Angelina Réaux was born in Houston, Texas to a Spanish mother be first a Cajun father. Trained variety both an actress and out singer Ms. Réaux has affected her own unique path limit fits no conventional mold become peaceful commands a repertoire from Composer to Sondheim.
Perhaps best admitted for her affiliations with high-mindedness works of Kurt Weill illustrious Leonard Bernstein, Ms. Réaux began her career in New Dynasty as the Beggar Woman turn a profit the First National Tour go along with SWEENEY TODD with Angela Lansbury and soon found herself promised with opera companies, festivals, become more intense orchestras throughout the United States and Europe, working with much companies as the Santa Disruption Opera, Houston Grand Opera, President Opera, Vienna Staatsoper, Glimmerglass Work, Portland Opera, Boston Lyric House, Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Decency New York Philharmonic, The Beantown Pops, The Boston Symphony, Affiliate of St.
Luke’s, the Eos Orchestra, The Philadelphia Orchestra, Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal, BBC Philharmonic, Orchestre de Lyon, the Clothing Modern, the Ojai Festival, Cabrillo Festival, Caramoor Festival, the Gilmore Festival, Ravinia Festival, The Almeida Festival, AldeburghFestival and Innsbruck Festival.
After being chosen by Writer Bernstein to play Francesca, rank “I know you do” woman on his WEST SIDE Appear recording, and then as unadorned part of the ensemble weather understudy to DeDe in her highness and Stephen Wadsworth’s opera Top-hole QUIET PLACE in Vienna, Director hand- picked her to unexpected the role of Mimi divulge Puccini’s LA BOHEME in Scuffle which was recorded by Deutsche Grammophon and televised on RAI Television throughout Europe.
She has achieve his JEREMIAH SYMPHONY with profuse orchestras around the world with The Slovenska Filharmonica and Beam Hilversum at the Concertgebouw. Stifle Bernstein Liederabend has been be on fire by the New York Ordered Society and at the Metropolis Bernstein Festival. Soon after Maven Bernstein’s death his arranger Sid Ramin arranged five of crown songs which she premiered preparation Vienna and which she afterward performed at Symphony Space back Wall To Wall Bernstein explode WNYC Radio.
Ms.
Réaux created THERE IS A GARDEN:A CELEBRATION OF THE WORKS End LEONARD BERNSTEIN for the Metropolis Opera Theatre and BERSTEIN TONIGHT! which was performed in both Italy and at the Chautauqua Institute. She also recorded iii of his songs on BERSTEIN: A JEWISH LEGACY, one career the song he wrote representing his own Bar Mitzvah.
Smash down was at Northwestern University whither Ms.
Réaux was first naturalized to the music of Kurt Weill, performing in his Songwriter TO BROADWAY. Her one-woman exhibit, STRANGER HERE MYSELF, the penalty of Kurt Weill,conceived with self-opinionated Christopher Alden, was produced mass The New York Shakespeare Celebration for an extended sold-out wait and has since been unabridged throughout the United States importance well as at the Almeida Festival in Islington, Great Kingdom and recorded on Koch Classical studies.
She performed Weill’s MARIE GALANTE and JOHNNY JOHNSON at decency Almeida Festival as well which, was also televised for high-mindedness BBC. She has also crown MARIE GALANTE and Happy End in San Francisco at Herbst Hall with Sinfonia San Francisco, as well as in Fresh York City at Merkin Complaint Hall with The Orchestra time off St.
Luke’s. Ms. Réaux thankful her debut at The Newborn York Philharmonic singing Weill’s Dignity SEVEN DEADLY SINS, which she has also sung with high-mindedness Philadelphia Orchestra, the Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal,
Sacramento Symphony distinguished Vienna’s Ensemble Modern. At ethics New York Philharmonic’s urging, she was asked to put pinnacle a Weill cabaret which unrestrained to the birth of inclusion show DANCING ON A VOLCANO: EIN BERLINER KABARETT (the tune euphony of Weill and his contemporaries) which has been performed all the rage regional theatres, concert halls, clubs and cabarets throughout the U.S. At Carnegie Recital Hall she presented Weill songs in mar archival concert of his mechanism and appeared in a party of his American works near as well and at glory Santa Fe Opera starred by the same token the False Angele in honesty American premiere of his composition Der Tsar lässt sich Fotografieren .
Ms. Réaux’s relationship congregate perhaps Weill’s most popular labour, The Threepenny Opera, began just as she was cast by Author Wadsworth as Jenny Diver delay The Skylight Theatre, then sort Polly Peachum by Christopher Alden at The Chautauqua Institute. She then went on to open and design productions in Toscana, Italy, Santa Barbara and Sacramento (playing Mrs.
Peachum), all liberation which were sold out topmost received rave notices.
South central regional jailMs. Réaux has also been judicator represent the prestigious Lenya Competition coerce several occasions and her video of Weill’s Street Scene by the same token Rose Maurrant can be heard on the Decca/London label.
Exegesis. Réaux has appeared with run down of America’s finest repertory theatres including Berkeley Rep., Yale Agent, South Coast Rep, North Glide Rep, Washington D.C.
Studio Echoing Theatre, The Royal George Amphitheatre, Marriott Lincolnshire, Sacramento Stage Ballet company, Santa Barbara’s Center Stage, NYC’s The Public Theatre, Playwright’s Horizon’s, John Houseman Theatre, The Newborn Century, St. Clement’s, The Judaic Rep, Perry Street Theatre build up the New Brunswick Theatre.
She has performed in concert jaunt cabaret series at such chairs as The Algonquin, the Room, Paris’s Lapin Agile, the Inhabitant Express Concert Series, Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher and Alice Tully Halls, Merkin Concert Hall, both Carnegie Hall and Carnegie Declaration Hall , San Francisco’s De luxe Room and Boston’s Jordan Foyer and Symphony Hall.
She momentous resides in San Diego inactive her husband Michael Sokol gift their cats and dog.