好莱坞电影乐团女高音歌唱家米歇尔-塞珂斯通

　　特邀著名女高音歌唱家米歇尔•塞珂斯通，以她华丽的舞台形象、灿烂的音质、灵活的歌唱技术，在林肯艺术中心和百老汇等舞台上的众多歌剧、轻歌剧、音乐剧和不同音乐会中的出色表演，被媒体誉为：“让观众着迷、新闻价值巨大的艺术家”。

　　塞珂斯通曾在莫扎特的歌剧《唐璜》（Don Giovanni）中扮演安娜、在歌剧《女人心》（Cosi fan Tutte）中扮演菲德丽姬、在《费加罗的婚礼》（Le Nozze di Figaro）中扮演伯爵夫人、在《后宫诱逃》扮演康丝坦丝, 《魔笛》（Die Zauberflote）中饰演帕米娜和第一夫人、在威尔第的歌剧《茶花女》（La Traviata）中饰演薇奥列塔、在《福斯塔夫》（Falstaff）中饰演,爱丽丝福特，在普契尼的歌剧《波西米亚人》（La Boheme）饰演米米和穆赛塔，在多尼采蒂的歌剧《拉美摩尔的露西亚》（Lucia di Lammermoor）中扮演露西亚，在奥芬巴赫的轻歌剧《霍夫曼的故事》（Les Contes d’Hoffmann）中饰演安托妮亚，在古诺的歌剧《罗密欧与朱丽叶》（Romeo et Juliette）中饰演朱丽叶，在在比才的歌剧《卡门》（Carmen）中饰演卡门，都大获成功而成为美国著名的女高音歌唱家。而在世界轻歌剧舞台上广受好评的则是她在莱哈尔的轻歌剧《风流寡妇》中饰演的汉娜，以及在施特劳斯的轻歌剧《蝙蝠》中饰演的萝丝。

　　作为杰出的歌唱家，塞珂斯通应邀与新泽西歌剧院、德梅因新城剧院、纳奇兹音乐戏剧节、密苏里的斯普林菲尔德歌剧院、欧扎克的瓶山歌剧表演艺术节、宾夕法尼亚莎士比亚戏剧节、罗马歌剧节、新泽西通俗管弦乐团、大西洋音乐节管弦乐团、花园州管乐团等美国和欧洲众多的剧院、音乐节、音乐团体和歌剧公司进行了广泛的合作演出。

　　塞珂斯通在幼年时就经常收到各种音乐礼品，5岁时她就能随着录音机里播放的著名女高音朱莉•安德露丝（Julie Andrews）的演唱的《音乐之声》（Sound of Music0、《欢乐满人间》（Mary Poppins）的录音跟唱。孩提时，塞珂斯通就开始学习钢琴，但这一切都源于她热爱歌唱的原由。10多岁时，她开始学习歌唱并研究歌唱技术，她花了大量的时间兴致勃勃地学习了百老汇的《奥克拉荷马》（Oklahoma）、《安妮》（Annie）、《歌谣大典》（Grease）、《耶稣基督超级巨星》（Jesus Christ Superstar）等许多著名音乐剧。最后她在曼哈顿音乐学院获得了声乐与音乐表演的学士学位和硕士学位。

　　优美的容貌和火辣的身材，以及高学历的背景，让塞珂斯通赢得了新泽西小姐的称号、获得了以才智与泳装为展现主题的《双魅力大赛》的最高奖，并以普契尼的歌剧《托斯卡》中一曲“为艺术，为爱情”，在美国国家电视台入围1993’美国小姐的前十名。

　　Soprano Michele Sexton has been hailed in the press as “tremendous”, “an artist worth discovering” with her “magnificent”, “big, flexible voice and shining tone” and character portrayals that are “mesmerizing”, “stirring” and “affecting”. Michele’s is a passionate, life-long love of music and performing that has taken this versatile

　　performer to the stages of opera, operetta, concert, and musical theater.

　　Ms. Sexton’s repertoire of operatic roles includes Mozart’s Donna Anna in Don Giovanni, Fiodiligi in Cosi fan Tutte, Countess Almaviva in Le Nozze di Figaro, Konstanze in Entfuhrung aus dem Serail, Pamina and First Lady in Die Zauberflote, Verdi’s Violetta in La Traviata and Alice Ford in Falstaff, Mimi and Musetta in La Boheme, Lucia di Lammermoor, as well as Antonia in Les Contes d’Hoffmann, Juliette in Gounod’s Romeo et Juliette, and Micaela in Carmen. The world of operetta finds Michele at home in the roles of Hanna in The Merry Widow, and her critically acclaimed portrayal of Rosalinda in Die Fledermaus.

　　Ms. Sexton has performed extensively with opera companies, festivals, and musical groups throughout the United States and Europe including, Opera New Jersey, Des Moines Metro Opera, Natchez Festival of Music, Springfield Regional Opera in Missouri, The Shaker Mountain Performing Arts Festival, Opera in the Ozarks, and New Opera Festival di Roma. She has appeared as a soprano soloist with the New Jersey Pops Orchestra, Festival Orchestra of the Atlantic, and the Garden State Symphonic Band. In June2012, Ms. Sexton received critical praise for her portrayal of the Beggar Woman in “Sweeney Toddd” at the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival. Other recent engagements include an appearance at the Lincoln Center Library for the Performing Arts in a concert of Broadway favorites and a concert of operatic standards with the Boheme Opera Company of New Jersey, as well as “Pop’ra” concerts with entertainer Vincent Talerico.

　　Michele’s musical gifts were evident at a very early age. By the age of five she was hitting the high notes along with Julie Andrews to recordings of “Sound of Music” and “Mary Poppins”. As a child, Michele studied piano but always preferred singing and began studying voice in her teens. She spent much of her late childhood and young adulthood starring in musical theater, from “OKLAHOMA!” and “Annie” to “Grease” and “Jesus Christ Superstar”. She went on to receive a Bachelor and Master of Music Degree in Vocal Performance from the Manhattan School of Music, financing her education by winning the title of Miss New Jersey and taking top prizes as a double preliminary competition winner in talent and swimsuit. She went on to distinguish herself on national television as a Top Ten Finalist in the 1993 Miss America Pageant, singing “Vissi d’arte” from Tosca.