{"id":5805,"date":"2018-08-06T20:05:20","date_gmt":"2018-08-06T20:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/somainfo.org\/?page_id=5805"},"modified":"2018-08-17T22:45:50","modified_gmt":"2018-08-17T22:45:50","slug":"2018-first-place-audience-choice-award-haley-sicking","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/?page_id=5805","title":{"rendered":"2018 First Place Audience Choice Award : Haley Sicking"},"content":{"rendered":"

Soprano<\/span><\/h3>\n

Recipient of the Marianne Ehrlich & Patrick J. Kiley Award<\/h4>\n

\"\"<\/a>Hailed by Opera News as \u201cblossoming in real time\u201d with \u201cher creamily sung Rosalinde” and in Brooklyn Discovery for her \u201cTruly bravura performance! Generous and ample soprano and strong coloratura\u201d, soprano Haley Sicking has thrilled audiences with her versatile performances in opera, concert, recital, musical theatre, jazz, and early and contemporary music. Haley\u2019s recent performances in New York of Rosalinde in Strauss\u2019 die Fledermaus, received great praise and it is quickly becoming one of her signature roles. \u201cAs Rosalinde, Haley Sicking is nothing short of a star: a tireless, secure soprano that managed to be both voluminous and flexible. (Parterre box) Voce di meche also wrote: \u201cIf the role of Rosalinde could have been better portrayed by anyone but stunning soprano Haley Sicking, we have yet to imagine it. Her comedic skills are prodigious and her lusty soprano shone in the Czardas.\u201d\u00a0 Haley recently made her Carnegie Hall debut as a soloist in Rutter\u2019s Requiem and the world premiere of Glasgow\u2019s Requiem. She has also just returned from a concert tour in China where she was honored to perform operatic and musical theatre repertoire in 18 different cities. She has been a soprano soloist with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Abilene Philharmonic, and New England Symphony Orchestra in such scenes as Rosalinde, from Die Fledermaus, by Strauss, Hanna Glawari, from The Merry Widow, by Franz Leh\u00e1r, Marietta, from The Italian Street Song, by Victor Herber, and many others. Haley has performed leading opera roles such as: Rosalinde in Die Fledermaus (German and English), Pamina in Die Zauberfl\u00f6te; Juliette in Rom\u00e9o et Juliette; Fanny in La Cambiale di Matrimonio; and Helena in A Midsummer Night\u2019s Dream. Haley has also performed partial roles as Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro, Li\u00f9 in Turandot, Fiordiligi in Cos\u00ec fan tutte, Amina in La Sonnambula, Lakm\u00e9 in Lakm\u00e9, Lauretta in Gianni Schicchi, Dorabella in Cos\u00ec fan tutte, and Violetta in La Traviata. Some of Haley\u2019s work with Professional ensembles and choruses, as well as Oratorio work includes: Haydn\u2019s The Creation, Bach\u2019s B minor mass, Faure\u2019s Requiem, Handel\u2019s Messiah, Haydn\u2019s Theresianmesse, Mendelssohn\u2019s Saint Paul, Rutter\u2019s Requiem, Dubois\u2019 The Seven Last Words of Christ, Mozart\u2019s Exsultate Jubilate, O\u2019Regan\u2019s The Ecstasies Above, Poulenc\u2019s Tristis Vinea Electa, Saint-Saens\u2019s Christmas Oratorio, Mahler\u2019s Ich bin der Welt – abhanden gekommen and Vaughan Williams\u2019 Serenade to Music.\u00a0 A native of Dallas, TX, Haley holds a Master\u2019s in Music from The Cincinnati Conservatory of Music where she studied with Dr. Barbara Paver. She earned a Bachelors in Music from the University of North Texas, where she was awarded the prestigious Winspear Opera Fellowship and the McKinley award for top incoming student.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Photo by Gwen Juarez<\/p>\n

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2018 Second Place Audience Choice Award : Mariya Kanganskaya<\/span><\/a>
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Soprano Recipient of the Marianne Ehrlich & Patrick J. Kiley Award Hailed by Opera News as \u201cblossoming in real time\u201d with \u201cher creamily sung Rosalinde” and in Brooklyn Discovery for her \u201cTruly bravura performance! Generous and ample soprano and strong coloratura\u201d, soprano Haley Sicking has thrilled audiences with her versatile performances in opera, concert, recital, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":5775,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5805","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5805"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5918,"href":"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5805\/revisions\/5918"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}