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Roza Tulyaganova
Institution: Mississippi State University
Country: United States
Soprano Roza Tulyaganova, DMA, is a native of Uzbekistan. Since moving to the United States in 2000, she has traveled extensively, performing major and supporting opera roles in cities across the country. Dr. Tulyaganova completed her Master of Music degree at the Manhattan School of Music in 2007 and holds a Doctorate of Musical Arts from Stony Brook University. Dr. Tulyaganova has performed roles with many opera companies throughout the East Coast. These include Lauretta in Gianni Schicchi with Mississippi Opera, Musetta in La Bohème with Cantiamo Opera Theatre in New York, Micaëla in Carmen with the Brooklyn-Queens Conservatory, Livia in L’Italiana in Londra, La Ciesca in Gianni Schicchi with Manhattan School of Music Theater, and Elle in La voix humaine by Poulenc with Opera Manhattan. From 2002-2004, Dr. Tulyaganova performed in numerous productions with Opera Las Vegas, including Mimì in La Bohème, the title role in Lakmé, and Frasquita in Carmen. With the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, she has sung the roles of Rosalinda in Die Fledermaus and Lola in Gallantry. Her Fiordiligi at Hubbard Hall Opera and her Countess in Capital Opera have been warmly acclaimed.
Dr. Tulyaganova has appeared as a soloist in many concert engagements, including Ralph Vaughan Williams’ Sea Symphony with the Starkville Symphony, Brahms’ A German Requiem with the Las Vegas Music Arts Orchestra, Handel’s Messiah with the Las Vegas Philharmonic Orchestra, and a Russian Music Recital with the Las Vegas Russian Trio. Dr. Tulyaganova is the winner of multiple notable awards. These include being a two-time district winner at the Metropolitan National Council Auditions, a district winner of the 2002 NATSAA competition, a winner of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas concerto competition, and a finalist in the Meistersinger Competition in Graz, Austria.
Dr. Tulyaganova has directed multiple operas and operatic scenes. Most recently, she was the Assistant Stage Director to Thaddeus Strassberger at Bard College SummerScape Festival in New York for their production of Demon by Anton Rubinstein, Oresteia by Sergey Taneev, and in Ekaterinburg, Russia, for the production of Philip Glass' Satyagraha. Dr. Tulyaganova is fluent in several languages and frequently works as a language coach. Most notably, she was an Italian language educator at Middlebury College’s distinguished summer program and worked as the principal Russian language coach for Dicapo Opera’s production of Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta. In Summer 2018, Dr. Tulyaganova was the principal coach for the production of Demon by Rubinstein at the SummerScape Festival. She has taught voice at Stony Brook University in New York; McLennan Community College in Waco, TX; and The Tashkent National Music College in Uzbekistan. Dr. Tulyaganova is currently an Associate Professor of Voice and the Director of Opera at Mississippi State University.
Areas of expertise: Higher education, foreign language coaching, opera direction, vocal performance.
Dr. Tulyaganova has appeared as a soloist in many concert engagements, including Ralph Vaughan Williams’ Sea Symphony with the Starkville Symphony, Brahms’ A German Requiem with the Las Vegas Music Arts Orchestra, Handel’s Messiah with the Las Vegas Philharmonic Orchestra, and a Russian Music Recital with the Las Vegas Russian Trio. Dr. Tulyaganova is the winner of multiple notable awards. These include being a two-time district winner at the Metropolitan National Council Auditions, a district winner of the 2002 NATSAA competition, a winner of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas concerto competition, and a finalist in the Meistersinger Competition in Graz, Austria.
Dr. Tulyaganova has directed multiple operas and operatic scenes. Most recently, she was the Assistant Stage Director to Thaddeus Strassberger at Bard College SummerScape Festival in New York for their production of Demon by Anton Rubinstein, Oresteia by Sergey Taneev, and in Ekaterinburg, Russia, for the production of Philip Glass' Satyagraha. Dr. Tulyaganova is fluent in several languages and frequently works as a language coach. Most notably, she was an Italian language educator at Middlebury College’s distinguished summer program and worked as the principal Russian language coach for Dicapo Opera’s production of Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta. In Summer 2018, Dr. Tulyaganova was the principal coach for the production of Demon by Rubinstein at the SummerScape Festival. She has taught voice at Stony Brook University in New York; McLennan Community College in Waco, TX; and The Tashkent National Music College in Uzbekistan. Dr. Tulyaganova is currently an Associate Professor of Voice and the Director of Opera at Mississippi State University.
Areas of expertise: Higher education, foreign language coaching, opera direction, vocal performance.
