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The American soprano, Amanda Lauricella, obtained her Bachelor of Music degree from State University of New York at Potsdam (2010-2014); her Master of Music degree in Voice Performance/Opera from UMass Amherst (2015-2018); and her Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Voice Performance with a minor in Theatre and Drama from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (2017-2021), where she offered a lecture recital on the many musical settings of Hamlet’s Ophelia. This recital presented various psychological interpretations of the character, exploring the motivations for the events surrounding her death through a modern lens, with both mental health and feminism considerations. She was the 2021 recipient of the Charles and Helen Loeb Voice Award, a national semi-finalist for the 2021 NATS Artist Awards, and a finalist for the Musicians Club of Women 2023 Vocal Competition.
Amanda Lauricella has been described as a voice with an “arching thrill to it” (Isthmus.com). Previous roles include Tytania in Benjamin Britten's A Midsummer Night’s Dream, (UW Opera, August 2019) Gretel in Engelbert Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel (Garage Opera, June 2019), Mabel in The Pirates of Penzance (U Mass Amherst, June 2017) Goldie B. Locks in Goldie B. Locks and the Three Singing Bears, (Cedar Rapids Opera, January 2022), the Doctor in the world premiere of The Scarlet Professor (Amherst College, August 2017), and Rosina in Opera for the Young’s The Barber of Seville (May 2022). She has performed as at Tanglewood Music Festival in Lenox, Massachusetts (July 2017-July 2018); Berkshire Opera Festival in Great Barrington, Massachusetts (July-August 2017); Fresco Opera Theatre in Madison, Wisconsin (January 2019-2020); Young Artist at Cedar Rapids Opera Theatre (November 2021-July 2022); Madison Opera (since August 2019); and Berlin Opera Academy. Currently she is touring with Opera for the Young as Beauty in Grétry’s Beauty and the Beast (since May 2022).
Amanda Lauricella has been Teaching Assistant at University of Wisconsin-Madison Mead Witter School of Music (August 2019-2020); Adjunct Professor of Voice at Viterbo University in La Crosse, Wisconsin (August 2021-May 2022); Voice teacher at UW-Madison Summer Music Clinic (since March 2021). She is currently working as an Adjunct Professor of Voice at Carroll University and Beloit College in Beloit, Wisconsin (since August 2021).
Amanda Lauricella has also recently published a vocal repertoire guide for collegiate voice teachers entitled, “Selecting Solo Literature for the Developing Classical Singer: A Pedagogical Repertoire Guide for Teachers of Voice.” This guide enables voice teachers to appropriately select solo repertoire according to three variables: (1) the student’s voice type (soprano, mezzo-soprano, tenor, baritone, bass), (2) the desired language of the repertoire (English, Italian, German, French), and (3) the level of technical difficulty. She currently lives in Madison, Wisconsin. |
