Biography
Soprano Tina Lovejoy, finalist in the National Opera Association's 2012 Vocal Competition/Artist Division, has most recently performed in concert with the Colorado Springs Philharmonic singing Puccini and Gershwin. In the past few seasons she has appeared as Pamina in Die Zauberflöte, Musetta in La Bohème, Frasquita in Carmen, Serpina in Pergolesi's La Serva Padrona and as soloist in Vivaldi's Gloria. With Utah Festival Opera she was seen as Peep Bo in The Mikado and performed works by Puccini and Aaron Copland in concert. Lovejoy created the female lead role in the World Premiere staged reading of Larry Delinger’s sweepingly melodic Talk To Me Like The Rain and Let Me Listen based on the play by Tennessee Williams. Lovejoy also appeared in over 35 performances in repertory as Madrigal Singer in Manon Lescaut, Rapunzel in Into the Woods, and Geraldine in Gypsy. Her other roles include Mimi (La Bohème), Nedda (I Pagliacci), Giorgetta (Il Tabarro), Liù (Turandot), Micaëla (Carmen), Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni), Fiordiligi (Così fan tutte), Hanna Glawari (Die Lustige Witwe), Erste Dame (Die Zauberflöte), Leischen (Coffee Cantata/Bach) and the soprano solo roles from Beethoven's Ninth Symphony and Händel's Messiah. Musical Theater performances include Marian Paroo in The Music Man and the title role of Rogers and Hammerstein's Cinderella. Lovejoy's film debut was as an opera singer in La Bella Figura, filmed while she was singing the role of Hanna Glawari with Operafestival di Roma. She has appeared in concert with the Timberline Orchestra and Denver Opera Company and was a finalist in Shreveport Opera's Mary Jacobs Smith 2011 Singer of the Year Competition, Finalist and 2nd place winner in the 2009 Michael Ballam Concorso Lirico Voice Competition and District Finalist in the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. Lovejoy was a vocal scholarship student at Boston University and The San Francisco Conservatory of Music.
Photograph by Molly Seeling
