio, Beethoven Symphony No. 9,
De Falla El Amor Brujo, among others. She has sung with
the most important symphony orchestras in Mexico, as well as the
Palermo Sinfonica, the Lehman College Symphony Orchestra and the
Bangkok Symphony Orchestra.
In April 2005,
Ms. Echauri sang Amneris in Aida with the Bangkok Opera,
where she will return in September 2005 for the world premiere
of Mae Naak by Somtow Sucharitkul. In October 2005, she
will sing the Verdi Requiem under the direction of Placido
Domingo in Mexico City and in November 2005, Amneris in Aida
with Boheme Opera New Jersey. Next season her engagements will
include Nicklausse in Les Contes d’Hoffmann starring
Ramón Vargas at the Bellas Artes.
In addition
to the above-mentioned Ildegonda, her recordings include the world
premiere of the opera Madre Juana by Federico Ibarra,
the dramatic oratorio Brindis por un Milenio, written
especially for Ms. Echauri by Mr. Ibarra, the Mahler Symphony
No. 8 with the Xalapa Symphony Orchestra recorded live at
the Bellas Artes, an album of Sacred and Christmas music, and
an album of Arias and Duets.
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