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Founded in 1998 by Opera Singer and Artistic Director Anne Tormela, The Manhattan Lyric Opera Company (MLO), is uniquely devoted to presenting elegant, concise, user-friendly staged and concert versions of the classic Operas, Operettas and Broadway works.  They specialize in making the heart of this great music accessible to established large facilities as well as to smaller venues which might otherwise never have the resources to offer such artistic works in their entirety or in part.

Employing only top artists, (MLO) performs at: Large Theaters, Corporate Settings, Historic Houses, Museums, Libraries, State Parks, Universities, High Schools, Grade Schools, Synagogues, Churches, Music Festivals, Retirement Homes/Villages,  Private Homes, Resort Hotels, Restaurants, Cruise Ships, and can additionally offer their service as a “Dinner and an Opera ™”  evening. 

Touring often, MLO cuts down almost all of their productions to 90 minutes, adding supertitles and projected sets for a user-friendly and cost-effective approach.  They most recently completed a 2005 Florida run of Donizetti’s The Elixir of Love and will return again in 2008 to perform the ever popular Operetta, The Merry Widow.  Other  operas show-cased have been Rigoletto, Die Fledermaus, La Traviata, and Lucia di Lammermoor

In addition to Opera they perform a wide and varied repertoire which includes Broadway, Neapolitan, Lieder, Oratorio, Spirituals and Popular Songs. They can create a program in many languages, such as Italian, German, French, Spanish, Russian and Hebrew and can customize a program to fit the needs and the tastes of any audience.

 

Artistic Director and Founder

A native New Yorker, Anne Tormela, a lyric coloratura, has been noted for her “secure technique, unfailing intonation and expression and clear and sensitive text.” (Ulrik Cold; Royal Danish Opera), her “ringing and strongly expressive voice with extraordinary vocal control.” (Leif Kramp; Critic/Lübecker Nachtrichten) and “negotiating the upper reaches (of her voice) with dazzling security” (David Syrus, Head of Music, Royal Opera House, Convent Garden).

Ms. Tormela has performed numerous operatic roles and concertized all over the world in Italy, France, Germany, Israel, and Sweden, and this year will debut with the Maracaibo orchestra in Venezuela. In Germany she made her concert debut at Thronsaal auf Schlo§ in Schwerin; Stidtstheater, Wohnstift Augustinum in Bad Neuenahr, and Kammermusiksaal der Stadthalle Mülheim in Mülheim an der Ruhr.  In April of 1998 she made her debut recital at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall in New York City.

She has won numerous competitions and received several grants from facilities such as The Rockefeller Foundation and the International Vocal Arts Institute under the auspices of The Metropolitan Opera’s leading prompter and coach Joan Dornemann.

In a pioneering effort to bring opera to the masses she occasionally performs with a city sponsored program called music under NY in designated permitted spots in the subway.    In addition to opera, Ms. Tormela has a fourth degree black belt in Taekwon Do, is an avid swimmer, practices yoga and plays the clarinet.

       
       
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