CAMILLE SHERMAN
MEZZO-SOPRANO
BIOGRAPHY
Camille Sherman is a versatile mezzo-soprano bringing beautiful tone and strong dramatic instincts to a wide variety of repertoire across North American stages. This season, she joins Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden as an Ensemble Artist, where she will sing the title role in Offenbach’s Fantasio, Rosina in Il barbiere di Siviglia, Mercédès in Carmen, Marcellina in Le nozze di Figaro, and in their Salon Strozzi. Last season she was a member of the OperAvenir studio at Theater Basel in Switzerland, where she sang Roßweiße in Die Walküre, Rosina in Il barbiere di Siviglia, Ceprano/Page in Rigoletto, Mercédès in Carmen, and the title role in Mignon. In recent seasons, Ms. Sherman sang Jess in the American premiere of Missing with Anchorage Opera and she was seen onstage at the Metropolitan Opera competing as a National Semifinalist in the Laffont Competition after winning the Northwest Region.
Ms. Sherman has distinguished herself as a Rossini singer with débuts as Rosina in Il barbiere di Siviglia with Pensacola Opera and Opera Idaho and as Angelina in La Cenerentola with Tri-Cities Opera and Syracuse Opera. Ms. Sherman also joined Des Moines Metro Opera’s Apprentice Artist Program, performing in Platée, Queen of Spades, and Sweeney Todd. Previously, Ms. Sherman completed her second season in the Portland Opera Resident Artist Program, where she was seen on their main stage as Kate Pinkerton in addition to covering Suzuki in Madama Butterfly, Sally in A Hand of Bridge, Announcer in Gallantry, and Asteria in the American professional premiere of Vivaldi's Bajazet. Previous credits with Portland Opera include Flora Bervoix in La Traviata and Ramiro in La finta giardiniera, as well as covering Hannah After in As One and Rosina in Il barbiere di Siviglia.
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Ms. Sherman has been featured at Pensacola Opera as an artist-in-residence, performing the role of María in María de Buenos Aires and the Housekeeper in Man of La Mancha, in addition to covering Aldonza in Man of La Mancha and Suzuki in Madama Butterfly. Ms. Sherman returned to Pensacola Opera in 2019 to make her role début as Stéphano in Roméo et Juliette. Other roles include the Komponist in Ariadne auf Naxos (Berlin Opera Academy) and Hermia in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Janiec Opera Company). On the concert stage, Ms. Sherman has appeared with Nashville Opera and the Pensacola Symphony Orchestra and débuted with Naples Philharmonic as soloist in Handel’s Messiah.
Ms. Sherman garnered acclaim in several recent competitions, including Third Prize in the Grand Junction Symphony Young Artist Competition (2023) and recognition as a Finalist in the Premiere Opera Foundation International Vocal Competition (2022). She was a finalist in the Giulio Gari Foundation International Vocal Competition, Tier 1 of the James Toland Vocal Arts Competition, and Brava! Opera Theater Competition. She is a two-time winner of the Kalvelage Memorial Award in the Henry and Maria Holt Competition and secured the Jorge Estebanez Scholarship from The San Francisco Conservatory of Music.
During her vocal training, Ms. Sherman was in residence at the Janiec Opera Company and at OperaWorks. Ms. Sherman holds degrees in Vocal Performance from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music (MM), where she studied with Catherine Cook, and Boston Conservatory (BM).
Current as of September 1, 2024
CRITICAL ACCLAIM
"Camille Sherman is...simply breathtaking.” - Echo Online
The Barber of Seville – “Camille Sherman is on a par as the imprisoned lover, but prefers to let her Rosina shine with delicate tones. The way she seamlessly combines comedy and coloratura as a double act is simply breathtaking.”
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"Camille Sherman is a fabulous Rosina..." – Der Opernfreund
The Barber of Seville – “Camille Sherman is a fabulous Rosina with a bright mezzo-soprano voice, also with stupendous bel canto qualities.”
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"Camille Sherman portrays...Rosina with fine spirit and playful wit." – Nürnberger Nachrichten
The Barber of Seville – “Vocally, there are no compromises...Camille Sherman portrays her fabulous Rosina with fine esprit and playful wit.” - Nürnberger Nachrichten
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"Camille Sherman...shone with [her] clear, flexible and warm coloratura.” - Die Nachrichten
Fantasio – “The soloist ensemble impressed the audience with brilliant performances. Particularly outstanding [was] Camille Sherman as Fantasio...who shone with [her] clear, flexible and warm coloratura.”
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[Sherman is] refreshingly diverse." - Oper Magazine
Fantasio – “In Wiesbaden, it is obviously necessary to turn the trouser role into a female role, which Camille Sherman embodies with great enthusiasm while remaining refreshingly diverse.”
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"[Sherman] painted her pain in sounds that make you feel it." – Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Salon Strozzi – “In 'Lagrime mie’, [Sherman] painted her pain in sounds that make you feel it. Especially when the sobbing coloratura of this aria is so sensitively reproduced and enhanced with improvisations as by Camille Sherman in the music theater Salon Strozzi, which premiered in the main auditorium of the Wiesbaden State Theater.”
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"A balance of character and dramatic function with a clear, accurate voice and fine presence." – SF Classical Voice
La Finta Giardiniera – “Mezzo-soprano Camille Sherman was affecting as this Ramiro, managing a balance of character and dramatic function with a clear, accurate voice and fine presence.”
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“Camille Sherman’s plummy mezzo...” – Opera Today
Rameau’s Platée – “Camille Sherman’s plummy mezzo served up a Thalie with great abandon.”
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"Her voice brought all the nuances of this role to life in the most beautiful way." – Das Opernmagazin
Mignon – "Camille Sherman was heard as Mignon. What a sensitive portrayal of this role. Her voice brought all the nuances of this role to life in the most beautiful way. The romance in the first act "Connais-tu le pays" was one of the highlights of the evening."
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"[H]er sensitive and colorful lyrical moments." – BZ Basel
Mignon – "Camille Sherman in the title role made a lasting impression with her dramatic top notes as well as her sensitive and colorful lyrical moments."
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"Camille Sherman's...resources enable her to compose an increasingly endearing character..." – ResMusica
Mignon – "...both also display impeccable French diction. The same can be said of Camille Sherman's Mignon, whose resources enable her to compose an increasingly endearing character, from the elegiac Connais-tu le pays to the jealous fury of Elle est là, près de lui."
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