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2) has been acclaimed for the agility
and expressive power of her dark-hued
mezzo-soprano in a wide repertoire, with
a special focus on the music of Mozart
and Rossini. Possessing a voice The New
York Times calls “subtle and pure,” she
distinguished herself in the role of Isolier
in Rossini’s Le Comte Ory while still a
member of the Juilliard Opera Center.
During the 2013 –2014 season, she returns to the Metropolitan Opera singing
the role of Kitchen-Boy in Rusalka alongside Renée Fleming. She will also appear
as Rosina in a concert version of The Barber of Seville with Orlando Philharmonic.
Ms. Boulianne will make her Carnegie
Hall debut performing Beethoven’s Missa
Solemnis with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s
under the baton of Sir Roger Norrington.
She will also make her debut with Cleveland Orchestra singing in The Cunning
Little Vixen conducted by Franz WelserMöst. Other season highlights include
performances of Handel’s Messiah with
the Minnesota Orchestra and Colorado
Symphony, Mahler’s Symphony No. 2
with Orchestra Iowa and St. Matthew
Passion with Orchestre Métropolitain
in Montréal.
A graduate of McGill University’s
Schulich School of Music, Julie Boulianne won the First Prize in both the Canadian Music Competition and the Joy
of Singing Competition in New York.
She has also been awarded the International Vocal Arts Institute’s Silverman
Prize, and in 2007, the Prix de la Chambre des Directeurs for Most Promising
Career at the Concours International de
Chant de Montréal.
Katie deBuys
Katie deBuys (Hermia, Peter Quince
(Prologue), Cobweb)
is thrilled to work
with the Folger Theatre and the Baltimore
Symphony Orchestra on this collaboration. Ms. deBuys has previously acted
at the Folger as Princess Katherine and
the Boy in Henry V, The Duck in The
Conference of the Birds and Lady Lucy
in The Gaming Table. Other D.C. area
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theater credits include Seminar at Round
House Theatre, Measure for Measure at
Shakespeare Theatre Company and In
the Next Room (Or the Vibrator Play) at
Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company.
Regional credits include Bug (B. Iden
Payne Award: Best Actress) and Killer
Joe at Capital T Theatre in Austin,
Texas and Twelfth Night and Julius Caesar
at the Texas Shakespeare Festival. Ms.
deBuys received a BS in theater from
Northwestern University and an MFA
in acting from The University of Texas
at Austin. She is a native of Santa Fe,
New Mexico, and came to reside in DC
via Chicago and Austin.
Ying Fang
Ying Fang, soprano
(Fairy 1) has been
hailed by The New
York Times for her
“pure and moving soprano, phrasing
with scrupulous respect for the line and
traveling with assurance through the
mercurial moods,” as well as “singing
with a fresh, appealing soprano and
acting with coquettish flair.” Ms. Fang
has most recently made her Metropolitan
Opera debut in their 2013 –2014 season
singing the role of Madame Podtochina’s
Daughter in Shostakovich’s opera The
Nose. Ms. Fang performed the role of
Contessa di Folleville in Rossini’s Il
Viaggio a Reims with Wolf Trap Opera
Company. She sang Bellezza in Handel’s
oratorio Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno conducted by William Christie
at Alice Tully Hall. She was also heard
in the role of Pamina in Mozart’s Die
Zauberflöte, Maria in Bernstein’s West
Side Story with the Aspen Opera Theater
Center. She sang the soprano solo in Carl
Orff’s Carmina Burana with the National Symphony Orchestra at the Filene
Center in Wolf Tr