Dawn Marie Jamaican Soprano Come s To New Jersey

In Atlanta, Dawn-Marie is best known as a frequent performer with the Atlanta Opera, where she debuted in 1989 as Annina in La traviata. She has since been entrusted with a long line of second-female roles -- wives, mothers, best friends and maids-in-waiting -- usually with at least one demanding aria to perform. Simply includes the adolescent allegro "Non su piu" from Le nozze di Figaro and the first-feigned-then-felt romance of "La Canzone di Doretta" from La Rondine. Dawn-Marie has also performed solo engagements for the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, the Atlanta Chamber Orchestra, the Atlanta Bach Choir and other classical groups around Atlanta. Her art songs on Simply are the most impressive (and also the most numerous). Her quietly contained performance of Manuel de Falla's haunting lullaby, "Nana," is particularly masterful. Such songs have taken her around the world, but each summer she returns to Jamaica to teach and occasionally perform. There, she remembers the folk songs of her childhood and works to keep them alive.