Thea Lobo, Mezzo-Soprano

Mezzo-soprano Thea Lobo, whose singing has been dubbed "excellent", "impeccable", "limpidly beautiful" and "Boston's best", has appeared under conductors Harry Christophers, Martin Pearlman and Helmut Rilling, and has been featured by the Handel & Haydn Society, Chorus pro Musica, Firebird Ensemble, Opera Boston Underground, EuropŠisches Musikfest Stuttgart and Emmanuel Music, which named Ms. Lobo Lorraine Hunt Lieberson Fellow for the 2009-10 season. A proponent of new music, she has worked with composers Steve Reich, Howard Frazin, Fred Lerdahl and Christian Wolff, among many others, performing their music. In 2009 Ms. Lobo toured Japan performing Bach's St. Matthew Passion under the direction of Joshua Rifkin. She has performed the roles of Orgando in Handel's Amadigi with Boston Baroque, Third Lady in The Magic Flute with the Boston University Opera Institute, L'Enfant in L'Enfant et les Sortilèges with MetroWest Opera, and covered the narrator role Xiao Qing for the world premiere of Zhou Long's Madame White Snake with Opera Boston. In 2010, Ms. Lobo was a prize winner at the Bach Vocal Competition for American Singers. During the 2010-11 season, her engagements include Nicholas Vines's Loose, Wet, Perforated with Guerilla Opera, and Bach's B-minor Mass with both Brookline Chorus and Arcadia Players.