Rochelle Bard,
Soprano
(2006 - 2008)

In April 2010, ROCHELLE BARD appeared as Magda in Opera Tampa's production of La rondine. Ms. Bard was also a featured soloist in Bach's St. John Passion with the Pioneer Valley Symphony Orchestra and in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony with the Cambridge Symphony Orchestra. In Fall of 2009, Ms. Bard appeared in recital with husband Kenneth Mattice in Tolland, Connecticut.

Highlights of the 2008 - 2009 season featured Ms. Bard as Micaela (Carmen) with Ash Lawn Opera, Hanna Glawari (The Merry Widow) for Altamura Center for the Arts and St. Petersburg Opera, the title role in Lucia di Lammermoor for Opera Idaho, Gilda (Rigoletto) for Rockland Opera, the Foreign Princess (Rusalka) with Boston Lyric Opera and Musetta (La bohème) with Sacramento Opera.

In May 2007, Ms. Bard won First Place in the Classical Singer Magazine's Annual Competition, and was featured in a full-length article that appeared in the magazine. She was a finalist in the Semi-Finals of the Seoul International Music Competition in Korea, where she competed with singers from 16 different countries for two weeks in November, 2007.

Ms. Bard made her Opera San José debut as a principal artist of OSJ's resident company in the roles of Juliette (Roméo et Juliette), Violetta (La traviata) and Cio-Cio-San (Madama Butterfly) during the 2006 - 2007 season. During her second year residency with the company, Ms. Bard performed the title role in Lucia di Lammermoor, Gilda (Rigoletto), and Pamina (The Magic Flute). 

In 2005, Ms. Bard was a Studio Artist with Baltimore Opera where she sang the roles of Barbarina (Le nozze di Figaro) and Giannetta (L’Elisir d’Amore) as well as covered the roles of the Countess (Le nozze di Figaro) and Giulietta (Les Contes d’Hoffmann). Other performances include Gilda (Rigoletto) with Cape Cod Opera, Anna Maurant (Street Scene) with Maine Grand Opera, the title role in The Merry Widow with New England Light Opera, Louise (La Vie Parisienne) with Opera Boston, Antonia (The Tales of Hoffman) with Longwood Opera and Cunegonde (Candide) with the New England Conservatory of Music. As a vocal fellow at Tanglewood, Ms. Bard performed a lead role in an acclaimed world premiere opera, Rage d’Amours, commissioned by the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

Ms. Bard was recently named a Winner in the George London Foundation Competition, Classical Singer Competition, Licia Albanese-Puccini Foundation Competition, and the San Francisco Region of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Awards. She was also a National Finalist in the prestigious MacAllister Awards and the Fritz and Lavinia Jensen Competition.

For more information, please visit Ms. Bard's website: http://www.rochellebard.com/.