Praised for possessing a "glorious high voice", Soprano Lisa Archibeque has sung with Tijuana Opera, Lyric Opera San Diego, Annapolis Opera, Summer Opera Theatre Company, Richmond Symphony, Alexandria Symphony, Opera Camerata of Washington DC, Classics for Kids, San Diego Opera, Virginia Opera, Florentine Opera and Glimmerglass Opera.
In 2006, she portrayed Pamina in The Magic Flute with the Classics for Kids Philharmonic, performed First Fairy in Mendelssohn's A Midsummer Night's Dream with Richmond Symphony and sang Beethoven's 9th Symphony with Alexandria Symphony. Ms. Archibeque debuted as Fiordiligi in Mozart's Così fan tutte with Opera Theatre of Northern Virginia and was named their 2006 Artist of the Year. Other solo performances included appearances with Summer Opera Theatre as First Lady in Die Zauberflöte and soprano soloist in Annapolis Opera's 'A Night in Old Seville'.
As a concert soloist, she has sung in such works as Bizet's Te Deum and Vivaldi's Chamber Mass and performed with Opera Camerata of Washington D.C. and the Washington Metropolitan Philharmonic. In 2007, Ms. Archibeque sang Blanche DuBois' aria 'I Want Magic' from Previn's A Streetcar Named Desire with Alexandria Symphony.
Ms. Archibeque has merited awards and recognition on a national scale and was named 1st place winner in the Metropolitan Opera National Council District Auditions, as well as 1st place in the Patricia Goodbody Memorial Vocal Scholarship and The California Women's Chorus, Inc. She was a finalist in the Paul Robeson Vocal Competition in Washington, D.C. and earned finalist positions in the Virginia Hawk Vocal Competition and Palm Springs Opera Guild. Ms. Archibeque was a National Finalist prizewinner in the Annamaria Saritelli-DiPanni Bel Canto Competition in Rhode Island, as well as a National Finalist in the National Opera Association competition in New York City in 2007.
Early in her career, Ms. Archibeque attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in Pasadena, California, and earned her B.A. from the University of California at San Diego in theatre. A versatile performer in a variety of theatrical genres, Ms. Archibeque sang Martha Cratchit in A Christmas Carol and covered lead roles in El Paso Blue and Real Women Have Curves with the San Diego REPertory Theatre.
In 2004, Ms. Archibeque covered the roles of Jenny in Sir Richard Rodney Bennett's The Mines of Sulphur and Lady Ella in Sullivan's Patience as a member of Glimmerglass Opera's Young American Artist program. She sang in recital at The Fenimore Art Museum in Cooperstown and performed in 'Glimmerglass @ 30' throughout upstate New York. Immediately following, she was engaged in Virginia Opera's Spectrum Resident Artist Program where she sang the role of Handmaiden and covered Liù in Puccini's Turandot while touring as Gretel in Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel. She covered Marguerite in Gounod's Faust and sang Grouch in Kapilow's Green Eggs & Ham in 2005.
Her most recent engagements were Cossette in Vives' spanish zarzuela Bohemios with Opera Theatre of Northern Virginia, soprano soloist in Florentine Opera's 'Opera in the Courtyard' in Milwaukee and a return to Richmond Ballet as First Fairy in Mendelssohn's A Midsummer Night's Dream. As Frasquita in Summer Opera's production of Bizet's Carmen, Washington Post opera critic Anne Midgette wrote, “ . . . and Lisa Archibeque stood out in the small role of Frasquita, thanks to her firm and musical soprano."
Ms. Archibeque will appear at Casa Italiana in Washington, D.C. this October with tenor Antonio Giuliano in Omaggio a Pavarotti.
Updated 09-09
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