Michèle Crider [SEP] voice type
Michèle Crider
Michèle Crider (born 1959, Quincy, IL) is an American lirico spinto operatic soprano. She has appeared in many of the great opera house in the world including the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, the Metropolitan Opera in New York, San Francisco Opera, Los Angeles Opera, and the state operas of Vienna, Munich, Berlin and Hamburg. She has sung alongside the great conductors such as Riccardo Muti, Daniel Barenboim, Zubin Mehta, James Levine, Nello Santi, Christoph von Dohnányi, Semyon
"Carmen" and "L'Elisir d'Amore".
The company celebrated its 20th season with a May 2010 production of Puccini's "Madama Butterfly", featuring Quincy native and international opera singer Michèle Crider as Cio-Cio San.
Collaborations.
The company collaborated with the Quincy Symphony Orchestra in producing "Hansel and Gretel", "Evita" and "Jekyll & Hyde". "The Tender Land" was also produced during the 1995 Copland Festival. In 2008, MROC presented Donizetti's "L'Elisir d'Amore",