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Danielle Rickí Dean
Languages (fluent):
English
Come scoglio orchestra
Ebben! Ne andrò lontana
A native of Baltimore (Maryland, U.S.A) Danielle Ricki Dean began her professional singing career at the age of 18 as a soloist with the Richmond Symphony Orchestra (Virginia, USA) and has since appeared on stages in the U.S, Europe, UK and Asia including the Berliner Philharmonie, Lincoln Center, Wigmore Hall, Kennedy Center and the Berliner Dom.
She made her operatic debut in 2009 singing the role of "Jenny Hildebrand" in Street Scene with George Mason University Opera and concurrently made her international debut in Seoul, South Korea singing "Miss Silverpeal" (The Impresario) and "Suor Dolcina"(Suor Angelica) with the International Summer Music Institute at EWHA Womans University.
Most recently, Ms. Dean sang “Giuseppe” in a gender-bending production of “La Traviata” with Summer Garden Opera in Virginia and a performance of excerpts from the role of Minnijean Brown at the world premiere of “The Little Rock Nine” by 2022 Kennedy Center Honoree Composer Tania Leon with the MacDowell Music Colony in New York.
Other operatic credits include singing the "The Queen of the Night" with the Metropolitan Opera Guild in the company’s first ever touring production of “The Magic Flute”; the title role in scenes from “Rodelina” and “Norina” in Don Pasquale with Mannes Opera Studio; “Musetta” (La Boheme) and “Lucy” (The Telephone) with the George Mason Opera Theater and “Gianetta” (L’elisir d’amore) with the Bethesda Summer Music Festival.
A 2022 and 2023 Certified Artist (Classical Singer Magazine) as a competitor, Ms. Dean has appeared and placed in several prestigious competitions including the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions (North Carolina East Region), the Licia Albanese-Puccini Competition, Opera Ebony's Benjamin Matthews Competition and is a First prize winner of The James Bland Music Competition, two-time winner of the National Association of Teachers of Singing Competition (Mid-Atlantic Region, USA) and a two-time Honoree of the FMMC Sue Goetz-Ross Memorial Voice Competition.
In addition to her operatic career, Ms. Dean has enjoyed success in both musical theater and gospel music as a touring artist with Donna Brown and the Golden Gospel Pearls in Berlin, Germany where she made her first live television appearance on the ZDF MorgenMagazin Show in 2017. She has also been featured in Vogue.com, Elle Magazine, Yahoo!News, the Huffington Post and The New York Times for her appearances as a singer in New York City Fashion Week (Pyer Moss). She is a student of internationally-acclaimed Soprano Carol Vaness and a former student of Beth Roberts Sebek, Patricia Miller and the late Ruth Falcon.
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