ALINA TAMBORINI
Soprano Alina Tamborini has been praised by The New York Times as "unusually big-voiced and feisty," with New York Classical Review describing her voice as "dazzling with beauty and sensitivity." This season, she will be performing the role of Aline in The Sorcerer (Winter Opera St. Louis), Euridice in Orfeo ed Euridice (Libero Canto), and Jennie in Down in the Valley (Cambridge Chamber Ensemble). For her performance of Aline, Broadway World described Ms. Tamborini as a “pure, rich, lyrical soprano capable of a delicate lightness as well as great power. Her vibrato is one of the most perfect I’ve ever heard.”
Last season, Ms. Tamborini took the stage as Zerlina in Don Giovanni (Norwalk Symphony Orchestra), Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte (Bronx Opera), Adele in Die Fledermaus (Opera Magnifico), Claire Clairmont in the world premiere of Gemma Peacocke’s A Strange Power (Princeton Sound Kitchen), and Gloria in Handel’s Olinto pastore, Tebro fiume, Gloria, HWV 143 (La Grande Bande).
Ms. Tamborini marked her return to Lincoln Center in 2024 as Giulietta in I Capuleti e i Montecchi (Teatro Nuovo). In recent seasons, Ms. Tamborini performed as Lauretta in Gianni Schicchi, Sofia in Il signor Bruschino, and Blanche in The Dialogues of the Carmélites (Bronx Opera). She made her house debut with Bel Cantanti Opera as Adele in Die Fledermaus. She premiered Nirmali Fenn’s When Apathy Becomes Betrayal and has performed Mahler’s Fourth Symphony (Stony Brook Symphony Orchestra). In 2021, she brought live opera back to New York City’s stages as Berta in Il barbiere di Siviglia (Teatro Nuovo). She made her Lincoln Center debut in 2019 as Isoletta in La Straniera (Teatro Nuovo).
Notable engagements with Michigan State University Opera Theatre include: Despina in Così fan tutte, Romilda in Serse, Miss Lavish in A Room With a View, and Giannetta in L’elisir d’amore. Her operatic roles at Stony Brook include: Aminta in Il re Pastore, Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, Céphise in Pigmalion, and Adele in Die Fledermaus.
Ms. Tamborini holds a Master of Music from Stony Brook University and a Bachelor of Music from Michigan State University.