Sharin Apostolou - Calisto/L'Eternita

Soprano

New Jersey native Sharin Apostolou recently completed her second season at Central City Opera as a member of the Bonfils-Stanton Artist Training Program, covering Annina in The Saint of Bleecker Street, performing Noémie in the youth performance of Cendrillon, and Isabelle/Madeline in The Face on the Barroom Floor. This past spring, she performed Carolina in Torroba’s Luisa Fernanda with the Tulsa Opera Studio. She made her European Operatic debut with the International Chamber Ensemble as Serpina in Pergolesi's La serva padrona as part of the Operafestival di Roma.

Last year, in her debut season with Portland Opera, Apostolou sang Frasquita in Carmen, Clorinda in Cinderella, covered the title role in Rodelinda, sang Miss Wordsworth in Albert Herring, and performed the High Priestess in Aida. Apostolou also sang Obradors’ Canciones clásicas españolas in the Portland Opera Studio Artists’ Spring Recital.

Other roles include Blanche de la Force in Dia-logues des Carmélites, Musetta in La Bohème, Virtù and Valletto in L'incoronazione di Poppea, Zemire in Spohr’s Zemire und Azor, Nora in Vaughn Williams’ Riders to the Sea, and Vera in Hoiby’s A Month in the Country. Equally at home in Musical Theater, notable roles include The Witch and Cinderella in Into the Woods, Sarah Brown in Guys and Dolls, and Sally Bowls in Cabaret, and Phoebe in Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Yeoman of the Guard.

On the concert stage, Ms. Apostolou performed the role of First Fairy in the Oregon Symphony’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Miss Silverpeal in Der Schauspieldirektor with Port-land Chamber Orchestra, and Miss Silverpeal in The Impresario with Walla Walla Symphony. She also sang in The Pittsburgh Ballet Theater’s A Midsummer’s Night Dream and in the Fiddlesticks outreach concerts with the Pittsburgh Symphony. She performed in the premiers of The Lost Childhood with American Opera Projects, Homeric Hymns The Lyric Theater of New York, and most recently the US premier of Johan Christian Bach’s Vaux Hall Songs with the New England Baroque Soloists in Boston, MA. Other concert works include the soprano soloist in the Pergolesi Stabat Mater, Handel’s Messiah, Honegger’s Le Roi David, Mozart Requiem, and the Vivaldi Gloria.

An avid recitalist, Ms. Apostolou has given recitals throughout Europe, the US, and the Caribbean and studied under Warren Jones, Catherine Malfitano, Martin Katz, and Marilyn Horne.

Ms. Apostolou holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Carnegie Mellon University and a Master of Music from the Manhattan School of Music.