About Alissa Grimaldi

Member: Actor’s Equity
Contact:
212-679-3461
AlissaGrimaldi@mac.com

Alissa Grimaldi is a soprano who has performed the major operatic roles as well as having appeared in musical theater. She has extensive experience as an actress and a dancer as well as a singer.
Alissa is a vocal technician with over twenty years of experience using a student-focused technique. She received her academic training at Sacramento State and has studied in the studio of Jacqueline Victorino.

Alissa’s many operatic roles include: Lucy, The Telephone; Perichole, La Perichole; Musetta, La Boheme; Pamina, Die Zauberflote; Countess Almaviva, The Marriage of Figaro; Susanna, Marriage of Figaro; Mimi, La Boheme.

Her musical theater roles include: Maria, West Side Story; Eliza, My Fair Lady; Desiree, A Little Night Music.

Her theatrical roles include: Lisa, Man in the Gray Flannel Suit; Amanda, Time Remembered; Nora, A Doll’s House; Annabelle, Annabelle Broom; Filumena, Filumena; Amanda, Private Lives.

Height: 5’ 3”
Weight: 125
Hair: Dark Brown/Auburn
Eyes: Dark Brown

EDUCATION
B.A. Psychology, California State University, Sacramento
B.M. Music, California State University, Sacramento

SPECIAL TRAINING: VOICE
Marie Gibson, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
Donna Roll, New England Conservatory, Boston, MA
Jacqueline Victorino, Sacramento, CA

SPECIAL COURSES
Eileen Farrell, Castine, ME
Galt Sirguey, New England Conservatory, Boston, MA
Ben Bard, School of Acting, Beverly Hills, CA

PERFORMANCES: Opera/Operetta/Musical Comedy
Bonnie, The Princess Bonnie
Butterfly, Madama Butterfly
Countess Almaviva, The Marriage of Figaro
Desiree, A Little Night Music
Despina, Cosi Fan Tutti
Eliza, My Fair Lady
Fiordiligi, Cosi Fan Tutti
Gasparina, La Canterina
Kitty, Kitty Leroy
Laetitia, The Old Maid and the Thief
Lauretta, Gianni Schicci
Lucy, The Telephone
Mabel, Pirates of Penzance
Madame Silverthroat, The Impressario
Maria, West Side Story
Mary, Casey At The Bat
Menotti, Amahl and the Night Visitors
Micaela, Carmen
Mimi, La Boheme
Musetta, La Boheme
Najade, Ariadne Auf Naxos
Norina, Don Pasquale
Serpina La Selva Padrona
Pamina, Die Zauberflote
Patience, Patience, Gilbert and Sullivan
Perichole, La Perichole
Rosalinda, Die Fledermaus
Serpina, La Selva Padrona
Sister Genevieve, Suor Angelica
Susanna, Le Nozze Di Figaro
Susanna, Marriage of Figaro
Tuptim, The King and I
Ursula Merkle, Bye Bye Birdie
Verdi, Scenes from La Traviata

PERFORMANCES: Recitals
De Falla, Siete Canciones populares Españolas
Pamina, Concert Version of Die Zauberflote
Zerlina, Concert Version of Don Giovanni

PERFORMANCES: Soloist
Albert, The Flower of the Mountain
Bach, Coffee Cantata
Bach, Passion According to St. John
Bach, Peasant Cantata
Bach, Weichet Nur, Betrubte Schatten
Bachianas Brasilieras
Beethoven, 9th Symphony
Brahm’s Requiem
C. Saint Saens, Oratorio De Noel
Carmina Burana
Faure, Requiem
Faure, Requiem
Flower of the Mountain
Griffes, Three Poems of Fiona MacLeod
Handel, Messiah
Handel, Sing Unto The Lord
Haydn, The Creation
Holst, Hymn to Jesus
Mozart, Exsultate Jubilate
Pamina, Die Zauberflote
Purcell Comfort Ye Sons of Art
Strauss, Vier Letzte Lieder
The Mother of Us All, Camellia Symphony
Verdi, Requiem

PERFORMANCES: DRAMATIC
Colombine, Colombine and Pierrott
Lisa, Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
Amanda, Time Remembered
Nora, A Doll’s House
Annabelle, Annabelle Broom

PERFORMANCES: DIRECTED
La Boheme
Die Fledermaus
Scenes from La Traviata
Manon
Various scenes for numerous concerts for the Jacqueline Victorino Vocal Studio

AWARDS/HONORS
First Place, Miss San Bernardino Contest, CA
First Place, Miss Rancho Cordova, CA
Best Actress in a Play, California State University, Sacramento
Best Actress in an Opera, California State University, Sacramento
Winner, Saturday Club Opera Scholarship, Sacramento, CA
First Place, Merola Regionals, Sacramento, CA
Best Actress, Annabelle, Annabelle Broom, Volcano Theater, Volcano, CA