First Lady in Bare Opera's Die Zauberflöte
Photo: Gustavo Mirabile
Soprano Liana Guberman, a native New Yorker. specializes in art song, concert work, and opera. As a voice teacher, she enjoys teaching all genres: pop, musical theater, country, choral, and classical.
As a Resident Artist with Bare Opera, a NYC and world-wide based opera company, Liana sang Rosina and La Contessa in Mozart/Rossini's Figaro x Figaro, Erste Dame in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte, and Fannì in Rossini’s La Cambiale di Matrimonio.
Liana spent two seasons with Palm Beach Opera. As a Benenson Young Artist, she performed Echo in Strauss’ Ariadne auf Naxos, Hannah in the world premiere of Ben Moore’s Enemies, A Love Story, and Rosario in Granados’ Goyescas.
Other roles include: Lia in Debussy’s L’enfant prodigue with Bare Opera, Mimì in La Bohème with LoftOpera, Pamina in Die Zauberflöte with Purchase Opera, Contessa in Le Nozze di Figaro with LoftOpera, and Donna Anna in Don Giovanni with Mannes Opera. Liana was a Fellow at Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, California where she sang the soprano solo in Mahler’s 4th Symphony and covered Micaëla in Carmen.
A winner of several major vocal competitions, Liana was a winner of the St. Louis district of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. She has won scholarships from the Bel Canto Vocal Foundation, 2nd Prize in the Southold Opera Competition at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Hall, and a grant from the Grand Stage International Lieder Competition. Liana was the Fourth Prize winner of the Florida Grand Opera/Young Patronesses of the Opera. She was also an encouragement grant winner of the Opera General Division of the Gerda Lissner Foundation and was a finalist in the Jensen Foundation Competition. She also won grants from both the Lieder/Song and Opera General Divisions of the Gerda Lissner Foundation.
Liana attended the Franz-Schubert-Institut in Baden bei Wien, Austria, where she studied the poetry and performance of Lieder. This experience made her passionate about singing in German and performing Lieder in concert.
A great lover of choral music, she has been performing for over a decade with the Hudson Valley Singers led by Maestro Eugene Sirotkine. With them she has sung Euridice in Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice, an All-Purcell concert, Haydn’s The Creation, Orff’s Carmina Burana, Queen of Sheba and First Woman in Handel’s Solomon, and many others. She has also sung the soprano solo in Beethoven’s 9th Symphony with Flint Symphony Orchestra.
Liana was featured in a recording of pieces from a chamber oratorio entitled “From Sappho’s Lyre” by new composer Constantine Caravassilis.
She has performed in opera concerts as part of the Saint Simons Island Concert Series on Saint Simons, Georgia (USA).
In December 2022, she sang the soprano solo in Mozart’s Requiem and J.S. Bach’s Magnificat with Eugene Sirotkine and the Hudson Valley Singers.
Opera Roles
Micaëla Carmen Bizet
Lia L’enfant prodigue Debussy
Euridice Orfeo ed Euridice Gluck
Rosario Goyescas Granados
Contessa Le nozze di Figaro Mozart
Pamina Die Zauberflöte Mozart
Erste Dame Die Zauberflöte Mozart
Donna Anna Don Giovanni Mozart
Donna Elvira Don Giovanni Mozart
Masha Enemies, A Love Story Ben Moore
Thérèse Les Mamelles de Tirésias Poulenc
Mimì La Bohème Puccini
Suor Angelica Suor Angelica Puccini
Anna Nabucco Verdi
La Chauve-Souris L’enfant et les Sortilèges Ravel
Fannì La cambiale di matrimonio Rossini
Echo Ariadne auf Naxos R. Strauss
Parasha Mavra Stravinsky
PARTIAL Roles
Norina Don Pasquale Donizetti
Marguerite Faust Gounod
Kostanze Die Entführung aus dem Serail Mozart
Fiordiligi Così fan tutte Mozart
Antonia Les Contes d’Hoffman Offenbach
Manon Lescaut Manon Lescaut Puccini
Arabella Arabella R. Strauss
Amelia Simon Boccanegra Verdi
Violetta La Traviata Verdi
ORATORIO AND CHAMBER MUSIC
BACH
Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen, BWV 51
St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244
St. John Passion, BWV 245
Wedding Cantata, BWV 202
Funeral Cantata, BWV 198
Magnificat, BWV 243
And cantata arias: Angenehmer Zephyrus (BWV 205), Die seele ruht (BWV 127), Mein glaubiges Herze (BWV 68), Verleih, dass ich aus Herzensgrund (BWV 177), Bereite dir, Jesu, noch itzo die Bahn (BWV 147), Mein Gott, ich liebe dich (BWV 77), Ich nehme mein Leiden mit Freuden auf mich (BWV 75), Gelobet sei der Herr, mein Gott (BWV 129), Wie zittern und wanken (BWV 105)
BEETHOVEN
Elegiac Song (Op. 118), Choral Fantasy
Symphony No. 9
BRAHMS
Zigeunerlieder, Op. 103 (quartet)
Neue Liebeslieder Walzer (quartet)
HÄNDEL
The Messiah
Solomon
HAYDN
The Creation
MAHLER
Symphony No. 4
MOZART
Vesperae solennes, K. 339
Great Mass in C, K. 427
Requiem, K. 626
Concert arias:
L'amerò saro costante, K. 208
Ch'io mi scordi di te, K. 505
Bella mia fiamma, addio, K. 528
Vorrei spiegarvi, O Dio!, K. 418
Nehmt meinem Dank, K. 383
ORFF
Carmina Burana
PURCELL
Selections from Fairy Queen
Let the Bright Seraphim
RACHMANINOFF
Vocalise
SCHUBERT
Der Hirt auf dem Felsen
SCHUMANN
Szene aus Goethes Faust Part III
Adventlied, Op. 71
STRAUSS
Vier Letzte Lieder, Op. 27
Young Artist Programs
Palm Beach Opera Young Artist Program West Palm Beach, FL
Music Academy of the West Summer Festival Santa Barbara, CA
Castleton Artist Training Seminar Castleton Festival Castleton, VA
"Si Parla, Si Canta" Centro Studi Italiani Urbania, Italy
Poetry & Performance of German Lied Franz-Schubert-Institut Baden bei Wien, Austria
Education
Prof. Studies Diploma Mannes College - The New School New York, NY
Master of Music Purchase College Conservatory Purchase, NY
Bachelor of Music Boston University Boston, MA
Languages skills
Basic proficiency: German, Italian
Has studied: French, Latin
Has sung in: Russian, Czech, Spanish
Awards
Scholarship Winner Bel Canto Vocal Scholarship Foundation
Second Prize Winner Southold Opera Competition, Emerging Artists, at Carnegie Hall
Grant Winner Grand Stage International Lieder Competition
Fourth Prize Winner Young Patronesses of Opera/Florida Grand Opera Vocal Competition in Miami Beach, FL
Finalist Jensen Foundation Competition
Grant Winner Gerda Lissner Foundation Lieder Competition
Encouragement Grant Winner Licia Albanese-Puccini Competition
St. Louis District Award Winner Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions
Third Prize Award Gerda Lissner Foundation Competition
Grant Winner Giulio Gari Competition