Lori Mirabal: With Warmest Regards

Opera singer Lori Mirabal will present a personal journey in music and talk. She will describe how she became an artist, and discuss her life, her influences and the songs that inspired her.
Lori Brown Mirabal, a native of Tennessee and now a Maplewood resident, is a graduate of the University of Memphis with a Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Arts. She also has a Master’s Degree in Voice Performance from Manhattan School of Music where she received a scholarship from Oprah Winfrey.
She has sung many roles in many places, including Shenyang, China where she was a featured soloist in an international New Year’s Eve Gala sponsored by the United States and China Foundation. She also appeared with Opera Ebony on a PBS “Great Performance” television documentary entitled Aida’s Brothers and Sisters which discusses the lives of African Americans in opera. Ms. Mirabal has sung a variety of roles in concert halls, opera houses and theatres throughout the United States and abroad including New York City Opera (as Carmen), L’Opera De Monte Carlo (Lola/Cavalleria Rusticana), Dicapo Opera Theatre (Lucretia/The Rape of Lucretia), State Repertory Opera of New Jersey (Augusta/The Ballad of Baby Doe), Central City Opera (Tituba/The Crucible), Carnegie Hall (Soloist/West Side Story Suite), and Broadway’s Gershwin Theatre (Queenie/Showboat).
She also created a series of children’s programs called “Opera for the Very Young” which she performs throughout New York and New Jersey, and her own company for children, Opera Soup. She teaches music at Kent Place School.