{"id":35374,"date":"2024-09-03T05:00:19","date_gmt":"2024-09-03T09:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/concoursmontreal.ca\/?post_type=cmim-jury&p=35374"},"modified":"2025-09-18T12:32:30","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T16:32:30","slug":"harolyn-blackwell","status":"publish","type":"cmim-jury","link":"https:\/\/concoursmontreal.ca\/en\/jury\/harolyn-blackwell\/","title":{"rendered":"Harolyn Blackwell"},"content":{"rendered":"

VOICE 2025<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Soprano Harolyn Blackwell is rec<\/span>ognized for her expressive and exuberant performances, with a career that has spanned opera, concert, and recital stages around the world. Following college, the Washington, D.C., native began her career on Broadway in Leonard Bernstein\u2019s West Side Story<\/i>. Shortly afterwards, she was selected as a finalist for the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, and her career path changed from musical theatre to opera. Since then, she has performed with many of the major national and international opera companies, and at festivals around the world, including Lyric Opera of Chicago, Glyndebourne Festival, Teatro Colon de Buenos Aires, Seattle Opera, Opera de Nice, Miami Opera, Canadian Opera Company, Aix-en-Provence Festival, Opera Orchestra of New York and New York\u2019s Mostly Mozart Festival. She has appeared in several productions at the Metropolitan Opera, including Un Ballo in Maschera, Le Nozze di Figaro, Manon, Die Fledermaus, Werther<\/i> and La Fille du R\u00e9giment.<\/i> Ms. Blackwell starred as Cunegonde in the Broadway revival of Candide<\/i>. An accomplished recitalist, she has performed in several acclaimed concert series, including London\u2019s Wigmore Hall, Carnegie Hall\u2019s Weill Recital Hall, The Morgan Library, The Library of Congress, The San Francisco Performances Series at the Herbst Hall, The Kennedy Center’s Fortas Chamber Series, The Vocal Arts Society of Washington, and The Ambassador Foundation Performing Arts Series in Los Angeles. She has also appeared in a number of nationally televised concerts such as The Grammy Awards, The Kennedy Center Honors, The Memorial Day and Fourth of July Concerts on PBS, Christmas in Washington, and The PBS Live From The White House, to name a few. Ms. Blackwell is the recipient of numerous awards and honors, one of which provided her with the opportunity to study in Italy with Renata Tebaldi and Carlo Bergonzi. Most recently, she was the recipient of The National Opera Association\u2019s \u201cLift Every Voice\u201d Legacy Award.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Harolyn Blackwell is a member of the voice faculty at Manhattan School of Music, NYU Steinhardt and Barnard\/Columbia University. Previously, she was a member of the voice faculty at The Peabody Conservatory of Music at The Johns Hopkins University.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The presence of Harolyn Blackwell<\/strong> in Montreal is generously sponsored by Marie-Carole Pinard and Marc Vanasse<\/span><\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Voice 2025 jury is housed at the Ritz-Carlton \u2013 Montr\u00e9al<\/p>\n

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