Sylvia Stoner, Soprano
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Career encompasses total diversity: singing, acting, teaching, directing, production, and creation. Never allow yourself to be labeled and boxed.
Teaching singing equates to training an athlete. My pedagogy looks at the whole person, encouraging overall wellness and a development of your unique sound.
I always knew that I loved to sing in front of a live audience and teach students in the same room, but the pandemic has taught me to celebrate every miraculous moment of personal connection.
Sylvia Stoner is a diverse professional singer and actor, and has performed across the country in opera and theater. Regional opera credits include the Des Moines Metro Opera, Shreveport Opera, Opera Omaha, Mobile Opera, Union Avenue Opera, Kentucky Opera, Lake George Opera, Lyric Opera of Kansas City, Kansas Concert Opera and the Kansas City Puccini Festival. Selected roles include Lisa in Pikovaya Dama, Tatiana in Eugene Onegin, Manon in Manon Lescaut, Nedda in I Pagliacci, and Marguerite in Faust. She has performed various chamber works in Italy at the InterHarmony International Music Festival and with Orvieto Musica.
Recent engagements include appearances with the Schenectady Symphony as Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni and Fiordiligi in Così fan Tutte. She has also sung with the Saratoga Voices Judas Maccabeus, Battenkill Chorale in Mozart’s Coronation Mass, Whitbourn’s Anneliese, Haydn’s Creation, Verdi’s Requiem, Mozart’s Solemn Vespers, Beethoven’s Mass in C with the Northern Berkshire Chorale, in Orff’s Carmina Burana, and Bernstein’s Songfest with Skidmore College. Upcoming performances include the role of Governess in The Turn of the Screw with the Schenectady Symphony, and Mozart’s Coronation Mass with Saratoga Voices.
She was a regional winner of the National Council Auditions for the Metropolitan Opera, and a finalist in the International Marcella Sembrich competition, the Naftzger and NATS competitions. Acting credits include the national tour of Terence McNally’s Maria Callas: Masterclass, as well as productions with the Kansas City Repertory Theater, the New Theatre, the Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre, Starlight Theater, and Quality Hill Playhouse.
She co-created the staged recital Sister—Show me Eternity based upon the life of Emily Dickinson and her sisters. This unique staging of art song and narrative continues to tour nationally since its premiere. Most recently, it was featured on the DeBlasiis Concert Series (NY), and a prior tour in the Midwest.
She obtained her Doctorate of Musical Arts Degree with honors in vocal performance at the University of Kansas and is currently a Senior Artist-in-Residence in Voice at Skidmore College.