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Back to Biographies Mara Bonde Massachusetts-based soprano Mara Bonde has performed in diverse venues throughout the United States and this season traveled to Brussels, Belgium, with Boston Musical Theater for the NATO Fiftieth-Birthday Tribute. Locally Ms. Bonde has sung with the Handel & Haydn Society and Boston Baroque, and in the Time's Arrow series at Boston University. Recently she has sung with the Hingham Symphony Orchestra in excerpts from Handel's Messiah and in the world premiere of Alexandros Kalogeras's Et in Terra Pax; Mozart's Sub tuum praesidium with the Handel and Haydn Society, Webern's Fünf Geistliche Lieder and Schwantner's Sparrows at the Time's Arrow series. Her operatic roles include Zerlina in Mozart's Don Giovanni at the Bay Area Summer Opera Theatre Institute in San Francisco, Adina in Donizetti's The Elixir of Love at the Lowell House Opera and with Longwood Opera in Boston, and Pamina in Mozart's The Magic Flute at Prism Opera in Boston; in June she will appear as Berta in Rossini's The Barber of Seville at the Lake George Opera Festival. Ms. Bonde has also been involved in the educational outreach programs of the Handel & Haydn Society and Opera New England. Her music theater roles have included Marian in The Music Man at Norwood's Fiddlehead Theatre and Tuptim in the Reagle Player's production of The King and I. Mara Bonde has worked with conductors such as Martin Pearlman, Julian Wachner, and the late Robert Shaw; she appears as a soloist in Ravel's Trois Beaux Oiseaux du Paradis on that conductor's Telarc recording Appear and Inspire. Ms. Bonde received her master's degree from Boston University and a bachelor's degree from Mount Holyoke College. In 1996 she was a Vocal Chamber Music Fellow at the Aspen Music Festival and in 1993 she was a member of Phyllis Curtin's Vocal Seminar at the Tanglewood Music Center. |