Stephanie Sundine   STAGE DIRECTOR, DRAMATIC COACH & ACTING TEACHER

Soprano Resume

Stephanie Sundine
Photographer - Kassandra Devlin

Stephanie Sundine's career as a soprano took her to three continents and many of the world's leading opera houses, including the Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera, Santa Fe Opera, New York City Opera, Canadian Opera Company, Opéra de Paris, Radio France, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Oper Frankfurt, Oper Leipzig, and Welsh National Opera in major roles in new productions with some of opera's most prominent directors and conductors.

Her repertoire as a singer extended from Mozart and Beethoven through Verdi, Puccini, Wagner, Strauss, Dvorák and Janácek. She performed several contemporary operas in national and international premieres. Her portrayal of Emilia Marty in Janácek's The Makropulos Case is commercially available.

She received a National Opera Institute Grant and a William Mattheus Sullivan Grant.

Soprano Roles
Beethoven Fidelio Leonora
Ninth Symphony Soprano Soloist
Boito Mefistofele Margherita/Elena
Britten The Turn of the Screw Miss Jessel
Busoni Doktor Faust Duchess of Parma/Helen of Troy
Catalani La Wally La Wally
Dvorák Rusalka Foreign Princess
Giordano Andrea Chenier Maddalena
Henze Das Verratene Meer Fusako Kuroda
Janácek Katya Kabanova Katya Kabanova
The Makropulos Case Emilia Marty
Korngold Die Tote Stadt Marietta
Mascagni Cavalleria rusticana Santuzza
Matthus Judith Judith
Menotti The Consul Magda Sorel
Mozart Don Giovanni Donna Elvira
Le nozze di Figaro Contessa
Offenbach Les contes d'Hoffmann Giulietta
Pasatieri The Seagull Madame Arkadina
Washington Square Mrs. Montgomery
Ponchielli La Gioconda La Gioconda
Poulenc Dialogues des Carmelites Madame Lidoine
Prokofiev Maddalena Maddalena
Puccini La bohème Musetta
La fanciulla del West Minnie
Il tabarro Giorgetta
Tosca Tosca
Salinen The King Goes Forth To France The Nice Caroline
R. Strauss Ariadne auf Naxos Ariadne
Elektra Chrysothemis
Salome Salome
Tchaikovsky Eugene Onegin Tatiana
Verdi Aida Aida
Un ballo in maschera Amelia
Otello Desdemona
Requiem Soprano Soloist
Wagner Lohengrin Elsa
Tristan und Isolde Isolde
Opera Companies and Orchestras
Anchorage Civic Opera Opera Theater of Rochester
Atlanta Civic Opera Opera Theater of St. Louis
Artpark Oper der Stadt Gelsenkirchen
Canadian Opera Company Oper der Stadt Köln
Des Moines Metro Opera Oper Frankfurt
Deutsche Oper Berlin Oper Leipzig
Dresden Staatsoper Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra
Edmonton Opera Palm Beach Opera
Greater Miami Opera Pittsburgh Opera
Hawaii Opera Theatre Queens Symphony
Hudson Valley Philharmonic Radio France
Kentucky Opera San Antonio Symphony Opera
Knoxville Opera Company San Diego Opera
Lyric Opera of Queensland San Francisco Opera
Metropolitan Opera Santa Fe Opera
Michigan Opera Theatre Sarasota Opera
Minnesota Opera Savannah Symphony
New York City Opera Shreveport Symphony
Northeastern Pennsylvania Philharmonic Syracuse Symphony
Norwegian National Opera Tri-City Symphony
Omaha Symphony Vancouver Opera
Opéra de Nantes Welsh National Opera
Opéra de Nice West Michigan Opera
Opéra de Paris  
Prominent Conductors and Directors with whom Ms. Sundine Worked as a Singer
Conductors Directors
Theo Alcantara David Alden
Spiros Argiris Jean-Claude Auvray
Richard Armstrong Tito Capobianco
Christian Badea Robert Carsen
James Conlon Frank Corsaro
Arthur Fagan Andre Engel
Anton Guadagno Götz Friedrich
Christopher Keene Michael Hampe
Berislav Klobucar Alfred Kirchner
Jirí Kout Nikolaus Lehnhof
Sir Charles Mackerras Lotfi Mansouri
George Manahan Nicholas Muni
John Mauceri David Pountney
Günther Neuhold
Gabor Ötvös
Nello Santi
Markus Stenz
Marc Soustrot
Klaus Weise
Hugh Wolff

Video Recording

Emilia Marty - The Makropulos Case - Janácek
Canadian Opera Company - VAI Label

Career Grants

William Mattheus Sullivan Grant
National Opera Institute Grant

Education

Bachelor of Science in Music Education (highest honors)
University of Illinois, Urbana