Italian-American soprano, Claire Vangelisti's voice has graced both national and international stages. In 1998, her international debut was well received in Lisbon, Portugal at the Centro Cultural de Belém where she presented a solo recital of Twentieth Century American Music. Invited to return to Lisbon in 1999, Ms. Vangelisti performed an additional solo recital and toured as concert soloist with the Orchestra Filarmonia das Beiras under the baton of Osvaldo Ferrierra, where her renderings of Mozart arias acquired extensive audience acclaim.
In the United States, Ms. Vangelisti has performed as concert soloist in many works including Mozart's Great Mass in C Minor, Solemn Vespers and Mass in C Major, as well as Handel's Judas Maccabaeus and Messiah, Haydn's Lord Nelson Mass and Missa in tempori belli, Honneggar’s King David, Charpentier’s Te Deum, Schubert Mass No. 2 in G Major, Vivaldi Gloria and Monteverdi’s Vespro Della Beata Vergine.
Ms. Vangelisti made her American operatic debut as an apprentice with the Austin Lyric Opera Young Artist Program, where she had the opportunity to perform several cameo roles in mainstage productions such as Rigoletto, The Ballad of Baby Doe, as well as the role of Papagena in Die Zauberflöte. She has continued her stage career as a key player in the Gilbert and Sullivan Society of Austin performing the roles of Lady Ella in Patience, Josephine in H.M.S. Pinafore, Gianetta in The Gondoliers and Mabel in The Pirates of Penzance. Vangelisti’s Mabel won a B. Iden Payne Award for “Best Actress in a Musical” as well as a nomination for “Best Actress in a Musical,” Austin Critics Table Award. Additional roles performed include Marsinah in Kismet with the San Antonio Symphony and Gianetta in L'Elisir d'Amore with The Lyric Opera of San Antonio.
Vangelisti has appeared as a guest soloist with The Texas Chamber Consort, Southwest Opera, Capital City Men's Chorus, Austin Civic Chorus, Austin Civic Orchestra, Temple Civic Chorus, Temple Symphony Orchestra, Laredo Philharmonic Orchestra, Austin Summer Choral Symposium, Austin Symphonic Band and the Austin Chamber Ensemble. Vangelisti is passionate about supporting living American composers and demonstrated this commitment in the Fall of 2002 by performing a solo recital of American Twentieth Century Song in Aveiro, Portugal, including the world premiere of Letting Go, a song cycle by composer Daron Hagen.
Upcoming engagements in Spring 2006 include three performances of Shostakovich’s Seven Romances on Poems by A. Blok with the Austin Chamber Ensemble as part of “Shostakovich 100,” a year long festival celebrating the 100th anniversary of the composer’s birth. Vangelisti will also appear with the San Gabriel Chorale for their rendition of Bach’s St. Mark Passion.
