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      My dear friend, Marcus Nance!
      Maestro Mollicone!
      Maestro & Mrs. Mollicone
      After Beatitude Mass concert with dear friend Mrs Holmquist!
      After concert at Cima Collina Winery!
      Rancho Cielo (http://www.ranchocieloyc.org/)
      With fabulous composer, Rick Yramategui!
      Going to soundcheck for SF Opera's Opera at the Ballpark - Oracle Arena!
      Excited!!
      With SF Opera General Director, Matthew Shilvock! after singing the National Anthem at Opera at the Ballpark!
    • News & Articles

      Longmont Symphony Orchestra

      American Nostalgia:

      Barber - Knoxville: Summer of 1915

      featuring soprano Leberta Lorál
      and 

      Dvorak's Symphony #9
      "From the New World" 

      November 13, 2021
      7:30pm

      Vance Brand Civic Auditorium
      600 E. Mountain View Avenue

      Longmont, CO. 80504

       

      https://sharpsandflatirons.com/2021/11/12/longmont-symphony-embraces-nostalgia-in-saturdays-concert/

       

       

      Radio / Programs

       

      Announcing the Winner of KDFC’s Star Spangled Sing-Off!

      Posted by KDFC Staff · 9/17/2019 12:00:20 PM


      Congratulations to Leberta Lorál! She’s the winner of KDFC’s 2019 Star Spangled Sing-Off! She’ll perform the National Anthem live from the pitcher’s mound at Oracle Park at Opera at the Ballpark for the San Francisco Opera’s free simulcast of Gounod’s Romeo and Juliet on Saturday, September 21st, 7:30pm.

       

       

      "The Mask in the Mirror, a chamber opera by Richard Thompson, chronicles Dunbar's (Paul Laurence Dunbar) rocky relationship with writer Alice Ruth Moore. Occasionally, we get a dose of something jazzier...in which the charming Joplinesque rag turns into a very catchy trio number for Humes, Leberta Lorál and Roland Mills, who sound terrific together".

       

      Joshua Rosenblaum

      Opera News, Critics Choice

      July 2019

       

       

      “This is a true story” begins the narrator, and instantly one’s mind goes to Britten’s The Turn of the Screw: “It is a curious story” says that narrator. Both operas explore darker elements of society, and here Thompson uses a wide variety of means, from gentle, nostalgic dances to instrumental interjections that seem to speak volumes. There really is the impression that every note is so carefully considered. Joining Hughes’s powerful assumption of Paul is the strong Alice of Angela L. Owens (herself nicely complemented in act I scene 4 by the Victoria of Leberta Lorál."
       
      Fanfare Magazine Archive
      Issue 42:6
      July/August 2019

      "I was so pleased to work with LeBerta Lorál in the performance of my piece on August 19, 2018. She has a phenomenal voice, was a pleasure to work with, and sung with power and expressiveness. Lorál filled the hall with a glorious sound and brought the crowd to their feet for a well-earned S.O. I am looking forward to working with her again!"

       

      Rick Yramategui, composer

      August 2019

      "Ovens’ song cycle brought forward local treasure Leberta Lorál (pictured with the composer) for Yours and Mine, three song settings of sensually provocative poems by Alice Fulton. Ovens, a Walla Walla native who retired from the faculty of Muhlenberg College in Pennsylvania a year ago, and a marimba player of intense harmonic instincts, pushed Lorál through some awkward voice leading that stretched her range and, as he confessed enthusiastically, made his work easy."

       

      Scott MacClelland

      PerformingArtsMontereyBay.com

      May 2019

      "I have been remiss in not attending the Monterey County Composers Forum concerts over the many years since Steve Ettinger founded the group. They have preferred the Hidden Valley theater as their venue and on Sunday afternoon attracted a near sold-out house of fans, including newcomers like me...Yramategui’s own Look at the Birds of the Air, with verses from Matthew 6, not only contained memorable writing for both voice and piano, but with operatic soprano Leberta Lorál, brought the audience to its feet!"

       

      Scott MacClelland

      PerformingArtsMontereyBay.com

      August 2018

      'Soprano, Leberta Lorál displayed great virtuosity...her voice leapt through high passages with ease, sometimes loud enough to fill the church, but also sometimes so quiet that you found yourself on the edge of your seat in anticipation. It was a technically impressive, but also emotionally intense performance that brought many audience members to their feet when it was finished."

