Our assorted stories and bios - Elena

Here I am, back again, to continue regaling you with our story...

Once upon a time, there was Elena, the opera singer...

 West Palm Beach based soprano ELENA CORREIA received her Master of Music from The Juilliard School and her Bachelor of Music from San Diego State University. She has performed with the Palm Beach Opera, Corpus Christi Symphony, Aspen Opera Theater Center, Juilliard Opera Theater, San Diego State Opera Theater, Sarasota Opera, San Diego Chamber Orchestra and Cobb Symphony Orchestra.

Ms. Correia has been a member of the master classes of Gerard Souzay, Evelyn Lear, Janet Bookspan, Muriel Costa-Greenspon and Hakan Hagegard and Jack Harrold. She was asked to perform at Mr. Harrold’s Memorial Concert at Merkin Hall alongside Ms. Elizabeth Futral. Among her numerous awards are First Place Winner of Classical Productions Award in Weill Recital Hall, Carnegie Hall, First prizes in the prestigious Graz (Austria) Meistersinger Competition, the NATS Competition and the San Diego District of the Metropolitan Opera Competition.

Highlights of her operatic roles include Rosalinda in Die Fledermaus, Cio-Cio San in Madama Butterfly, Violetta in La Traviata, Suor Osmina in Suor Angelica, the Second Lady in The Magic Flute and Stella in The Tales of Hoffmann. While performing the role of the Foreign Woman in the Consul, with IVAI in Israel,  Ms. Correia was asked to learn and cover the role of Lucia in The Rape of Lucretia with 6 days notice, and performed the role in dress rehearsals to much acclaim by Maestro Martin Isepp.

In 2001, she made her debut at Palm Beach Opera as Countess Ceprano in Rigoletto. Recently, her performances within the past several years include several recitals in Barcelona, Spain, Soloist with the Coral Springs Symphony, Hallandale Symphony and Soprano soloist, for the The Messiah at Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church.

Ms. Correia is now scheduled to give concerts and recitals throughout South Florida in the coming year, as well as a special concert for her band J.E.T., at the Pine Crest Concert Hall this Fall 2011, promoting autism awareness.

Ms. Correia is featured in 3 songs on the Beyond the Tribes album with the Klezmer Company Orchestra, which won the Just Plain Folks award; an “Independent Grammy” in 2009 for Best Klezmer Album and Best Klezmer Song.  Past performances with The Klezmer Company Orchestra, include the Eissey Theater, Parker Playhouse, & the Carole and Barry Kaye Performing Arts Auditorium, with standing ovations at all concerts.

Ms. Correia is performing her debut recital in Weill Recital Hall, Carnegie Hall, scheduled to take place in October 2012.

And there was Rafael, the architect...

  
Sorry Ralph, no bio, this is about the girls!

And they fell in love and and got married on the beach...

All right, we got that out of the way....fast forward.....(remember that? Fast forward? Rewind? Sorry, showing my age.....heh).


Since the boys aren't getting any kind of bio, I'll be kind.  This is what Ralph, um, sorry, what Rafael does when he's not busy showering his wife with love, adoration and kindness:

He creates houses and buildings in his imagination, then does the renderings (the drawings above).  He runs away to his man cave, I mean, his office so he can....work....yeah, that's it...

 

All kidding aside (which is VERY hard for me), isn't that a cool office? He has living walls in his office, nice, Ralphie!!

When he's done and his creations and goals become real edifices, this is what happens:

 

I know, I know....we all want him to make us one now!  

More to follow!!