Opera San José - Cybele Gouverneur

Cybele Gouverneur,
Mezzo-soprano

*Don and Jan Schmidek Fellow*

During the 2008 - 2009 season, resident artist Cybele Gouverneur performs the roles of Olga (Eugene Onegin), Dorabella (Così fan tutte), and the title role in Carmen. Ms. Gouverneur joined 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).

Her most recent engagement included her debut with San Francisco Opera as Alisa in their June 2008 production of Lucia di Lammermoor. Other recent roles performed 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 Don and Jan Schmidek.

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