Swing and sing as the NHSO Pops! salutes the most memorable jazz era.

Hightlights include favorites by Gershwin and Mercer and A Judy Garland Tribute!
 

Artists

Mara Bonde

Critically acclaimed for her electric stage presence and the purity of her tone, soprano Mara Bonde has performed throughout the United States and Europe. Equally at home in classical and popular styles, Mara made her Boston Pops debut under the direction of Keith Lockhart in Brush up your Shakespeare, which was nationally televised on PBS's Evening at Pops. Also on the concert stage, she has sung with the Naples Philharmonic, Utah, San Diego, Charlotte, New Haven, Stamford, Syracuse, Ridgefield, Nashua, and Cape Symphony Orchestras, the Handel & Haydn Society, and Boston Baroque. She also performs and records regularly with Boston Musical Theater, both here and abroad, and has toured with them in South Korea, Russia and Belgium.

She has recorded four CDs with Boston Musical Theater: Fly Me to the Moon, We'll Meet Again: The Music of World War II, All that Jazz!, and most recently Blues in the Night: The Songs of Johnny Mercer. Other recordings include Ravel's Trois beaux oiseaux du Paradis on Robert Shaw's Telarc recording Appear and Inspire and she is featured on Music for Voices by Allen Brings, released on Capstone Records. A national semi-finalist in the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions and the first prize winner in the Annamaria Saritelli-DiPanni Bel Canto Vocal Scholarship Awards, Mara's recent opera debuts include Adina in L'elisir d'amore with Sarasota Opera and Echo in Ariadne auf Naxos with Boston Lyric Opera. Next season Mara performs the role of Kathie in The Student Prince with the Artist Series of Sarasota. She has also graced the stages of Opera Omaha, Glimmerglass Opera, Utah Opera, Light Opera Oklahoma, Opera Company of North Carolina, National Opera Company (Raleigh), and the Lake George Opera Festival, in works ranging from Mozart to Mollicone and Sullivan to Sondheim.

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