Juanita Lascarro
soprano
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During the 2023/24 season Juanita Lascarro, a valued member of the ensemble at Oper Frankfurt for many years, can be heard singing roles including Marei and the Princess of Granada in new productions of Zemlinsky's Der Traumgörge / George the Dreamer and Offenbach's The Bandits. Last season she enjoyed great success as Iseut, the fair, and Bogus Angèle in new productions of Frank Martin's Le vin herbé and Kurt Weill's The Tsar wants his Photograph Taken and Graumann's Wife in our wonderful production of Schreker's Der ferne Klang / The Elusive Sound. In recent seasons she sang Brigitta (role debut) in Tchaikovsky's Iolanta, repeated her wonderful portrayal of Hanna Glawari in Die lustige Witwe / The Merry Widow, sang The Friend and Calypso / Penelope in new productions of Schönberg's Von heute auf Morgen / From Today till Tomorrow and Dallapiccola's Ulisse. She also enjoyed great success here in the title role of Martinů's Julietta (CD - OehmsClassics), a Křenek triple bill and in a new production of Neuwirth's Lost Highway. She is recently singing Hanna Glawari at the Staatstheater in Karlsruhe, can be heard at Theater Heidelberg and sings Giulietta in The Tales of Hoffmann at Theater Freiburg. Other roles for the company have included Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte and Marchesa Matilda Spina in the first ever performances in Frankfurt of Trojahn's Enrico. This soprano, who was born in Columbia, sang many important roles for the first time in Frankfurt, including the title role in Lucia di Lammermoor, Micaëla (Carmen) and Ninetta (Die diebische Elster / The Thieving Magpie). Other roles in recent seasons have included the soprano in staged performances of the Messiah, the title roles in Manon, Lulu, Agrippina, and Daphne, Violetta (La Traviata), Donna Clara (Zemlinsky's Der Zwerg / The Dwarf, CD - OehmsClassics), Agilea (Handel's Teseo), Ilia (Idomeneo), Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni) and Pamina (Die Zauberflöte). Guest engagements have taken her to the Berlin, Munich and Vienna state operas, Theater Freiburg, Zürich Opera, the Theater an der Wien, Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, Opéra National de Paris, the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London, Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels, the Teatro Real in Madrid, Palma di Mallorca and Bogotá. She also sang Strauss’ Daphne under Christian Thielemann at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Ingo Metzmacher at the Nationale Opera and Edo de Waart, in concert, in the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. An extensive discography documents her broad and varied repertoire.
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