Monika Cosson-Sheppard, mezzo-soprano, has performed the operatic roles of Fiordiligi in Cosi Fan Tutte and Donna Anna in Don Giovanni, both at Loyola University; the High Priestess in Aida and Cronie in The Ballad of Baby Doe with New Orleans Opera; and Flora in La Traviata with Jefferson Parish Performing Arts Society. Featured artist and concert appearances include; Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 at the Superior Music Festival in Marquette, Michigan; the Brahm's German Requiem at the University of Southern Mississippi; Mendelssohn's Elijah with the Symphony Chorus of New Orleans; Kodaly's Te Deum conducted by Victor Yampolsky with the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra on their Classics Series; Faure' Requiem and Rutter Requiem with Loyola University; Mozart Requiem with Okaloosa-Walton Community Orchestra; and Britten's Ceremony of Carols with Pensacola Chorale Society and Santa Fe Desert Chorale. Her Santa Fe concert appearances include mezzo soloist in Verdi's Requiem with Santa Fe Community Orchestra; Ralph Vaughan William's Dona Nobis Pacem with Sangre De Cristo Chorale; Felix Mendelssohn's Psalm XLII (As The Hart Pants) and Hear My Prayer both with Canticum Novum. Upcoming engagements include Schubert's Mass in E flat with Sangre de Cristo Chorale; Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 with Santa Fe Community Orchestra; Lisa in Nino Rota's I Due Timidi with Santa Fe Opera; La Vergine Degli Angeli from Verdi's La Forza Del Destino with The Santa Fe Men's Camerata and public recitals in the Spring of 2009 at Church of the Holy Faith in Santa Fe and Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado. A student of Regina Sarfaty Rickless, Ms. Cosson-Sheppard resides in Santa Fe where she teaches voice. ..
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