Praised for a “lustrous” voice with ”gorgeous timbre” and “youthful vigor”, Mezzo Soprano Sonja Bruzauskas “entrances audiences” throughout the United States.Sonja’s repertoire embraces a wide range of operatic roles (Rosina in “The Barber of Seville”, Hansel in “Hansel und Gretel”, Nancy in “Martha”, Beatrice in “Beatrice et Benedict”, Orlovsky in “Die Fledermaus”, The Mother in “Amahl and the Night Visitors”, to name a few), Musical Theatre ( Eliza in “My Fair Lady”, Anita in “West Side Story”, Mary Magdalene in “Jesus Christ Superstar”, as well as Concert (Beethoven’s 9th Symphony, Handel’s Messiah, Stravinsky’s Les Noces, Bach’s St. Matthew’s Passion, St. John’s Passion, Christmas Oratorio, Caldara’s Christmas Oratorio, Vivaldi’s Gloria, Durufle’s Requiem, Mozart’s Requiem, Prokofiev’s Alexander Nevsky and many more).Sonja made her professional Opera debut singing Hansel in “Hansel und Gretel” with the Nordharzer Staedtebundtheater as well as Nancy in “Martha” with the Staatsoperette Dresden, Germany, where she was under a full-time soloist contract for several years prior to her move to the United States.
In the US, Sonja made her debut covering Beatrice in “Beatrice et Benedict” and singing the Maidservant in “Simon Boccanegra” during her stay as Apprentice Artist with the Santa Fe Opera.Sonja holds a diploma in Voice, Dance and Acting from the “Folkwang Hochschule”, Essen, Germany, and a Master of Music degree in Opera from “Manhattan School of Music” where she studied with Marlena Malas.Besides being a performing Artist, Sonja serves as Artistic Director for the non-profit organization “Divas World Productions”, an organization that produces Sonja’s artistic creation known Song Salon Series. This season, the series will be recorded for national radio broadcast.Sonja lives in Houston, Texas with her husband, Houston Haymon, and their two daughters, Clara Sophie and Emilia Marie.
Sonja Bruzauskas will perform with ROCO in Amahl and the Night Visitors, a ROCO production in collaboration with St. John the Divine, on the Epiphany, January 6, 2012.