Twyla Robinson, soprano
Twyla Robinson is a winner of the 2002 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions and the winner of the 2002 MacAllister Award for Opera Singers. During the 2005-06 season, Ms. Robinson joins the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Robert Spano for their season’s opening concerts as soprano soloist in Mahler’s Symphony No. 2. She returns to Boston Baroque to sing the title role of Handel’s Agrippina and to the Choral Arts Society in Washington, D.C. to sing Handel’s Alexander’s Feast. Ms. Robinson makes her debut with Opernhaus Zürich portraying the role of Florinda in Schubert’s Fierrabras. She also makes her debuts with the London Symphony Orchestra in Bethoveen’s Symphony No. 9, conducted by Bernard Haitink and with the Berlin Staatskapelle in Mahler’s Symphony No. 8, conducted by Pierre Boulez. Also this season, Twyla Robinson joins the Cleveland Orchestra and Franz Welser-Möst to sing Alice Ford in concert performances of Falstaff in Cleveland, Lucerne and Berlin. She makes her debut with the Los Angeles Philharmonic in performances of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 under the direction of Esa-Pekka Salonen. She returns to the Milwaukee Symphony to sing Brahm’s German Requiem and to the San Francisco Opera to portray Contessa Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro.