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Soprano Luvada Harrison has performed with New York City Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Opera Ebony, Florentine, Jacksonville, New York Verismo and Baltimore Opera Companies.  She received first prize in the Baltimore Symphony Young Artists Competition, Mary O’Hare Vocal Competition of Washington, D.C. and Opera Renaissance Guild of Brooklyn.  As winner of the Bel Canto Foundation of Chicago Competition, she spent six weeks in Busetto, Italy studying with world-renowned tenor Carlo Bergonzi.  Luvada was also a Semi-Finalist in The Luciano Pavarotti/Opera Philadelphia Vocal Competition.  Her operatic repertoire includes Serena and Clara in Porgy and Bess, Countess in Le Nozze to Figaro, Mrs. Johnson in Frederick Douglas, Fiordiligi in Cosi fan Tutte, Suor Angelica in Suor Angelica, Mimi in La Boheme, Rosalinda in Die Fledermaus, First and Second Lady in Magic Flute, Herzogin in Doktor Faust, Leonora in Il Trovatore and Maddelena in Andrea Chenier.  Miss Harrison made her Carnegie Hall debut with the Manhattan Philharmonic in the role of the Nurse in Tanayev’s Romeo and Juliet.  Orchestral and Oratorio repertoire include: Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony and Missa Solemnis, Honneger’s King David, Handel’s Messiah, Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Rossini’s Stabat Mater and The Brahms, Dvorak, Mozart and Verdi Requiems.  She recently made her Off-Broadway debut in Prelude and Liebestod by Tony Award Winner Terrence McNally and in 2000 was seen as Aida on HBO’s Sex and the City.

In January 1999 Ms Harrison appeared with the New York Choral Society as the soprano soloist in Rossini’s Stabat Mater at Lincoln Center.  After her success as Aida with the Ars Musica Chorale in November’98, Ms Harrison was engaged to sing the role with the Sioux City Symphony in April 1999. In 99-00, she appeared twice with the New Mexico Symphony: first as soloist in the Missa Solemnis and then as partner to tenor Francisco Casanova in an opera gala.