Stefanie Anduri, BRUNNHILDE
Dramatic soprano Stefanie Anduri will portray central character Brunnhilde. She is passionate about bringing to life the stories of human struggle and oppression. On the operatic stage, this passion has been clearly felt by audiences in her portrayals of Krystyna Zwulska in Jake Heggie’s Another Sunrise and Farewell Auschwitz, Elle in Francis Poulenc’s La
Voix humaine, Giorgetta in Giacomo Puccini’s Il Tabrro, Santuzza in Pietro Mascagni’s Cavalleria rusticana, Angelica in Puccini’s Suor Angelica, Lia in Debussy’s L’Enfant prodigue, and La Contessa in Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro among others.
Anduri’s desire to use her voice as a tool for engendering empathy, compassion, and understanding has spawned her deep exploration of concert works and art songs spanning a wide swath of vocal and musical styles. After singing both the classical and Middle Eastern chant solos in Karl Jenkins’ Stabat
Mater, she found further opportunities to convey the human experience in musical theatre, jazz, and contemporary classical works that call for non-traditional techniques. Her artistic output as a co-founder of Art Song Colorado has led to concert engagements with the Western Colorado Concert Series, the
Blue Sage Concert Series, the Opera Fort Collins Guild, and the Ouray County Performing Arts Guild.
Her performance career spans three decades and three continents. She is a regular soloist with the Grand Junction Symphony Orchestra and Western Colorado Chorale, and has sung on stages in South Korea, Germany, Italy, and across the US, most notably as a featured soloist at Carnegie Hall in 2017.
Dr. Anduri holds a DMA in Vocal Performance and Pedagogy from The University of Southern Mississippi, an MM in Vocal Performance from the University of Florida, and a BM in Vocal Performance from Colorado State University. She is the co-founder of Sing For Your Lives, a music advocacy and performance coaching organization that empowers singers, performing artists, and music educators to utilize their gifts to their fullest capacity in order to make the world a better place.
BRUNNHILDE is a beautifully formidable shield-maiden (or Valkyrie). She is Wotan’s daughter and, once immortal as the gods, now mortal as she defied her father in an attempt to save her lover’s (Siegfried) father (Sigmund). It is her actions that, in the end, bring about the fall of Valhalla.
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