Biography
Heather Dials (Soprano) began her professional career at the age of twelve as Flora in The Santa Fe Opera production of "The Turn of the Screw." She was accepted at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia at the age of seventeen, the youngest voice student accepted to date since Anna Moffo. Dials made her New York, Alice Tully Hall debut at the age of twenty-one while still a student at the Curtis Institute of Music. She has shared the stage with many of today’s biggest names in opera including, Luciano Pavarotti, Juan Diego Florez, Anna Netrepko, Eric Owens and Stephanie Blythe to name a few.
Ms. Dials has performed principle roles with the Opera Company of Philadelphia, Santa Fe Opera, San Francisco Opera, Skylight Opera Theater, European Opera Center International tour, San Francisco Opera’s Merola National Tour, San Francisco Symphony, Savannah Symphony, West Virginia Symphony, and New Mexico Symphony Orchestra. On the concert and opera stage Dials has sung under the baton of conductors including, Leonard Bernstein, Edo de Waart, Michael Tilson Thomas, and Maurizio Barbacini. She has received acclaim for her portrayal of operatic heroines including, Contessa Almaviva in Le Nozze di Figaro, Rosina in Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Mimi and Musetta in La Boheme, Lauretta in Gianni Schicchi, Elizabeth in Tannhauser, Juliette in Romeo and Juliette, Marguerite in Faust, Gilda in Rigoletto, Anne Trulove in The Rakes Progress about which Opera News wrote, “Ms. Dials was sublime in the slower, melancholy passages. Her last act lullaby was ravishing.” As Rosina in Il Barbiere di Siviglia, the Chicago Tribune remarked, “Taking all the high options in una voce poco fa, Dials delivered this tour de force with personal touches but without self-importance.”
Dials has won numerous awards and competitions including the Metropolitan Opera National Council auditions, first place in the Rosa Ponselle International Competition, first place in the Mario Lanza Competition. She was a recipient of the Sullivan Foundation Career Grant and Nominated for the prestigious Richard Tucker Career Grant. She has been heard in several live broadcasts for the Opera Company of Philadelphia and featured in the press by Opera America.
Ms. Dials has performed principle roles with the Opera Company of Philadelphia, Santa Fe Opera, San Francisco Opera, Skylight Opera Theater, European Opera Center International tour, San Francisco Opera’s Merola National Tour, San Francisco Symphony, Savannah Symphony, West Virginia Symphony, and New Mexico Symphony Orchestra. On the concert and opera stage Dials has sung under the baton of conductors including, Leonard Bernstein, Edo de Waart, Michael Tilson Thomas, and Maurizio Barbacini. She has received acclaim for her portrayal of operatic heroines including, Contessa Almaviva in Le Nozze di Figaro, Rosina in Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Mimi and Musetta in La Boheme, Lauretta in Gianni Schicchi, Elizabeth in Tannhauser, Juliette in Romeo and Juliette, Marguerite in Faust, Gilda in Rigoletto, Anne Trulove in The Rakes Progress about which Opera News wrote, “Ms. Dials was sublime in the slower, melancholy passages. Her last act lullaby was ravishing.” As Rosina in Il Barbiere di Siviglia, the Chicago Tribune remarked, “Taking all the high options in una voce poco fa, Dials delivered this tour de force with personal touches but without self-importance.”
Dials has won numerous awards and competitions including the Metropolitan Opera National Council auditions, first place in the Rosa Ponselle International Competition, first place in the Mario Lanza Competition. She was a recipient of the Sullivan Foundation Career Grant and Nominated for the prestigious Richard Tucker Career Grant. She has been heard in several live broadcasts for the Opera Company of Philadelphia and featured in the press by Opera America.
