Dominica Matthews - "Giovanna d'Arco" (Rossini) 2006

The Australian mezzo-soprano, Dominica Matthews, is a graduate of the Royal Northern College of Music, UK and the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. She was an Ian Potter Foundation Grant recipient in 2003-2004 and winner of the Elizabeth Harwood Memorial Award at RNCM. As a Principal Artist with Opera Australia, she has performed in a wide range of repertoire including included the title roles in La Cenerentola and Orlando, Romeo in I Capuleti e i Montecchi, Rosina in Il barbiere di Siviglia, Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro, Hermia in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Mallika in Lakmé, Lola in Cavalleria Rusticana, Flora in La traviata, Third Lady in The Magic Flute, Pitti-Sing in The Mikado, Tessa in The Gondoliers, Eunice Hubble in A Streetcar Named Desire, Mistress Quickly (Falstaff), Maddalena/Giovanna (Rigoletto), Lucienne (Die tote Stadt), Florence Pike (Albert Herring), Madame Larina (Eugene Onegin), Nicklausse in The Tales of Hoffmann Sonyetka in Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, Flosshilde, Schwertleite & Flosshilde in the RING, Berta in The Barber of Seville, Praskovia in The Merry Widow, Marthe in Faust, The Countess in Andrea Cheniér, The Mummy in Ghost Sonata, Older Beryl Whiteley in Whiteley, Marcellina in The Marriage of Figaro, Margret in Wozzeck and Magdalene in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg. This recording of Rossini's cantata "Giovanna d'Arco" was comes from 2006 with pianist Andrew Greene.