JANICE CHANDLER-ETEME
Soprano
American mezzosoprano
THE FLORIDA ORCHESTRA | 2017-2018
Nancy
Maultsby is in demand
by opera companies
and orchestras
throughout the world.
Her unique vocal
timbre and insightful
musicianship allow
her to pursue a
repertoire extending
from the operas
of Monteverdi and
Handel to recent
works by John Adams. She regularly performs
the major heroines of nineteenth-century French,
Italian, and German opera and the great symphonic
masterpieces.
Highlights of Maultsby’s future and recent seasons
include performances of Debussy’s Pelléas et
Mélisande with The Cleveland Orchestra as
Geneviève in a new semi-staged production by Yuval
Sharon, conducted by Franz Welser-Möst. Maultsby
will also sing Handel’s Messiah with the New Jersey
Symphony Orchestra and Verdi’s Requiem with The
Florida Orchestra. The 2015/2016 season featured
performances of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with
the San Antonio Symphony conducted by Sebastian
Lang-Lessing, Handel’s Messiah with the Baltimore
Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Edward
Polochick, as well as a return to Lyric Opera of Kansas
City as Ježibaba in Dvořák’s Rusalka.
Internationally, her extensive career has taken
her to the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
(Die Ägyptische Helena), Teatro dell’Opera in
Rome (Oedipus Rex), Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires
(Carmen), Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa (Norma),
Opéra de Montréal (Bluebeard’s Castle, Aida),
Staatsoper Stuttgart (Die Walküre), Teatro San Carlo
in Naples, Italy (Oedipus Rex), Semperoper Dresden
(Oedipus Rex), De Nederlandse Opera (Rigoletto) and
the Greek National Opera in Athens (Aida, Oedipus
Rex, L’incoronazione di Poppea).
NANCY MAULTSBY
Mezzo-soprano
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American soprano
Janice Chandler-
Eteme’s astonishing
range of concert
literature includes
Strauss’ Four
Last Songs, Philip
Glass’ Passion
of Ramakrishna,
Mahler’s Second
S y m p h o n y ,
Haydn’s Die
S c h ö p f u n g ,
M e n d e l s s -
ohn’s Lobgesang Symphony, Lokumbe’s Dear
Mrs. Parks and Can You Hear God
Crying?, Brahms’ Requiem, Mahler’s Eighth
Symphony, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9,
Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915, Tippett’s A
Child of Our Time and Britten’s War Requiem. She
remains among the most in-demand sopranos for
Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess. Other forays into operatic
literature have included a first-ever Donna Elvira in
Mozart’s Don Giovanni with the National Philharmonic.
Chandler-Eteme first came to international
prominence as a favorite of Robert Shaw. She has
collaborated with many renowned conductors,
among them Marin Alsop, James Conlon, Andreas
Delfs, Christoph von Dohnányi, Charles Dutoit, Claus
Peter Flor, Hans Graf, Jeffrey Kahane, Carlos Kalmar,
Raymond Leppard, Jahja Ling, Andrew Litton, Keith
Lockhart, David Lockington, Stuart Malina, Peter
Oundjian, Christof Perick, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Stefan
Sanderling, Vladimir Spivakov, Yuri Temirkanov, Edo
de Waart and Hugh Wolff.
She has performed with the symphony orchestras
of Los Angeles, Boston, NHK (Japan), Hong Kong,
Philadelphia, Cleveland, Milwaukee, Seattle, Detroit,
Nashville, Cincinnati, and Vancouver along with
the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra and Rochester
Philharmonic.
Festival invitations include Bard, Grant Park, Aspen,
Prague Autumn and Blossom. Her recordings
include an inspirational solo disc, Devotions, and the
Dvořák Te Deum with Zdeněk Mácal and the New
Jersey Symphony. She holds degrees from Oakwood
College and Indiana University and has studied with
Virginia Zeani, Margaret Harshaw, Ginger Beazley and
Todd Duncan.