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Veronica Tyler
Soprano

 

Veronica Tyler, soprano, director, producer, teacher, earned degrees at the Peabody Conservatory of Music with subsequent study at the Julliard School of Music and received from the College of Notre Dame of Maryland the degree, Doctor of Humane Letters (honoris causa). Her career was highlighted early with a first prize in the Munich International Competition in Germany and she was the New York regional winner of the Metropolitan Opera Auditions, going on to win the Fisher Foundation award.


Ms. Tyler's television, film, radio, Broadway and concert career has included opera, oratorio, symphonic engagements and solo recitals throughout the world. She has been guest soloist with: The New York Philharmonic, the Oslo Philharmonic; the Los Angeles, Boston, Houston, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, St. Louis, New Jersey, Buffalo, Florida, Atlanta, and National Symphony Orchestras, and a host of others. Among the conductors under whose baton she has sung are Maestros Leonard Bernstein, Richard Bonynge, Eugene Ormandy, Carlo Maria Guilini, Julius Rudel, Leopold Stokowski, Zubin Mehta, Erich Leinsdorf, Walter Susskind, Abraham Kaplan, Robert Shaw, Sergiu Commissiona, Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, William Steinberg, James Levine, Gerald Levine, and Tamas Vasary.

 

Ms. Tyler has also appeared at the Bergen Festival in Norway, the Berkshire Music Festival at Tanglewood, the Hollywood Bowl, the Garden State Festival, the Robin Hood Dell, Radio City Music Hall, the New York City Ballet and with Today's Artists Concerts at Carnegie Hall, Tully Hall, and in San Francisco. Veronica Tyler has sung numerous performances with the New York City Opera, the Metropolitan Opera, the San Francisco Opera and at the Teatro la Fenice in Venice. Her roles include Contessa Almaviva, Pamina, Ilia, Mimi, Liu, Princess Ericlea, Micaela, Serena, Susan B. Anthony, Lucy, Teresa (of Avila) and others.

Ms. Tyler returned to Europe to guest star in Bordeaux, France and in Hannover, Germany. Her "Donna Elvira" was heard on the occasion of the 200-year celebration of Mozart's Don Giovanni with the London Mozart Players at the Seville (Spain)de Contessa Almaviva, Pamina, Ilia, Mimi, Liu, Princess Ericlea, Micaela, Serena, Susan B. Anthony, Lucy, Teresa (of Avila) and others.