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Soprano Dara Rahming In Concert at Xavier Oct. 27

Soprano Dara Rahming In Concert at Xavier Oct. 27

Xavier faculty member Dara Rahming will perform in a faculty

recital on Monday Oct. 27 at 7:00 pm in the Music Building

Recital Hall. The concert is free and open to the public.

Rahming, accompanied by pianist and Xavier faculty member,

Dr. Wilfred Delphin, will perform music from Henri Duparc,

William Grant Still, and John Carter.

The Bahamian-born soprano is a 1995 graduate of Xavier. She

received a Masters of Music from the University of Miami.

Soon after completing her education she sang her first

contracted role in her native Bahamas singing the role of

Gina in the Bahamian Opera "Our Boys" composed by Cleophas

Adderley. "Our Boys", commissioned by the Bahamian government,

in 1998, for the celebration of the Bahamas 25th year of Independence

was a first for the country and a great success.

Since then Rahming has performed with numerous opera companies

in the United States and Europe. She's sung with the Lyric Opera of

Chicago and performed in the revival of Scott Joplin's "Treemonisha"

and the revision of Dominick Argento's "Miss Havisham's Fire"

with the Opera Theatre of St. Louis. In 2004 she sang the role of

Medora in Verdi's "Il Corsaro", with the Sarasota Opera and went

on to sing her first Tosca with the same company later that season.

The Sarasota Opera duly recognized her hard work by making her

the recipient of the Daniel R. Mandelker and Marlene N. Harris

Fund Grant. That summer she sang the role of Serena in the

Gershwin's "Porgy and Bess" at the Linz Landestheatre in Linz,

Austria. Later that year, she performed the same role at the

Bunkamura Orchestra Hall in Tokyo, Japan and the Alte Oper in

Frankfurt, Germany.