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Twyla Robinson has consistently earned tremendous praise for her consummate musicianship, dramatic sensibility, and ravishing vocal beauty. She has performed with many of the world’s leading orchestras, including London Symphony Orchestra, Berlin Staatskapelle, The Cleveland Orchestra, and Los Angeles Philharmonic, singing under such conductors as Bernard Haitink, Pierre Boulez, Franz Welser-Möst, Esa-Pekka Salonen and Michael Tilson Thomas. This season, Ms. Robinson will be heard in performance with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in Der Rosenkavalier with Donald Runnicles and makes her Opera Colorado debut as the Countess in Le nozze di Figaro. Further performances include a gala concert with the Shreveport Symphony and Brahms’ Ein Deutsches Requiem at the Kennedy Center with Washington Choral Arts Society in honor of Norman Scribner’s final concert.
In the 2010–2011 season, Ms. Robinson made her debut with the New York Philharmonic in performances of Mendelssohn’s Elijah with Alan Gilbert and was heard in performance of Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 with Edo de Waart and the Milwaukee Symphony. She debuted with San Diego Opera as the Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier, was heard with the Atlanta Symphony and Robert Spano in performances of Janacek’s
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Twyla Robinson has consistently earned tremendous praise for her consummate musicianship, dramatic sensibility, and ravishing vocal beauty. She has performed with many of the world’s leading orchestras, including London Symphony Orchestra, Berlin Staatskapelle, The Cleveland Orchestra, and Los Angeles Philharmonic, singing under such conductors as Bernard Haitink, Pierre Boulez, Franz Welser-Möst, Esa-Pekka Salonen and Michael Tilson Thomas. This season, Ms. Robinson will be heard in performance with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in Der Rosenkavalier with Donald Runnicles and makes her Opera Colorado debut as the Countess in Le nozze di Figaro. Further performances include a gala concert with the Shreveport Symphony and Brahms’ Ein Deutsches Requiem at the Kennedy Center with Washington Choral Arts Society in honor of Norman Scribner’s final concert.
In the 2010–2011 season, Ms. Robinson made her debut with the New York Philharmonic in performances of Mendelssohn’s Elijah with Alan Gilbert and was heard in performance of Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 with Edo de Waart and the Milwaukee Symphony. She debuted with San Diego Opera as the Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier, was heard with the Atlanta Symphony and Robert Spano in performances of Janacek’s Glagolitic Mass in Atlanta and at Carnegie Hall and returned to the National Symphony for performances of Zemlinsky’s Lyric Symphony with Christoph Eschenbach. Ms. Robinson opened the season with New Jersey Symphony Orchestra in performances of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 and was heard in Brahms’ Ein deutsches Requiem with David Robertson and the St. Louis Symphony. In the summer of 2011, she was heard in performances of Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 with Robert Spano at the Aspen Music Festival.
In high demand for concert performances, Ms. Robinson regularly performs with top orchestras in the United States and Europe. She made her debut with the Los Angeles Philharmonic under the baton of Esa-Pekka Salonen in Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, which she has also sung with the San Francisco Symphony, Seattle Symphony, The Cleveland Orchestra, and the London Symphony Orchestra at New York’s Avery Fisher Hall and the Barbican Centre in London. The performance in London was released on the LSO Live label. A frequent soloist with The Cleveland Orchestra, her performances include Strauss’ Four Last Songs, Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass, Verdi’s Requiem, and Alice Ford in Verdi’s Falstaff. She debuted with the National Symphony in performances of Grieg’s Peer Gynt, and with the St. Louis Symphony in Rossini’s Stabat Mater. Further performances include Brahms’ Requiem, Handel's Messiah, Mahler’s Symphony No. 2, and Beethoven’s Christ on the Mount with Atlanta Symphony; Zemlinsky’s Lyric Symphony, Britten’s War Requiem and Mahler’s Das klagende Lied with Houston Symphony; and Brahms’ Requiem and the world premiere of Gil Shohat’s The Songs of Bathsheba with the Milwaukee Symphony.