Email:vkelly@okcu.edu
Education:
- Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees from
Oklahoma City
Personal
Instructors:
- Inez Lundsford Silberg
- Italian language from 1993-98 at the Universita per
Stranieri in Perugia, Italy
- American Art song with Paul Sperry
- Composer Richard Hundley
- French melodie and German lieder with Dutch soprano
Elly Ameling,
- French baritone Gerard Souzay
- pianists Dalton Baldwin and Martin Katz
- German song cycles with Paul Mathes
- pedagogy with Richard Miller and Margaret Harshaw
- Choral conducting with Paul Christiansen.
Performance
Experience:
- Favorite roles include Daisy/Melinda in On A Clear Day
You Can See Forever, Lillie/Katherine in Kiss Me, Kate, Kathie in The
Student Prince and Adele in Die Fledermaus.
- Lake Charles, Louisiana Symphony
- Kansas City Starlight Theater with such notables as
Tony Award winners Robert Morse, Joel Gray and John Cullum
- Lyric Theater of Oklahoma, Oklahoma Theater
Center
- Oklahoma City Philharmonic Orchestra including its
POPS Series, "590" Series, Counterpoint Series and Young People’s
Concerts.
- Oklahoma Chamber Players
Professional
Organizations:
- Actors Equity Association
Teaching
Experience:
- Miss Kelly is a favorite performer/director for the
U.S.O. and Armed
Forces Professional Entertainment Office in
Washington D.C., for whom she has traveled over 750,000 miles for more
than 600 performances on eight tours of 20 countries in Europe, the Far
East and the Mediterranean.
- Three times a Regional Finalist in the Metropolitan
Opera auditions
What the Critics Say:
- Critics have referred to her voice as "warm, rich" and
"silver lyric... (with a) strong sense of theater."
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