Cybele Gouverneur joins Opera San José's resident company during the
2007 - 2008 season, performing the roles of Alisa (Lucia di
Lammermoor), Charlotte (Werther), Maddalena (Rigoletto),
and the Second Lady (The Magic Flute). Ms. Gouverneur's most
recent engagements include the title role in Massenet's Chérubin,
Dorabella (Cosí fan tutte), Minsk Woman in Jonathon Dove's
Flight, Cherubino in Corigliano's The Ghosts of Versailles
and Olga in Kurt Weill's Street Scene, all with the Moores'
Opera Center of University of Houston. Other recent performances
include Second Lady (The Magic Flute), the Stepmother in
Into the Woods, and Octavian in highlights from Der
Rosenkavalier, all with Opera in the Ozarks.
On the concert stage, Ms. Gouverneur performed with Orchestra X of
Houston in Orchestra X Presents PDQ Bach in Houston: We have a
Problem! Featuring Prof. Peter Schickele, and was a featured
soloist in Mozart's Requiem, Bach's Magnificat, and
Dvorak's Mass in D Major in Rye, New York. She has also
presented contemporary music with the OneWorld Symphony in their
New Composer Series and the Riverside Opera Ensemble in a showcase
of The Count of Monte Cristo.
Originally from the Bay Area, Ms. Gouverneur spent her childhood in
South America and the United States and eventually pursued her studies
in New York and Houston. She received her Diploma in Music from Mannes
College of Music, and then obtained a Bachelor of Music from the
Manhattan School of Music. She is currently a student of Joseph Evans
at the University of Houston where she is completing graduate studies.
Ms. Gouverneur was named a winner of the Associated Music Teachers
League of New York Competition, the National Association of Teachers
of Singing Award and has been a grant recipient of the Hispanic
Scholarship Fund.
*Ms. Gouverneur's artist residency is made possible in part by a Fellowship
Grant from the W. Gibson Walters Memorial. |