Gale Fuller, mezzo-soprano, is enjoying a career rich in concert, opera and oratorio. Hailed by audiences and critics alike for the sumptuousness of her singing, she has been described as the "sultriest voice in town" by the Boston Globe. This past season opened with several New England performances of Bernstein's Trouble in Tahiti with Intermezzo, then a turn with Opera Boston as Metella in La Vie Parisienne to glowing reviews. She joined Richard Pittman and the New England Philharmonic for a critically acclaimed performance of the Berg, Altenberg lieder and the Boston premier of the concert suite from Sophie's Choice by Nickolas Maw at the Tsai Center. In January, she portrayed Maddalena in Rigoletto with conductor Jeffrey Rink and the Newton Symphony, followed by performances of Alexander Lyadov's Five Russian Folk Songs with Mark Churchill and Symphony Pro Musica. In April, she will sing the Haydn Lord Nelson Mass with the Wellesley College Choir followed by a bel canto recital at Framingham State College. In May, Ms. Fuller travels first to Munich and on to China for a series of concerts and master classes with pianists Oresta Cybriwsky, Fernando Laires and Nelita True from the Eastman School of Music. She will sing Ravel's Sheherazade with the orchestra in Beijing.
Ms. Fuller has performed with many opera companies and orchestras throughout the United States and Japan, including San Diego Opera, Austin Lyric Opera, Sacramento Opera, Opera Colorado, Opera Syracuse, Boston Lyric Opera, the Boston Philharmonic, Tokyo Philharmonic, the Telemann Orchestra of Osaka, Japan, Opera South, Lake George Music Festival, the Milwaukee Symphony, the San Antonio Symphony, the Chamber Music Society of Connecticut, the Boston Ballet, Binghamton Philharmonic, the San Diego Chamber Ensemble and the New England String Ensemble. Ms. Fuller made her Carnegie Hall debut in Mahler's Eighth Symphony with the Boston Philharmonic under the baton of Benjamin Zander, and was presented in recital at Carnegie's Weill Recital Hall under the auspices of the Center for Contemporary Opera. She is a frequent artist with many choral and orchestral organizations in New England. Recent engagements include several critically acclaimed performances of Verdi's Requiem, Dvorak's Requiem, Elgar's Sea Pictures, Ravel's Sheherazade, Vivaldi's Nisi Dominus, and performances of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, fifteen of them with the Boston Ballet.
Ms. Fuller holds degrees from the Peabody Conservatory of Music and the New England Conservatory of Music, and serves on the faculty of Wellesley College. She is a winner of the Liederkranz competition and the International Center for Contemporary Opera competition and has been named an outstanding artist by Musical America.
