Merola Grand Finale, War Memorial Opera House in San Francisco; photo credit: Kristen Loken
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Acis Productions has released Wings - Chamber Music by Rami Levin, now available on all streaming platforms. Alisa delivers Três Canções, a setting of three Portuguese texts written by the seven-year-old daughter of a Brazilian friend, "with immense flair and feeling" and is accompanied by Kuang-Hao Huang, whose "performance is as stellar" (Textura). "Accompanied by Eugenia Moliner (flute), Lillian Lau (harp), and Denis Alzabagic (guitar), Jordheim gives resplendent voice to stirring renditions of "Sixpence," "Apple Pie," "Hey, Diddle Diddle," and "The House that Jack Built"' in Levin's Four English Songs (Textura). For more information and to buy the album, click here.
Alisa and pianist Kuang-Hao Huang receive First Prize from the Doug Davis Composition and Performance Awards for their performance of Doug Davis's song cycle, Family Portraits. To hear the recording, please click here and scroll down to the "new music" section.
February 26, 2024
February 26, 2024
Acis Productions has released The Ocean of Eternity - The Songs of Lori Laitman, now available on all streaming platforms. On this new album, Alisa sings Laitman's song cycle, Fresh Patterns, with soprano Patrice Michaels and pianist Andrew Rosenblum. For more information and to buy the album, click here.
Teatro Nuovo asked 22 singers to record one arietta each from Vaccai's Practical Method of Italian Singing ("Metodo pratico di canto italiano per camera") using their own equipment at home during COVID-19. With Alisa Jordheim, Santiago Ballerini, Lawrence Brownlee, Teresa Castillo, Junhan Choi, Georgia Jarman, Hannah Ludwig, Christine Lyons, Megan Marino, Dorian McCall, Madison Marie McIntosh, Angela Meade, Tamara Mumford, Lisette Oropesa, Daniel Mobbs, Jennifer Rowley, Nicholas Simpson, Michael Spyres, Derrek Stark, Alina Tamborini, Hans Tashjian, and Meigui Zhang. Bel Canto in Thirty Minutes:
Alisa receives the Irwin Scherzer Encouragement Award from the George London Foundation
February 21, 2020
February 21, 2020
As Ninetta in La gazza ladra, Alisa receives honorable mention for best "Individual Performance, Female" from the Seventh Annual Excellence in Opera Awards:
Alisa sings Lori Laitman's song cycle, Five Lovers, on the composer's Living in the Body double CD. The CD is now available in hard copy and all forms of digital download and streaming. To buy the album, click here.
Alisa is named one of the winners of the 2019 Kaleidoscope International Vocal Competition.
May 4, 2019
May 4, 2019
In this interview for the San Diego Opera Podcast, Alisa talks to Nicolas Reveles about her role and company debut as Gilda in Rigoletto, the challenges of the role, and the importance of the breath for singing:
Learn more about Alisa, San Diego Opera's Gilda, in this Broadway World Interview by Ron Bierman:
Alisa is featured on WQXR New York Public Radio's "40 under 40: A New Generation of Superb Opera Singers":
Alisa made her unexpected French debut jumping in for an ailing colleague to sing the Mozart Requiem with Ensemble Pygmalion as part of the Château de Versailles Spectacles season.
March 10 & 11, 2018
March 10 & 11, 2018
Sister Carrie, written by Grammy Award- winning composer-librettist team Robert Aldridge and Herschel Garfein, is available in hard copy and all forms of digital download and streaming. Alisa sings the role of Lola in this premiere recording, which was made live from performances with Florentine Opera. To buy the recording, click here.
Alisa completed a recording session in Chicago for Fresh Patterns, a song cycle written for her by Lori Laitman. The cycle includes soprano Patrice Michaels and pianist Andrew Rosenblum. This recording was produced by Lori Laitman, engineered by Bill Maylone, and released in April 2022 by Acis Productions on The Ocean of Eternity - The Songs of Lori Laitman.
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Alisa is the voice of Bel in the animated short film Over The Horizon, written and directed by David Pierson.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt6169770/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt6169770/
Alisa wins The Sullivan Foundation Award
https://sullivanfoundation.org/pastWinners.html
November 16, 2016
https://sullivanfoundation.org/pastWinners.html
November 16, 2016
This episode of "The Arts Page" features some background information on the world premiere of Sister Carrie. Composer Robert Aldridge, librettist Herschel Garfein, William Florescu, and the cast comment on the story, characters, and process of bringing a new opera to life, including snippets from the final dress rehearsal:
Check out this episode of "The Arts Page" featuring the Florentine Opera Company's exciting recent projects (including Sister Carrie) and opera in general:
Alisa wins a Career Development Grant from The Sullivan Foundation
November 10, 2015
November 10, 2015
Alisa wins the 2015 Bel Canto Regional Artists Competition
May 9, 2015
May 9, 2015
Alisa receives a 2013 U.S. Student Fulbright Award and becomes a Fellow of the American Scandinavian Foundation
Ms. Jordheim fulfilled her residency at the University of Oslo in Norway where she studied Scandinavian song and diction as a Fulbright Scholar and Fellow of the American Scandinavian Foundation. To view the press release, click the link below:
Ms. Jordheim fulfilled her residency at the University of Oslo in Norway where she studied Scandinavian song and diction as a Fulbright Scholar and Fellow of the American Scandinavian Foundation. To view the press release, click the link below:
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NOW AVAILABLE: Alisa has provided English translations of several Norwegian song texts in Anna Hersey's book, Scandinavian Song: A Guide to Swedish, Norwegian, and Danish, published by Rowman & Littlefield.
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NOW AVAILABLE: Alisa co-wrote an article with Wencke Ophaug titled "Transcribing Scandinavian Song Texts into IPA," which was published in the March/April 2015 issue of the NATS Journal of Singing. For more information on the NATS Journal of Singing, please visit:
https://www.nats.org/cgi/page.cgi/about_journal_singing.html Download the article below:
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