DIANA CANTRELLE
Dramatic Mezzo-Soprano, Actor, Composer, Teacher
5’ 5”; Auburn Hair; Hazel Eyes cell: (410) 207-8687
www.dianacantrelle.com www.opusconcerttheatre.com http://www.youtube.com/dianacantrellediva dianacantrelle@gmail.com
SAG, AGMA
Bellini Norma Adalgisa
Bizet Carmen-Vive la Liberté Carmen
Cantrelle Le Chat Botté (Puss in Boots) Bootsie the Cat
Darion & Leigh Man of La Mancha Aldonza
Dickens, Charles A Christmas Carol Belle / Charwoman
Donizetti La Favorita Leonora
Gilbert & Sullivan Mikado Katisha
Pirates of Penzance Ruth
Giordano Andrea Chénier Madelon
Humperdinck Hänsel & Gretel Witch
Lorka & Wimhurst Blood Wedding Mother-in-Law/ Voice of Fate
McNally Frankie & Johnny in the Clair de Lune Frankie – Scenes – NYC
Menotti Amahl & the Night Visitors Mother
The Medium Madame Flora (Baba)
Norman & Simon Secret Garden Martha
Puccini Suor Angelica Zia Principessa & Mother Abbess
Gianni Schicchi Zita
Madama Butterfly Suzuki
Purcell Dido & Aeneas Dido & Sorceress
Rogers & Hammerstein The King & I Lady Thiang
Romberg The Desert Song Clementina
Rossini La Cenerentola Tisbe
Stravinsky The Rakes Progress Mother Goose
Tchaikovsky Nutcracker Moscow Ballet Tour – Vocals
Letters of Tchaikovsky Countess Nadezhda von Meck
Tozer & Cantrelle All that Glitters Rusty the Pirate
Verdi AÏDA Amneris
La Forza del Destino Gypsy Preziosilla
Rigoletto Maddalena
Il Trovatore Azucena
Von Bingen Ordo Virtutum Chastita
COMPANIES: Chalice Concert Series; Hippodrome-Moscow Ballet; Capitol Operas NY & PA; Baltimore Lyric; Vocalypse – Nova Scotia; Opus Concert Theatre; Divertimento Orchestra-Canada; NE Oratorio & Orchestra Society of Philadelphia; Undercroft Pittsburgh Opera; Washington Savoyards; Silesian Theatre-Czech Rep.; Clarence Brown Theatre; Wolf Trap Opera; Kennedy Center; Townsend Opera Players; Olympian Theatre-Greece; Cincinnati Opera; Pacific Symphony; Opera Santa Barbara; Peabody Opera, Atlantic Coast Opera Festival.
AWARDS: The American Prize Finalist in Opera, Art Song/Oratorio 2019/20; Finalist in Opera 2019 & 2018;
Best of Columbia Award 2019; Lillian Howard Mann Memorial Voice Award 2012; Peabody Conservatory Scholarship 2009 – 2012; Peabody Career Grant- 2015 – Vive la France CD – featuring my own compositions;
2010 for my work – Le Chat Botté – Puss in Boots – 1 Act Opera; AIMS Graz, Austria; Goethe Institut-Murnau, Germany Scholarship; MacAllister Awards LA; MET Encouragement Award; Pasadena Opera Guild Award.
CONDUCTORS – Julian Benichou, Anna Binneweg, Douglas Byerly, Eileen Cornett, John DeMain, T. Herbert Dimmock, Klaus Donath, J. Ernest Green, James Harp, Martin Knoblaugh, Luke Housner, Nonna Kaler-Slutsky, JoAnn Kulesza, Brent McMunn, Ghenady Meirson, Walter Morales, Edoardo Müller, Hajime Teri Murai, Thomas Pedersen, Edward Polochick, Richard Allen Roe, Valéry Ryvkin, Simeone Tartaglione, Jordan Randall Smith, Gordon Slater, Georg Tintner, Antony Walker, Steven White
TV & FILM
The Wire Numerous Episodes HBO – Baltimore, MD
Step Up Parent/Teacher Disney Pictures
Something the Lord Made Lousia-Party Guest HBO – Baltimore, MD
Pledge Drive Co-HostKOCE – TV California
American Musical Recital Lead Greek National Television
Blockbuster Video Diva Customer Jack Morton Productions
French/German Translator Voiceover Talent Palencia Properties-FLA
Bargaining with God Rachel PSA – West Hills Medical
Concourse Voiceover Talent Hallmark Partners – Webcast & DVD
ORATORIO Contralto SOLOIST – Brahms Opus 91; Bach Cantatas 162 & 188; Christmas Oratorio; Vivaldi Gloria, Bach Magnificat in D, Howell Requiem, Beethoven’s 9th – Soloist (ready); Beethoven Mass in C, Bernstein Chichester Psalms, Britten Rejoice in the Lamb, Copland In the Beginning, Handel Messiah, Haydn Lord Nelson Mass, Mozart Solemn Vespers, Saint-Sæns – Oratorio de Nőel; Cantorial Soloist
EDUCATION & TRAINING
Current Teachers – Dr. John Van Cura – Voice, Craig Wallace – Shakespeare, Tom Todoroff – Acting
Peabody Conservatory of Music –
Masters in Voice Performance/Vocal Pedagogy 2012 GPA – 3.9
VOICE: Carmen Balthrop, François Loup, William Sharp
Composition Minor Lessons – Judah Adashi
Zertifikat Deutsch als Fremdsprache – Goethe Institute – Murnau, Germany & Washington, DC; Russian Opera Workshop;
BA – Communications – Florida State University; Teachers – Marvellee Cariaga, Florence Kopleff
ACTING: Tom Todoroff Intensive-DC & NYC, John Astin, Garnett Bruce,Roger Brunyate, MAKO, Frank Wittow, Peter Harrower Opera Workshop, AIMS – Graz, Austria, Federico Davia – Commedia Dell’Arte, Lin White, Marc Verzatt
COACHES: Michael Adcock, Susan Morton, Eileen Cornett, Robert Hiller-Stuttgart Hochschüle für Musik, Robert Muckenfuss, Joy Schreier, Henri Venanzi, John Shirley-Quirk.
OTHER SKILLS: Voiceover Artist; Accents & Regional Dialects; Russian Diction;Fluent in German & French, Proficient in Italian & Spanish; Equestrienne, Composer, Cantor, Dancer (Tap, Modern, Jazz, Ballroom)
Plays Guitar, Flute, Piano and Percussion;
Librettist with a Heart of a Poet 😀
