Marsha Thompson:
CLASS OF 1991
Caddo Parish Magnet High SchoolClass of 1991
Shreveport, LA
Marsha's Story
Life
Hello All!
I hope to hear from some of you.... it has been far too long! I currently live in NYC. I am an opera singer but I also now have a wonderful corporate job in which I am working for an engineering firm in Mid-town across the street form Grand Central as the Director of Marketing & Business Development. The great thing about my job is that I can take my work on the road when I have singing engagements. If any of you are in NYC, please send notice and I would love to meet up. I rarely get back to Shreveport as my parents moved to Houston when I was attending university there. Below is my opera bio if you are interested in what I have been up to in the singing business. Take care and I hope to be in touch.... Best Regards.... Marsha Thompson
American soprano Marsha Thompson made her European debut as Aida in Franco Zeffirelli's new, 2001 production of Aida in Milan, as a part of Italy's Verdi Centennial Celebrations. A cast of exceptionally gifted young singers personally chosen by Maestro Zeffirelli for their outstanding acting abilities sang the production. Ms. Thompson's Upcoming and recent operatic engagements include Violetta in LaTraviata with Mississippi Opera, Viennese Operetta concerts at the Ravello Festival in Amalfi, Italy, and Mimà in La Bohème and Tosca with New Opera Festival of Rome. She has also sung Bess in Porgy and Bess with New York City Opera at Lincoln Center and Opera Carolina in Charlotte. Her recent concert engagements include performances of Beethoven's Symphony #9 and Bachianas Brazileiras with the Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra, a Gala Concert with the Shreveport Symphony, ...Expand for more
and an all Gershwin Gala with the San Antonio Symphony. Past concert performances include an Opera Gala Concert with the North Arkansas Symphony, Schubert's Der Hirt auf dem Felsen with the Galveston Symphony Orchestra, excerpts from Ernani and Tosca with the AIMS Festival Orchestra, Porgy and Bess with the North Carolina Symphony Orchestra and the Moores Opera Center Orchestra.
Formally trained as a violinist since five years of age, Ms. Thompson majored in violin performance at the University of Houston, where she was also a participant in the Texas Music Festival. She began her voice studies at University of Houston with the late Debria Brown, performing with the Moores Opera Center and other prestigious groups such as Houston's Ebony Opera Guild and Chicago's Lyric Opera Center for American Artists. Recently, Ms. Thompson has received numerous prestigious awards including grants from the Career Bridges Foundation, Opera Index Society, Gerda Lissner, Licia Albanese-Puccini Foundation, and the George London Foundation among many others. Other notable awards include Third Place in the SW Region Metropolitan Opera Nation Council Auditions, the Metropolitan Opera National Council Encouragement Award, First Prize in the Enrico Caruso Awards Competition, First Prize in the National Society of Arts and Letters Competition, First Prize in the Links Inc., Emerging Young Professional in the Arts, a Finalist in the Palm Beach Opera Competition, the winner in the Dallas Opera Guild Competition, Second Place in the 2001 Fort Worth Opera Competition, and First Place in the Rehfuss Singing Actor Competition of Orlando Opera.
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