Caroline Selia, Soprano

Caroline Selia
soprano

originally from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, graduated with Honors
from the prestigious Carnegie Mellon University. She completed
her Masters of Music degree at the University of Tennessee
where she was a member of the Knoxville Opera Studio
Apprenticeship Program. Based in New York City, Ms. Selia sang
the role of Rosalinde in Die Fledermaus with the Opera
Company of Brooklyn in German to wonderful reviews in both
February and June of 2010. Along with traditional opera, Ms.
Selia likes to smear the edges of new, contemporary music and
recently she premiered the leading soprano role in the new
electronica opera Wednesday Before Last written by Kristin
Hevne, Daniel Wyatt, and Royce Vavreck for the Musaic
Concert Series which she created and produced at the LES
hot spot, Crash Mansion in June, 2010.

"Caroline Selia herself also gave a powerful performance and
wowed with her glittering, pitch-perfect soprano."
- Opera Insider on "Wednesday Before Last" at Crash Mansion,
June 28, 2010.

Ms. Selia also belted it out, musical theatre style, at the charity
benefit concert Singin' in the Shower with American Idol finalist
and B'way veteran Diana DeGarmo and hosted by Bradely d.
Gale on July 5, 2010 for Broadway at Birdland in NYC.

When Ms. Selia is not performing opera or musical theatre, she is
building the music education department for the impressive and
well established, early childhood education center of 74th St.
MAGIC on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. Caroline is also
involved with various children's programs throughout New York
City and has appeared on television as a part of the
'Wednesday's Child Adoption Program' as both singer and
teacher to six year old Eligahes. The Wednesday's Child is a
weekly televised feature that helps recruit adoptive families who
can provide permanent and loving homes for New York City
foster children.

She is also breaking ground with her acting and vocal workshops
for her well respected private voice studio where she has been
teaching for over 8 years. Along with that, she is a well
connected member of the artistic community, having created
and producing the Musaic Concert Series which features
talented musicians and performers from rock n' roll, musical
theatre, opera, and pop/jazz. She has also joined forces with the
fashion industry in taking part of 'Night at the Opera', a
breakthrough concept created by up and coming fashion
designer, Heather Rama for her Fall 2007 line.

While she appeared in the Knoxville Opera's world renowned
Rossini Festival as Alida Slade in Robert Ward's Roman Fever
she was reviewed by the Knoxville New Sentinel's Harold
Duckett, "Based on Edith Wharton's short story of two women
who return to Rome with their daughters, "Roman Fever" is
basically a restrained catfight. As the conniving mother Alida
Slade, Caroline Selia was beyond excellent." She also appeared
with Knoxville Opera in 2004, where she made her professional
debut, as the Second Lady in The Magic Flute . In the 2003-
2004 opera season she covered the roles of Rosalinde in Die
Fledermaus, Liù in Turandot, and Countessa Almaviva in Le
Nozze di Figaro for Knoxville Opera. Moreover, she will be
making her debut with the Opera Company of Brooklyn this
winter in February 2010, in Die Fledermaus as Rosalinde. Her
past production credits include, Susannah in a production of the
University of Tennessee's Susannah where she worked with Mr.
Floyd. "In helping her prepare the role of Susannah, I saw that
Caroline was born to be on stage, her delivery of this vocally and
dramatically demanding role was both beautiful and moving,"
Coach/Collaborative artist/Rehearsal pianist, Nathalie Doucet-
Lalkens.

Other productions include the Grosser Chor in the Opera
Theatre of Pittsburgh’s production of Kurt Weill’s Die
Bürgschaft, a Pittsburgh premiere, Nella in Michael Ching's
Buoso’s Ghost, Cricket in The Cunning Little Vixen, and
Emmie in Albert Herring. She has won many competitions
including place 3rd in the American Institute of Musical Studies
(AIMS) Meistersinger Competition in Graz, Austria. She won the
Encouragement Award at the Metropolitan Opera National
Council Auditions in Nashville, and won 1st place in both Musical
Theatre and Classical for Women at the NATS Tri-State
Pennsylvania competition.

She has worked under the baton of many of today's leading
conductors most notably, Julius Rudel, Francis Graffeo, James
Fellenbaum, Mark Stringer, and Edouardo Müller. Furthermore,
Ms. Selia is no stranger to the concert repertoire, while living in
Europe some of concert highlights include, Strauss' "Zueignung"
with the AIMS Orchestra in Graz, Austria. Other concert
repertoire include soprano soloist in Handel's Messiah, Berstein's
Chichester Psalms, and Bach's Magnificat in D minor. Her voice
teachers and vocal coaches include, Claudia Catania, Elizabeth
Hastings, Roseanna Irwin, Nathalie Doucet-Lalkens, Curt Pajer,
Mildred Miller, Marjorie Bennett Stephens, and Gustavo Halley.

Caroline Selia working with Eligahes on his music skills for the
adoption program Wednesday's Child for NBC- New York City.

Biography