       

      Monica Mendoza,

      PerformingArtsMontereyBay.com

      May 2018

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      November 2021

      POSTPONED - Covid19

      11/21

      "A Time For Love"

      Cinnabar Theater

      https://cinnabartheater.org/show/concert-with-the-tammy-hall-quartet/

      Petaluma, CA

       

      11/18

      "Museum of the Moon"

      Exploratorium

      https://www.exploratorium.edu/exhibits/glow/museum-of-the-moon

      San Francisco, CA

       

      11/13

      Longmont Symphony

      Knoxville: Summer of 1915 (Barber)

      https://longmontsymphony.org/concert-schedule/

       

      September 2021

      09/17 - 19

      Flower Piano

      https://www.sfbg.org/flowerpiano

       

      POSTPONED - Covid19

      09/19

      "A Time For Love"

      Cinnabar Theater

      https://cinnabartheater.org/show/concert-with-the-tammy-hall-quartet/

      Petaluma, CA

       

      POSTPONED - Covid19

      9/15

      Metropolitan Club

      San Francisco, CA

       

      May 2021

      05/09

      Hear | Together

      Crowden Music Center

      https://www.crowden.org/events/hear-together/

      Berkeley, CA

       

      February 2021

      02/27

      Musical Soulmates: Celebrating Collaboration

      "Simply Love"

      https://www.eventbrite.com/e/musical-soulmates-simply-love-tickets-139131932355?aff=ebdssbonlinesearch&fbclid=IwAR0mcg5btbzc-ejEuK707nymOd3suOG20pHwyVzpr1w1Jpa6gBxx1efqA0A#

      Santa Cruz, CA

       

      December 2020

      12/12

      Musical Soulmates: Celebrating Collaboration

      "Love In All Seasons" part of "Sustenance Thru Song - The Love Series"

      https://www.eventbrite.com/e/musical-soulmates-love-in-all-seasons-tickets-118692254729?aff=efbneb

       

      July 2020

      POSTPONED - Covid19

      "Sustenance Thru Song - The Love Series"

      Carmel Foundation

      http://www.carmelfoundation.org/

      Carmel, CA

       

      March 2020

      POSTPONED - Covid19

      OperaArts

      operaartspalmsprings.org

      Palm Springs, CA

       

      February 2020

      2/14

      "Sustenance Thru Song - The Love Series"

      Private Salon Concert

      Pebble Beach, CA

       

      2/03

      "Sustenance Thru Song - The Love Series"

      Carmel Women's Club

      Carmel, CA

       

      December 2019

      12/14

      Holiday Gala

      Hidden Valley Music Seminars

      Carmel Valley, CA

       

      12/10

      Holiday Concert

      Carmel Valley Community Chapel

      Carmel Valley, CA

       

      November 2019

      Holiday Gala - Boys & Girls Club of Monterey County

      The Club at Pasadera

      Monterey, CA

       

      September 2019

      Vocal Master Class

      California State University at Monterey Bay

      Seaside, CA

       

      Opera at the Ballpark

      National Anthem

      Oracle Arena

      San Francisco, CA

       

      May 2019

      Three Love Songs on Poems of Alice Fulton for soprano and vibraphone - Douglas Ovens

      Monterey County Composers Forum at Hidden Valley Music Seminars

      Carmel Valley, CA

       

      April 2019

      Vocal Master Class

      California State University at Monterey Bay

      Seaside, CA

       

      March 2019

      Dona nobis pacem - Vaughan Williams

      The Camerata Singers of Monterey County

      Monterey & Salinas, CA

       

    • Biography

      “She has a phenomenal voice, was a pleasure to work with and sang with power and expressiveness.” Composer Rick Yramategui

       

      Leberta Lorál possesses a clarion voice that has been described as both Mezzo and Soprano (Zwishenfach), as well as artistry that are both technically impressive and emotionally intense. The 2020-2021 season included, and still includes a lot of therapeutic Covid-coping activities like baking, enjoyed by many friends and neighbors. In November 2021, she will sing Barber's Knoxville: Summer of 1915 with the Longmont Symphony in Colorado. In early 2021, Leberta was honored to sing with others on Zoom in the Presidential Inauguration post-celebration with pop great Demi Lovato. She also traveled to Los Angeles where she performed compositions by Duke Ellington in a celebration of Black History Month at Forest Lawn. The offering of songs composed by Florence Price, HT Burleigh, Jeremiah Evans and Antonin Dvorak in Musical Soulmates, produced by pianist Kate Alm, closed the first quarter of 2021. Spring of 2021 to the present blossoms with new collaborations with pianist/accompanist/composer Tammy L. Hall, including performances for the Ross McKee Foundation, Hall’s production, A Time for Love at the Cinnabar Theater in Petaluma, To Nina Simone, With Love in the Flower Piano series at the Botanical Gardens San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park in September and at the Exploratorium in San Francisco for the opening of Museum of the Moon exhibit.

