David Miller and Sarah Joy Miller to star in ‘La Traviata’, January 19 2013

La Traviata at the Palm Beach Opera

by Giuseppe Verdi

Friday, January 18, 2013 at 7:30 PM
Saturday, January 19, 2013 at 7:30 PM
Sunday, January 20, 2013 at 2:00 PM

Kravis Center for the Performing Arts (map & parking)

Glamorous courtesan Violetta Valery falls in love with the young heir of a distinguished family and gives up her luxurious lifestyle to be with him but their happiness is tragically short-lived. Based on Dumas’ novel La dame aux camelias, La Traviata is filled with drama, passion, and heartbreak set to Verdi’s most memorable melodies.

Single tickets go on sale July 1, 2012

CAST
Violetta: Joyce El-Khoury (1/18 & 1/20) / Sarah Joy Miller (1/19)
Alfredo Germont: Georgy Vasiliev (1/18 & 1/20) / David Miller (1/19)
Giorgio Germont: Michael Chioldi
Gastone: TBD
Flora: Shirin Eskandani
Baron Duphol: TBD

Here is Sarah Joy’s bio, from the Palm Beach Opera site -

SARAH JOY MILLER – VIOLETTA (1/19)
Sarah Joy Miller made her debut at Michigan Opera Theater in spring 2011 singing Gilda in Rigoletto and sees the release of an album of arias she recorded with the Pannon Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Maestro Steven Mercurio in Pecs, Hungary.

This follows a year filled with highlights, including appearances as Musetta in La Boheme at New York’s Symphony Space, Micaela in Carmen with New York Lyric Opera, and Violetta in La Traviata with Long Island Opera. She also performed in concert with Marcello Giordani in celebration of the newly created Marcello Giordani Foundation and was selected as a featured soloist with the St. Bart’s Music Festival. The year also brought Ms. Miller award recognition from the Licia Albanese-Puccini Foundation, the Gerda Lissner Foundation, the New York Lyric Opera Competition, and the Jensen Foundation.

Ms. Miller made her professional operatic debut singing Mimi in Baz Luhrmann’s acclaimed Broadway production of Puccini’s La Boheme and went on to reprise the role at the Ahmanson Theater in Los Angeles. She recently made her Hong Kong Opera debut singing a series of Opera Gala Concerts with the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra and has also appeared in venues across the United States as Fiordiligi in Cosi fan tutte, Marguerite in Faust, and the title role of Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor.

Ms. Miller’s musical collaborations and accomplishments reach well beyond the traditional scope of opera. Signed to Decca Records as part of the trio Three Graces, Ms. Miller recorded an album featuring production and song writing contributions by the finest producers in the pop music industry: Walter Afanasieff (Mariah Carey, Celine Dion), Desmond Child (Bon Jovi, Ricky Martin), Guy Roche (Christina Aguilera, Michael Bolton), and Mark Portmann (Luis Miguel, Barbra Streisand). Three Graces has performed throughout the United States, Canada, and Mexico, including an invitation to perform at a Youth Rally honoring Pope Benedict XVI’s visit to New York, and has made numerous televised appearances. Additionally, Ms. Miller has been heard with the Chicagoland Pops Orchestra and appeared as a soloist with Andrea Bocelli and David Foster at the Vivere release event.

Ms. Miller has been featured in concert performances of works including Orff’s Carmina Burana, Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Poulenc’s Gloria, Handel’s Messiah, and Carconi’s Gloria at the Bel Air Presbyterian Church, the Crystal Cathedral, and the California State University Northridge Theater. As a student at California State University Northridge, Ms. Miller was a finalist in the New York Metropolitan Opera Council Auditions (Los Angeles) and a finalist in the Los Angeles Artist of the Future competition. She earned prizes from the Palm Springs Opera Guild and was the recipient of the Elizabeth Parham Vocal Scholarship.

All details can be found at Palm Beach Opera

David and Sarah Joy Miller enjoy a day off

SJ tweeted this pic of her and David from Japan today, with the comment - On our way to Kyoto! 

Romeo et Juliette duet by David Miller and Sarah Joy Miller

David Miller and Sarah Joy Miller sing the Act 4 duet from Gounod’s Romeo et Juliette at the St. Barth’s Music Festival, January 2012

Sarah Joy Miller at the Palm Beach Opera Golden Jubilee

Sarah Joy performed at the Palm Beach Opera Golden Jubilee, at the Kravis Center in West Palm, January 20. Sarah Joy appears at two minutes.

This photo was taken backstage with soprano Angela Brown and Renata Scotto

Verona discovers the soprano Sarah Joy

A big party at the Philharmonic for the Verona Opera debut, the new opera club in the city, born from the ashes of the Greens and Zenatello circles. An afternoon of great music and with every reason to keep faith with good intentions for the future, a more prestigious venue such as the Philharmonic, the public has shown a lot to like, exhausting audience. It was a big afternoon party (there were also the assessors, Erminia Perbellini and Marco Padovani), thanks to a host of benefactors like Davide di Como, who knows how to lovingly (and jokingly) to entertain the audience with a lot of knowledge of the facts of the operatic repertoire. And as a pianist Andrea Albertin, who does not miss a single note in the accompaniment of the singers, even in the most tortuous of the score.

Five singers of a certain caliber presented themselves. Just out, the veterans of the Arena, the Uruguayan Carlo Ventre and the American Tichina Vaughn, last seen as companions in Aida. And with the work of Verdi, the two showed how to juggle well, using a concentration of wind worthy of notes, he did take measurements of the Amneris-Radames duet in unprecedented fourth place. She, without tonal opulence, an has a very strong voice and good articulation of the word, also demonstrated in other passages, by Adriana Lecouvreur, Ballo in Maschera, and Lohengrin. He knows very well the excitement of making dramatic and emotional attitudes of the act in confrontation with Amneris. But it was less convincing with Tosca and a Taberner from La del puerto.

The young David Cecconi, Sarah Joy Miller, and Ziyan Atfeh have contributed on their behalf to maintain the high quality of the remaining contribution fo the afternoon. The Tuscan Cecconi baritone is a very generous (its “the” in the final Courtiers, vile damned race never seems to end from Rigoletto), but also fine-grained voice. A real surprise has created the European debut of the young American Sarah Joy (blond, with body of a star), sopranino agile and easy high notes and insightful, accompanied by her husband off-stage tenor David Miller’s in La Traviata. Very interesting interpreter, who snatched prolonged applause. He closed down the Egyptian Atfeh Ziyan, a pupil of the great Mirella Freni, busy real obstacles in three Verdi opera – Macbeth and Attila Sicilian Vespers – passed with aristocratic rationality.

Original article in Italian larena.it