02.11 | Die Walküre | Wagner | Virginia Opera | Norfolk, Virginia

Ms. Lorcini makes her company debut with Virginia Opera, as Fricka (also a role debut), in eight performances of the second of Wagner's Ring operas.

08.10 | Gala | Buck Hill Skytop Festival | Buck Hill Falls, PA

In the inaugural season of this exciting new festival, Ms. Lorcini appears as soloist in the Gala Concert, as well as a featured artist throughout the week's activities. The Buck Hill Skytop Festival website can be found here; the press release can be found here.

05.10 | My womb cries out | Mother of Kings | McAndrew | Toronto

On May 23, Ms. Lorcini will attend the CD launch party for McAndrew's Cassandra, at which she will sing "My womb cries out" from McAndrew's epic Mother of Kings, an opera about the life and children of Eleanor of Acquitaine. This will be the first performance of any portion of the work.

09.09 | Die Walküre | Wagner | St. John's, Fulham, London, UK

Back by popular demand, an encore performance of Nina Lorcini's Sieglinde, with the Siegmund of American heldentenor Jon Morrell, in Richard Wagner's Die Walküre.

06.09 | Confinement | Leering Buzzard Pictures | New York

Ms. Lorcini appears in an acting role in John McCarty's short feature suspense film, Confinement, filming in June.

06.09 | Rest, Opus 28 | McAndrew

Audio recording of Nina Lorcini singing Ian McAndrew's Rest with The Annex Quartet is now available for download.

05.09 | Rest , Opus 28 | McAndrew | Toronto

Video recording commences of Rest, a song for mezzosoprano and string quartet, a setting of the poem by Christina Rossetti. Ms. Lorcini records the song with The Annex Quartet in Toronto in May 2009.

02.09 | Die Walküre | Wagner | St. John's, Fulham, London, UK

American helden tenor Jon Morrell performs Siegmund to Ms.Lorcini's Sieglinde in a London, UK performance of Richard Wagner's Die Walküre.

The role of Sieglinde, traditionally a soprano role, has, in recent years, been taken on by mezzo-sopranos whose voices excel in range and colour, and are comfortable in zwissenfach roles. Ms. Lorcini brings not only mezzo-soprano richness of colour and depth of tone, but also the gleam in the upper register of a heldensopran.

01.09 | Elektra | R Strauss | One World Symphony | NYC

Ms. Lorcini performs Klytämnestra for the first time, in One World Symphony's production of Elektra, commemorating the 100th anniversary of the opera's premiere.

"Klytämnestra's nightmare aria is one of the most extraordinatry pieces Strauss ever wrote. Beginning with the metallic clanking and rattling of the ornaments with which Klytämnestra decks her racked body, the music becomes bitonal and atonal as she recounts her dream that her bone marrow is melting and that "something" crawls over her as she tries to sleep."

Michael Kennedy

05.08 | Rest , Opus 28 | McAndrew | Toronto

Canadian composer Ian McAndrew has completed Rest, a song for mezzosoprano and string quartet, a setting of the poem by Christina Rossetti. Rest was written for Miss Lorcini, and will soon be recorded.

03.08 | Alto Rhapsody, Op 53 | Brahms | One World Symphony | NYC

Ms. Lorcini makes her One World Symphony debut as soloist for the March 7th and 9th performances of Brahms' Alto Rhapsody.

This transcendent work for contralto, male chorus and orchestra is a setting of verses from Goethe’s Harzreise im Winter. The Rhapsody is a journey from anguish and alienation to a moving plea for redemption, a journey that is dark, intense, urgent and deeply spiritual, by turn.

"Marie and I were sitting in the dining-room when the bell rang, and we heard Brahms go to our mother's room. Soon afterwards, deeply stirring and solemn music reached our ears. We listened. Brahms went away, and our mother came to us in a state of great emotion. Brahms had played her his Rhapsody for an alto voice (op. 53) for the first time."

Eugenie Schumann, daughter of Clara Schumann (from her memoirs)