Ida Nicolosi, a
“bright, beautiful soprano voice” (Kansas
City Star) holds both her Bachelors in Music Education and her Masters in
Vocal Performance and Pedagogy from Westminster Choir College in Princeton, New
Jersey.She completed apprenticeships
with the Des Moines Metro Opera and the Janiec Opera Company.Ms. Nicolosi has sung with the Spoletto
Festival USA, Lincoln Center Festival in NYC, Kansas City Puccini Festival,
Opera Iowa, Lyric Opera of Kansas City Educational Outreach Troupe, The Gotham
Chamber Opera, The Des Moines Metro Opera, Brevard Music Center, Blacksburg
Master Chorale, and the Kansas City Civic Opera.She has performed a variety of roles
including Lisette (La Rondine), La
Rana (La bella dormente nel bosco), Despina
(Cosi fan tutte), Pamina (Die Zauberflöte), Sister Constance (The Dialogues of the Carmelites),
Susanna (Le Nozze di Figaro), Mabel (The Pirates of Penzance), and Lucy (The Telephone).
Equally excelling in opera, oratorio, and early music, Ms.
Nicolosi has performed the soprano solos for such works as Bach’s B-Minor Mass and St. John Passion, Handel’s Dixit
Dominus, Mozart’s Solemn Vespers,
Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass, Vivaldi’s Gloria, Mendelssohn’s Elijah, and Vaughan-William’s Dona Nobis Pacem.Ms. Nicolosi is also a sought-after performer
of contemporary music and her recent performances of Olivier Messiaen’s Poemes pour Mi and George Crumb’s Apparitions received high acclaim.As a choral musician, she has sung with
Armonia Early Music Ensemble, KC Collegium Vocale, and is currently a member of
the Simon Carrington Chamber Singers.
Ms. Nicolosi taught voice at the Conservatory of Music and
Dance at the University of Missouri-Kansas City for five years shortly after
pursuing an artist diploma in opera performance.She currently teaches courses in music
education, music appreciation, and studio voice at Pepperdine University.Upcoming solos performances this spring
include Handel’s Gloria at Whitman
College, a recital of Leonard Bernstein songs at Hartwick College in Oneonta,
NY, and a recital of Italian Baroque Monody at the Prague Choral Festival in
July.
