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Russell’s musical roots in
Asheville are fairly reflective of any number of talented
youth and the opportunities afforded in church and school –
church choirs, middle school musicals, high school chorus –
up to a point. That point arrived when a teacher suggested
that she attend a production of La Traviata during
one of her summers.
She attended the opening
performance, went back on four other nights and each time
wept throughout, so overwhelmed was she by the music and the
production. Opera, after that, was her passion.
Her recent performances include
Daisy Buchanan in John Harbison’s The Great Gatsby and
Charlene in Christopher Weiss’s Service Provider during her
second season as a young artist at Seagle Music Colony. She
has also appeared, as Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni, the
title role in Savitri, and Elaine in Later the Same Evening
with Northwestern University Opera Theater; Rosalinde in Die
Fledermaus with Boston University Tanglewood Institute; and
Pamina in Die Zauberflöte with Seagle Music Colony and
Furman University.
After La Boheme,
she will be heading to Chicago and making her company debut
in June with Lyric Opera Unlimited in the Chicago premiere
of Blue.
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