Lisa Vroman, soprano

Lisa Vroman starred for several years on Broadway as Christine Daae in The Phantom of the Opera. As Christine, she garnered theater critics’ awards in a record-breaking run in San Francisco, and did a return engagement at the Ahmanson Theater in Los Angeles. This past March, Ms. Vroman starred as Rosabella in The Most Happy Fella, making her New York City Opera debut with Paul Sorvino in the title role.

Her Broadway debut was in Aspects of Love, and she is the first to play both Fantine and Cosette in Les Miserables. For PBS she was featured with Colm Wilkinson and Michael Ball in Cameron Mackintosh’s Hey, Mr. Producer! at the Lyceum Theatre in London, a royal gala attended by Queen Elizabeth, and she sang the role of Johanna in the San Francisco Symphony’s Emmy award-winning Sweeney Todd in Concert, with Patti Lupone and George Hearn. Both are available on DVD. Ms. Vroman starred as Laurey in Oklahoma, filmed live in concert for the BBC Proms at The Royal Albert Hall in London.

Ms. Vroman recently starred as Mary Turner in Gershwin’s Of Thee I Sing/Let ‘Em Eat Cake in concert with Michael Tilson Thomas conducting the San Francisco Symphony and Chorus, directed by Pat Birch. Other roles include Laurie in The Tender Land at the Cabrillo Festival, Marin Alsop, conductor; Maria in The Sound Of Music with Tulsa Opera; Josephine in HMS Pinafore; Yum-Yum in The Mikado; Mabel in The Pirates of Penzance; and Anna 1 in The Seven Deadly Sins with the Utah Symphony. She has sung Maria in West Side Story, Guenevere in Camelot, Carrie Pipperidge in Carousel, and Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady, among others.

With a repertoire that ranges from Stravinsky to Weill to Broadway, Ms. Vroman is a frequent guest soloist in theater, and with opera companies and orchestras, including San Francisco, Philadelphia, Chicago, Atlanta, National, Vancouver, Cleveland, Pacific, Utah, Dallas, and the Boston Pops. Ms. Vroman made her debut at the Hollywood Bowl singing with Dick Van Dyke in a medley from Mary Poppins, a Disney 75th-anniversary celebration conducted by John Mauceri. Her solo CD, Broadway Classic, features Metropolitan Opera mezzo-soprano Stephanie Blythe. Ms. Vroman had the honor of singing at the Profiles in Courage Award dinner in Boston at the JFK Library, as a guest of the Kennedy family. She has also sung on separate occasions for Queen Elizabeth, former President Bill Clinton, and former Vice President Al Gore. She has previously performed with NYFOS in Hands Across the Sea (2006) and English Gardens, Earthly Delights (2006).