{"id":466,"date":"2012-09-20T18:36:05","date_gmt":"2012-09-20T18:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/somainfo.org\/?page_id=466"},"modified":"2017-03-17T21:44:15","modified_gmt":"2017-03-17T21:44:15","slug":"first-place-dalma-boronkai","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/?page_id=466","title":{"rendered":"2006 First Place : Dalma Boronkai"},"content":{"rendered":"

Soprano<\/span><\/h4>\n

Recipient of the 2006 First Place<\/h4>\n

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Audience Choice Award<\/h4>\n

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Dalma Boronkai<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

Dalma Boronkai, Hungarian-American soprano has performed lead roles in Purcell\u2019s DIDO and AENEAS, Mozart\u2019s Le NOZZE di FIGARO and Poulenc\u2019s DIALOGUE of the CARMELITES.\u00a0 She has won numerous vocal awards and competitions including 1st Place at the Tuesday Music Club Competition, 1st\u00a0 Place at the New Jersey Association of Verismo Opera Competition, for which she sang at Carnegie Hall.\u00a0 Dalma was also a finalist for the San Francisco Merola Opera Program, Seattle Opera, Santa Fe Opera, The Dallas Opera Guild Vocal Competition, the Palm Beach Opera Competition and the New York International Opera Program.<\/span><\/p>\n

Dalma\u2019s sacred music performances include Mozart\u2019s Exultate, Jubilate with the Houston Chamber Orchestra at Zilkha Hall and Bach\u2019s Jauchzet Gott in allan Landen with the Houston Bach Society.<\/span><\/p>\n

She is an honors graduate of Houston Baptist University where she earned her Bachelor of Music degree in Vocal Performance and also holds a Master of Music degree in Vocal Performance from the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University.<\/span><\/p>\n

This past summer, Dalma traveled to Italy to study with Benita Valente at the Florence Voice Seminar and then Rome to sing Gilda in Verdi\u2019s RIGOLETTO at the New Operafestival di Roma.<\/span><\/p>\n

September of 2006 Dalma performed Gilda in Verdi\u2019s\u00a0 RIGOLETTO with Opera in the Heights, Houston, Texas.\u00a0 After winning first place in the Lois Alba Aria Competition, she was engaged to sing Adina in Donizetti\u2019s L\u2019ELISIR D\u2019AMORE at Opera in the Heights and will also appear there as Susanna in LE\u00a0<\/span>NOZZE DI FIGARO during the 2007-2008 season.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Sunday, September 17, 2006<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n

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