Mezzo-soprano Krista River combines a clear, warm voice with a natural musicality and charming stage presence. Highlights of her 2004-05 season include her New York Recital debut at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, concert engagements including Handel’s Messiah with the Santa Fe Symphony & Chorus, Vivaldi’s Gloria with the Concord Chorus and Handel’s Israel in Egypt with Emmanuel Music, recitals at the Saco River Festival in Maine and on the Bravi! Vermont series, and an opera appearance with Boston’s Prism Opera as Annio in La Clemenza di Tito. Ms. River has appeared as a concert soloist in Mozart’s Sparrow Mass with the Handel and Haydn Society, Bach’s Magnificat and Christmas Oratorio with Emmanuel Music, and Telemann’s St. Matthew Passion with the Pittsburgh Bach and Baroque Ensemble. Her opera appearances include Amahl and the Night Visitors with the Santa Fe Symphony, Albert Herring with the Red House Opera, Don Giovanni with Opera Aperta, Hansel and Gretel with Opera Southwest, and A Hand of Bridge with Intermezzo Opera.

Krista River appears in Handel's Messiah, November 27-December 4, 2005.

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