Tessa has held opera fellowships
at Aspen Opera Center, and CU
New Opera Workshop where she
premiered the role of Dame in
Dame, Not Lady by S. Wellington.
Past awards include First Place
in the Florida Grieg Voice
Competition, Winner of The Art of
Art Song Competition, and Winner
of the Franco-American Vocal
Academy’s Grand Concours Prize.
Past recitals have included works
in Nynorsk and Dano-Norwegian,
as well as in the Hindustani and
Carnatic musical styles.
TESSA ROMANO
mezzo-soprano
Tessa Romano is Lecturer in Voice
at the University of Otago School
of Performing Arts.
She received her DMA in Vocal
Performance and Pedagogy from
the University of Colorado Boulder,
her MMus in Vocal Performance
from the University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, and her BA from
Princeton University in Italian and
Vocal Performance. Originally from
Syracuse, New York, Dr Romano
has performed with the Syracuse
Symphony Orchestra, Hartford
Symphony, American Handel
Society, and the Sound Symphony.
She has also worked as a choral
scholar with world-renowned
British a cappella group VOCES8
in their US Choral Scholars
programme and looks forward to
working with them again in the
2020 World Choral Symposium in
Auckland.
Dr Romano has studied under
Jennifer Bird, Freda Herseth,
Christopher Arneson, Richard Lalli,
and Helen Boatwright.
Notable opera roles include
the Mother in Amahl and the
Night Visitors, Tolomeo in Giulio
Cesare, Jade Boucher in Dead
Man Walking, and Mother Marie in
Dialogues des Carmélites.
She is thrilled to be singing with
Auckland Choral in Auckland Town
Hall for the first time.
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