ILAH RALEIGH
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​Highlights

Roles Performed 

​(Partial List)​

  • ​Marian Anderson, First Ladies Suite (LaChiusa) - Theatre Elision 
  • Bacchis, ​La belle Hélène (Offenbach) - Lakes Area Music Festival
  • Edith, Pirates of Penzance (Sullivan) - Orlando Opera​
  • Paquette, Candide (Bernstein) - Orlando Opera
  • Kate Pinkerton, Madame Butterfly (Puccini) - Vero Beach Opera, Orlando Opera
  • 2nd Lady & Papagena, The Magic Flute (Outreach) (W.A. Mozart) - Orlando Opera
  • ​Ruth, Major General, Edith, Pirates! (Outreach) - Orlando Opera
  • Don Ettore, La canterina (Haydn) - Opera Theatre of Northern Virgina
  • ​Il Musico, Le convenienze teatrali (Donizetti) - Opera Theatre of Northern Virginia
  • La Cayetana, Rio de Mujeres (Armienta) - Bay Area Summer Opera Theater Institute (BASOTI)
  • Diana, La Calisto (Francesco Cavalli) - Ignoti dei Opera
  • Mrs. Nolan, The Medium (Menotti) - Municipal Opera Company of Baltimore​


Concert & Recital 

(Partial List)

  • Bloomington Symphony Orchestra: Soprano favorites (O mio babbino caro, Summertime, My Man's Gone Now)
  • Journey North Opera Company: Changing the Narrative
  • Minnesota Thursday Musical: Spanish and French Songs by Pauline Viardot
  • MN Thursday Musical: H. Leslie Adams, Nightsongs with Michael Vasich, piano, Owatonna Art Center
  • MN Thursday Musical: Canciones amatorias (Granados), Marian and Stanley Parrish Arts Series
  • ​MN Thursday Musical: Frauenliebe und -leben
  • ​​​MacPhail Spotlight Series: Love Songs, Schubert's Der Hirt auf dem Felsen and Brahms' Liebeslieder Walzer
  • KleinBank Summer Concert Series - Songs of Innocence and Experience
  • Opera on Tap, Twin Cities, Honey Nightclub
  • Opera Duets and Ensembles, Performed in Scenes from Donizetti's Anna Bolena & Ponchelli's La Gioconda
  • L'infinito, Kate Sattler, American Composers Forum
  • Annual Mu Phi Epsilon Benefit for Music in the Minneapolis and St. Paul Public School, Featured Artist
  • Rollins University Faculty Recital, Guest Artist w/Christine Barron, clarinet
  • Winter Park Musicale Scholarship Fund Benefit Recital - FL, Featured Artist​​


Training

Vocal Pedagogy

  • Popular Singing Styles – Developing Your Sound, Berklee Online, Berklee School of Music
  • Contemporary Commercial Music Vocal Pedagogy Institute, Shenandoah University
  • Voice Explorations Class: Group Voice with Dr. Clifton Ware

Music Business

  • Business of Opera Workshop, ADA Artist Management and Representation

Acting & Movement

  • Acting Class: Scenes, A.S. Vocal Studio
  • Basic Movement for the Opera Singer, I, II, III; A.S. Vocal Studio
  • ​19th Century Acting Techniques Workshop
  • Introduction to Acting Class, Guthrie Theater

Performance

  • Orlando Opera Resident Artist Program
  • Bay Area Summer Opera Theater Institute (BASOTI)

Education

  • Ed.D., Educational Leadership & Learning (honors)
    University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN 
    • Dissertation: Mixed People, Mixed Music: Hybrid Contemporary Commercial Music Genres and the Multiracial Artists Who Create Them
  • M. Mus., Vocal Performance
    Peabody Institute, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
  • B.A., Italian Studies, Phi Beta Kappa
    University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

Teachers    

  • Audrey Stottler
  • Giulietta Simionato
  • Helen Vanni
  • Dr. Marguerite Hedges
  • Lila Olson
  • Manny Perez
  • Marianna Busching
  • Dr. George Gibson

Coaches    

  • Eric McEnaney
  • Lara Bolton
  • Thomas Grubb
  • John Shirley-Quirk
  • Gillian Cookson
  • Ernest Ligon
  • Franca Gorraz
  • Anna Fre

Conductors

  • Manny Laureano
  • Jonathan Brandani
  • Andreas Mitisek
  • Robin Stamper
  • Christopher Wilkins
  • Andrew Lane
  • John E. Niles
  • Matthias Kuntzsch
  • Hajime Teri Murai
  • Layton James 

Directors

  • JJ Hudson
  • ​Uwe Drechsel
  • Dorthy Danner
  • Robert Swedberg
  • Frank McClain
  • Roger Brunyate
  • David Toulson
  • Edward Crafts
  • David Ostwald 

Memberships

  • National Association of Teachers of Singing, Since 2017
  • Thursday Musical, Since 2014-2018
  • Winter Park Musicale, 2008-2010
  • Mu Phi Epsilon, Since 2002
  • Phi Beta Kappa, Since 2002

Ilah Raleigh, Arts Education Leader & Performing Artist 
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    • In their own words...
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