Tamara Gura
mezzo-soprano
© Uwe Arens
The American mezzo-soprano Tamara Gura, a fixed feature on the international opera and concert circuit, recently sang roles including Carmen, Angelina (La Cenerentola) at the Gärtnerplatz Theater in Munich (dir: Brigitte Fassbaender), Isabella (L’Italiana in Algeri), Orfeo (Orfeo ed Euridice), Sesto (Giulio Cesare), Maddalena (Rigoletto) and Orlovsky (Die Fledermaus) at many leading opera houses and festivals around the world, including Zürich Opera, the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, the Hamburg State Opera, Karlsruhe Handel Festival, English National Opera, the Nederlandse Opera Amsterdam, Teatro dell'Opera di Roma and New National Theatre in Tokyo. Tamara Gura studied in the USA before joining the opera studios in Zürich and Hamburg. She won the Metropolitan Opera National Council Award and a Semans Art Fund Grant, a scholarship from Académie Européenne de musique Aix-en-Provence and a prize from Salzburg’s Theater Friends for her interpretation in Ariodante, for which she was nominated for Best Female Singer of the Year in Opernwelt magazine. She is appearing at Oper Frankfurt for the first time singing Hermia, a role she has sung in London, Rome and Tokyo, in this new production of Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.