       

      In 2019, Leberta won KDFC’s Star Spangled Sing-Off, where she lit up San Francisco’s Oracle Arena, singing the National Anthem live from the pitcher’s mound for Opera at the Ballpark - San Francisco’s free simulcast of Gounod’s Romeo and Juliet. Further highlights included collaborations with Douglas Ovens, performing his composition Three Love Songs, for soprano and vibraphone, based on the poems of Alice Fulton. She also collaborated with pianist/accompanist Pauline Troia in her first independent project: Sustenance Through Song, based upon the ancient Greek concept of eight (8) types of love. Performances with the Camerata Singers of Monterey County, featuring Ralph Vaughan Williams’ Dona Nobis Pacem and teaching Vocal Master Classes at California State University-Monterey Bay, also made for a great year of forward motion and musical discovery.

       

      2018 had its stellar moments too! In March of that year, Leberta was the featured soloist in Henry Mollicone’s Beatitude Mass: for the Homeless, with the Camerata Singers and she again performed with them May in a benefit for two local homeless shelters. This collaboration led to an introduction to the composer Rick Yramategui. She sang his Look at the Birds of the Air, during the Monterey County Composers Forum in Carmel Valley in August of that year.

       

      The recording of Richard Thompson’s original opera, Mask in the Mirror, based upon the life of American poet Paul Laurence Dunbar, is beautiful evidence of a wonderful collaboration between Ms. Lorál and Mr. Thompson. They met in 2017 at the 20th Annual Conference of the African American Art Song Alliance, where Leberta performed the works of composers Mr. Thompson and Undine Smith Moore. During that conference, Mr. Thompson asked Ms. Lorál to record the roles of Victoria and The Woman in the Bar for the Parma Records/Naxos label, which released the recording of Mask in the Mirror February 8, 2019.

       

      "The Mask in the Mirror, a chamber opera by Richard Thompson, chronicles Dunbar's (Paul Laurence Dunbar) rocky relationship with writer Alice Ruth Moore. Occasionally, we get a dose of something jazzier...in which the charming Joplinesque rag turns into a very catchy trio number for Humes, Leberta Lorál and Roland Mills, who sound terrific together”. Joshua Rosenblaum, Opera News, Critics Choice, July 2019

       

      An invitation from Mr. George Shirley brought Ms. Lorál to Michigan twice - once in December 2014 and again in December 2016, to sing in his annual Heritage Holiday Concert in Ann Arbor. In August of 2012, Leberta sang in concert with Maestro Mabalot at the Herbert Zipper Concert Hall in Los Angeles, CA. She was the soloist in Mahler’s Rückert-Lieder with the Symphonisches Orchester Münchens Andechs (SOMA), conducted by Maestro Andreas Pascal Heinzmann, in February 2011 in Munich, Germany. Additional engagements include performing the works of Maestro Mabalot at the Sydney Opera House and the Sydney Conservatorium of Music in August 2011, and in sold out concerts with Metropolitan Opera Mezzo, Susanne Mentzer at the Monterey Museum of Art and the Santa Lucia Preserve in Carmel, CA.

       

      A regional winner of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, while living in Los Angeles, Leberta’s made numerous appearances as the featured soloist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic in their series at the Hollywood Bowl, the Southeast Symphony and the Los Angeles Master Chorale. She has performed a broad spectrum of concert works ranging from Baroque to Contemporary, garnering critical acclaim. Her core repertoire: Johann Sebastian Bach’s Magnificat and Mass in B Minor, Handel’s Messiah, Mozart’s Requiem, Rossini’s Stabat Mater, Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Saint-Saëns’ Christmas Oratorio and Faure’s Requiem, 20th century compositions such as Vaughan Williams’ The First Novel, Mabalot’s Songs of Rumi and Thompson’s Songs of Passion. Her operatic repertoire includes the roles of Serena in Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess, the Mother in Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel with Venus (Tannhauser) in preparation. Additional repertoire in preparation is Strauss’ Vier Letzte Lieder and Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde.

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