Venezuelan mezzo-soprano, Myrna
Moreno studied at the London Royal College of Music and the Vienna Academy.
She has participated in the opera festivals of Bad-Ischl (Austria), Wexford
(Ireland), Glyndebourne and Camden (England). In oratorio and recital work,
she has performed at Wigmore Hall, St. John’s Smith Square, Barbican Centre.
Royal Albert Hall and Bolívar Hall in London, Fort-Kerk in Willemstad, Curaçao,
as well as in the most important concert halls of Venezuela and other Latin
American countries. Myrna has appeared as principal with the Glyndebourne
Festival Company, Glyndebourne Touring Company; Northern Ireland Opera Trust
and Wexford Festival; Opera West in Scotland, Chapel le Royale and International
Congrescentrum of Ghent, the Stadsshoburg of Amsterdam with the Dutch Opera
Forum, Circolo delia Lirica di Padova, Victoria State Opera Company in Australia,
Solís Theatre in Uruguay and Teresa Carreño Theatre and Metropolitan Opera
in Caracas.
An outstandingly versatile performer, Myrna’s repertoire includes the
operatic roles of Zerlina in Don Giovanni, Angelina in La
Cenerentola, Malika in Lakme; Adalgisa in Norma; Melanto
in II Ritorno, D’ Ulisse in Patria, Rosina in II Barbiere
di Siviglia, The Secretary in The Consul, The Old Lady in
Lord Byron’s Love Letters; Edwige in Rodelinda; Suzuki in
Madame Butterfly; Rosina in La Vera Constanza, Bizet’s Carmen,
Santuzza in Cavalleria Rusticana and more recently, The Sorceress
in Dido and Aeneas, Madame Flora in The Medium and Ana in
The Seven Deadly Sins.
Her orchestral appearances include the New Philharmonic Orchestra, English
Festival Orchestra, Oxford Chamber Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
in Great Britain; the Forum Filharmonisch Orkest in Holland, the Chapel
Ie Royale in Belgium; the Australian Philharmonic Orchestra in Melbourne;
the New York Geneseo Chamber Singers in New York; and the Municipal Symphony
Orchestra, National Philharmonic Orchestra, Venezuelan Symphony Orchestra
and Simón Bolívar Orchestra in Caracas.
Some of the international conductors with whom Ms. Moreno has worked
include: Jacques Delacote, Raymond Leppard, Michelangelo Veltri, Alberto
Peyretti, Philippe Herreweghe, Simon Halsey, Jane Glover, Robert Isgro,
Eduardo Browne, David Machado and with Venezuelan conductors: Eduardo
Rahn, Eduardo Marturet, José Antonio Abreu, Alfredo Rugeles, Pablo
Castellanos, Rodolfo Saglimbeni and Carlos Riazuelo.
Myrna Moreno is an accomplished recitalist and oratorio singer. She has
performed Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, Strawinsky’s Oedipus Rex,
Mozart’s Requiem, Vivaldi’s Gloria, Pergolesi’s Stabat
Mater, Rossini’s Stabat Mater and Verdi’s Requiem.
Myrna Moreno
