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The American-born soprano, Michelle Giglio, grew up in Garland, Texas. She had never intended to be a singer. A violin- and piano-performance major at Texas Christian University, in Fort Worth, Texas, she was on a path to becoming a violinist when a hand injury at the end of her junior year derailed her career trajectory. While working part-time for American Airlines, she decided to take advantage of free airline miles and apply to the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique, in Paris. Not only she received a full scholarship to the school, she landed her first professional gig as a soprano three years later.
In France Michelle Giglio performed under the name "Michelle Norman-Webb" with both the Orchestre National de France and the Orchestre Philharmonique de France, in addition to frequent live appearances on France Musique (French national classical music station). She is a member of SPEDIDAM in France. Recordings include: Iphigénie en Taurride by Gluck with Les Musiciens du Louvre/ Orchestre Chambre de Grenoble on the Deutsche Grammophon label (Archiv) Marc Minkowski, Conductor. She also toured Europe with the opera, performing at the Opéra National de Lyon, La Rampe (Echiroles), Auditorio Nacional de Madrid and the Amsterdam Concertgebouw. She recorded Leonard Bernstein's Chichester Psalms on the Erato label with the Orchestre Philharmonique de France. She also performed on Celine Dion’s album "S’il suffisait d’aimer" (Sony records), as well as in William Klein’s film Messiah.
Michelle Giglio returned to her native USA following several years of concerts, tours and recordings in France and throughout Europe. In the USA, she recently sang live music for the Sarasota Ballet in New York city at the Joyce Theatre. The New York times described her “singing with beauty and eloquence”. She also performed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City and was a semi-finalist in the Victor Elmaleh Young Artist Competition. She is member of the American Guild of Musical Artists.
Locally in Sarasota, Florida, Michelle Giglio has sung numerous local concerts with the Sarasota Orchestra, Gloria Musicae, now known as “Choral Artists of Sarasota”, Key Chorale, Artist Series of Sarasota, Anna Maria Island Chorus and Orchestra as well as the Sarasota Ballet. She has also performed themed concerts such as “Music&Art: Landscapes from the Age of Impressionism” at the Historic Asolo Theatre at the John & Mable Ringling Museum and has also performed at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Local performances in Florida: “The Chopin Project” with the Artist Series of Sarasota, with Matthew Graybil, Pianist; Christopher Wheeldon's There Where she Loved with the Sarasota Ballet @ the Sarasota Opera House; Francis Poulenc’s Gloria with the Southwest Florida Symphony, Ft. Meyers, Florida, W.A. Mozart's
Grand Mass in C Minor with the Sarasota Orchestra and Gloria Musicae at the Sarasota Opera House, Richard Einhorn’s Voices of Light with Key Chorale & Sarasota Orchestra at the Sarasota Opera House. Other local concerts include: With a song in my Heart concert with the Florida Orchestra, Dvorak’s Te Deum with the Southwest Florida Symphony & Chorus, Carmina Burana with the Southwest Florida Symphony, Sarasota Orchestra, Key Chorale and Sarasota Ballet; W.A. Mozart's Exultate Jubilate and J.S. Bach's Cantata BWV 51 with the Sarasota Orchestra; J.S. Bach's Cantata BWV 84, George Frideric Handel's Messiah and “Der hölle rache” from W.A. Mozart's Magic Flute with the Anna Maria Island Chorus and Orchestra as well as the Sarasota Pops. She has also performed W.A. Mozart's Regina Coeli, J.S. Bach's Matthäus-Passion BWV 244, Johannes-Passion BWV 245 & Weihnachts-Oratorium BWV 248rio. Recent recitals in Southwest Florida are “Impressionism” in conjunction with the Ringling Museum of Art, The Artist Series of Sarasota, Pelican Cove, Guitar Sarasota (performing Songs of Benjamin Britten and Schubert), Sarasota Music Archives and Bee Ridge Presbyterian Church.
Recent roles include: Zerlina from W.A. Mozart's Don Giovanni with the St. Petersburg Opera & Florimezzo Orchestra in St. Petersburg, Florida. She also performed with the Center City Opera in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where she sang the role of Curly’s wife in their production of C. Floyd’s opera, as well as Violetta in AMICO’s Production of Verdi’s La Traviata in Anna Maria Island, Florida. |
