linda pavelka,mezzo-soprano
Mezzo-Soprano Linda Pavelka has spent the last five years engaged as a member of The Vienna Staatsoper and Volksoper ensemble. There she has been heard regularly singing Sesto in la Clemenza di Tito, Adalgisa in Norma, Angelina in La Cenerentola, Hansel in Hansel und Gretel, Cherubino in La Nozze di Figaro, Orlofsky in Die Fledermaus, Siebel in Faust, Meg Page in Falstaff, and Henri in Opernball. Secondary roles included 2nd and 3rd Ladies in Die Zauberflote, Siegrune in Die Walkyrie with Daniel Barenboim, Parsifal, Knappe, Tannhauser, Hirt, and Mercedes in Carmen.
Ms. Pavelka began her career in Israel, where she performed major roles with the New Israeli Opera Company. Her debut was as Guilietta in Les Ccontes d’Hoffmann. She also performed Siebel in Faust, and Lena in the World Premiere of Josef Tal’s Josef, all directed by David Alden. She participated as Dorabella in Casa fan tutte, Miss Jessel in The Turn of the Screw, a Gastspiel in Frankfurt, Olga in Eugene Onegin, and Hermia in A Midsummer Nights Dream, directed by Brigitte Fassbender, and as Rosina in Il Barbiere di Siviglia directed by Dario Fo.
Linda Pavelka has appeared in operatic and concert stages in Israel, Canada, France, the United States, Germany, Austria, Spain, Finland, and Japan.
She was a featured soloist with every major orchestra in Israel. She has sung with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Zubin Mehta in the Jonathon Miller production of Die Zauberflote and in Lucia di Lammermoor. With the Israel Chamber Orchester she performed with Michel Corboz, and with Asher Fisch singing El Amor Brujo of De Falla, Rossini’s Stabat Mater and Les Nuits d’Ete of Berlioz. The latter work was also performed and broadcast with the Jersualem Symphony Orchestra in Spain performing Bernstein’s Jeremiah, and Ravel’s Sheherezade.
In France, Ms. Pavelka’s first major appearance was as featured soloist with the Orchestre de Paris, singing the leading role in Philippe Manoury’s La Nuit du Sortilege.
In Germany she sang with the Augsburg Opera, the Berlin Kammeroper as Valentiniano in Handel’s Ezio. In the Berlin Festwochen, Pavelka won the prize for outstanding singer-performer, given by the Neue Musiktheater Werkstatt, under the aegis of Dr. Gotz Friedrich, for her performance in Luciano Chailly’s La Cantatrice Calva. In concert, her performances of Ravel’s Sheherezade with the Stuttgart Philharmonic Orchestra were highly acclaimed by the press. Other concerts include Dvorak’s Stabat Mater in the Berlin Philharmonie, Mahler’s 4th Symphony, Berlioz Les Nuits d’Ete and Bach’s Mass in B minor in Canada.
She has toured Japan with the Volksoper performing Die Lustige Witwe and Die Fledermaus and sang as soloist in New Year concerts in Tokyo’s Suntory Hall and throughout the country.
Ms. Pavelka’s American debut was with the Seattle Opera, and Maestro Richard Bradshaw, performing the role of Miss Jessel in Britten’s Turn of the Screw, directed by Mark Lamos. She also sang the role of Prince Orlofsky in the Palm Beach production of Die Fledermaus.
Linda Pavelka has enjoyed her greatest success with the role of Adalgisa in Norma. She debuted the role in the Hawaii Opera Theater, has also performed it in Vienna, and in a Renzo Giachieri production at the New Israel Opera.
Ms. Pavelka has performed with her accompanist, Asher Fisch, numerous recitals and chamber concerts in Israel, France, and in the U.S. at the Ravinia Festival.
