Inna Dukach
Soprano
Soprano Inna Dukach returned to New York City Opera last fall singing a highly acclaimed Mimì in La Bohème, followed immediately by a gala concert in Nice, France. Since then, she has performed Donna Anna in Don Giovanni with Orlando Opera and with Opera Carolina, Strauss' Vier Letzte Lieder with Theater Pforzheim in Germany, a concert of Gluck arias with Opera de Oviedo in Spain, Violetta in La Traviata with Zagreb Opera in Croatia, and a "Voices of Eastern Europe" concert with Eugene Symphony. Upcoming engagements include Donna Anna with Opera Ireland, Tatiana in Eugene Onegin with Opèra Lyra Ottawa, Liù in Turandot with the Savonlinna Opera Festival in 2009, and she will make her Covent Garden debut as Musetta in La Bohème in late 2009/2010.
Engagements during the 2006-07 season included a New York City Opera debut singing Mimì in La Bohème, a debut with San Diego Opera as Xenia in Boris Godunov, La Bohème with Lake George Opera, Wall to Wall Opera with New York City Opera at Symphony space (broadcast on WQXR), Songs of Yiddish Poetry with the Brooklyn Philharmonic and an all Chopin recital with Oxana Yablonskaya and The Chopin Society of New York at Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall.
Engagements during the 2005-06 season included Mimì in La Bohème with Sarasota Opera, Dicapo Opera Theatre and National Lyric Opera, and Caroline Gaines in Margaret Garner with Opera Carolina, Rachmaninov's The Bells with Dicapo Opera Theatre, and Valencienne in The Merry Widow with Opera Memphis.
During the 2003-04 season, Ms. Dukach made her Alice Tully Hall debut with the American Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Leon Botstein as Aljeja in Janáček's From the House of the Dead, and her Carnegie Hall debut in a program of Rutter's Magnificat and Vaughan Williams' Dona Nobis Pacem. Additional engagements during the 2003-04 season included Marguérite in Faust with Dicapo Opera Theatre; Liù in Turandot with Natchez Opera; Dorotea in Conte's Don Chisciotte with the Caramoor Festival; and a return to Opera North as Helena in A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Other recent engagements have included Janáček's The Diary of One Who Vanished with the Bard Music Festival; the Bride in Martinu's Hlas Lesa with Gotham Chamber Opera (televised on Classic Arts Showcase); Echo in Ariadne auf Naxos with Lake George Opera; Pamina in Die Zauberflöte; Lauretta in Gianni Schicchi; Micaëla in Carmen; and Donna Anna in Don Giovanni.
Concert highlights have included the Countess in Le Nozze di Figaro, the Fauré Requiem, and Rachmaninov's Vocalise with the One World Symphony; the Verdi Requiem with the Brooklyn Philharmonic; the Brahms Requiem with the Greenwich Choral Society; the Mozart Requiem with the Saratoga Choral Festival; Beethoven's Ninth Symphony with the Smith College Orchestra at Carnegie Hall; Barber's Knoxville: Summer Of 1915 with Bay Shore Lyric Opera; a featured appearance as guest artist with the Chopin Music Festival at the Polish Embassy in New York City; and Songs on Pushkin's Poetry with the Trinity Noontime Concert Series in New York City.
Inna Dukach was a winner of the 2005 Liederkranz Competition, a winner of the 2004 Dutka Arts Foundation Competition, and a New England regional finalist of the 2003 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. Ms. Dukach was a member of the Opera North Young Artist Program in 2002, and an apprentice artist with Lake George Opera in 2001. She received her Master's Degree in Vocal Performance from Mannes College of Music, and her Bachelor's Degree from Smith College.