Heather Dials

MySpace Layouts - myspace layouts American soprano Heather Dials began her professional career at the tender age of 12 as Flora in the Santa Fe Opera production of The Turn of the Screw. She was accepted at the Curtis Institute of Music at the Age of 17, the youngest voice student accepted to date since Anna Moffo. Ms. Dials made her Alice Tully Hall debut at the age of 21 while still a student at The Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia.She has performed principal roles with the Opera Company of Philadelphia, Santa Fe Opera, Skylight Opera Theatre, Savannah Symphony, San Francisco Symphony, The West Virginia Symphony and New Mexico Symphony Orchestra. In addition, she has performed several roles with San Francisco Opera including Gretel in Hansel and Gretel, Adina in L’Elisir d’Amore and Jemmy in Guillaum Tell.Ms. Dials performed Rosina in Il Barbiere di Siviglia for the San Francisco Opera’s Merola program National tour as well as Micaela in The European Opera Center’s European tour of Peter Brook’s La Tradgedie de Carmen.On the concert and opera stage she has sung under the baton of such conductors as; Edo de Warrt, Michael Tilson Thomas and Maurizio Barbacini.Ms. Dials has received acclaim for her portrayal of Operatic heroines including Countess Almaviva in Le Nozze di Figaro about which Opera News wrote; “Ms. Dials looked and sounded near-perfect.” As Anne Trulove in The Rake's Progress the Philadelphia Weekly wrote; “Ms. Dials was sublime in the slower, melancholy passages. Her last act lullaby is ravishing.” As Rosina in Il Barbiere di Siviglia the Chicago Tribune wrote “taking all the high options in Una voce poco fa, Dials delivered this tour de force with personal touches but without self-importance”.Ms. Dials has won numerous awards and competitions including The Metropolitan Opera National Council auditions and The Luciano Pavorotti International Competition. She was nominated for the prestigious Richard Tucker career grant and a recipient of the Sullivan Foundation Career grant. She has been heard in several live telecasts for The Opera Company of Philadelphia as Musetta in La Boheme and Anne Truelove in The Rake's Progress.Ms. Dials discography includes a recording of vocal music by American composers on the North/South label entitled Postcards.