BIOGRAPHY
HIROMI OMURA (Soprano)
Japanese-French soprano Hiromi Omura has developed her international career as “a true singing actress: each performance brings fresh nuances and feels inhabited”(Australian Book Review) with “her singing, powerful, seamless and exquisitely beautiful” (North Shore Times).
In 2023, Ms. Omura returns to Manitoba Opera for 50th Anniversary Opera Gala Concert and makes her New Orleans Opera debut as Cio-Cio-San.
In the summer of 2021, Ms. Omura returned to Puccini Festival ( Italy/ Torre del Lago) as Tosca. In 2022, She returned to Tokyo for Marriage of Figaro as Countess Almaviva at the Tokyo Bunka Kaikan and Madama Butterfly at the New National Theater Tokyo both for Tokyo Nikikai Opera.
In the summer of 2019, Ms. Omura returned to Torre del Lago for Puccini Festival as Cio-Cio-San. During the 2019-2020 season, she returned to Tokyo for a world premiere Madama Butterfly; stage directed Amon Miyamoto, costume by Kenzo Takada. She portrayed a deeply moving Cio-Cio-San and her performance has been broadcasted on TV around Japan by NHK. Another highlight is her debut in USA as Cio-Cio-San at the Portland Opera. She was highly acclaimed also as Violetta in La Traviata at the Tokyo Bunka Kaikan for Tokyo Nikikai Opera. she appeared also in Estonia at the Vanemuine Theater in Tartu as Cio-Cio-San. Performances canceled due to COVID-19 included a return to Estonia at the Estonia National Opera and a return to Australia at the Melbourne Arts Center.
During the 2017-2018 season, Ms. Omura appeared as Cio-Cio-San at Manitoba Opera as well as Latvian National Opera, Tokyo Nikikai Opera and Finnish National Opera. Meanwhile she was highly acclaimed also in the title role of Norma at the Orchard Hall in Tokyo with Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Riccardo Frizza.
In the summer of 2018, Ms. Omura made her debut in Italy as Cio-Cio-San at the Puccini Festival in Torre del Lago.
Ms. Omura has performed Cio-Cio-San (Madama Butterfly) receiving great acclaim, around the world with companies such as the New National Theatre Tokyo, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Opera Israeli (Tel Aviv), Montreal Opera, Malaga, Cordoba, Santander, Metz (France), Lausanne Opera, Polish National Opera (Theatre Wielki), Savonlinna Opera Festival in Finland, Sydney Opera House, Melbourne Arts Center, Teatro Municipal Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, Latvian National Opera, Finnish National Opera, Vanemuine Theatre in Estonia, Manitoba Opera, Portland Opera and Puccini Festival at Torre del Lago in Italy.
She can be seen in 2 DVD filmed live of Madama Butterfly; the first directed by Moffatt Oxenbould and the second directed by Alex Ollé, both released by Opera Australia.
In the concert, Ms. Omura has sung the Deutsches Requiem (Brahms) at the City of London Festival with the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Tadaaki Otaka; Symphony No. 9 (Beethoven) with Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo Philharmonic and Orchestre symphonique de Nancy; Missa Solemnis (Beethoven) with the Tokyo City Philharmonic; Mass in C Minor (Mozart) with the Tokyo Philharmonic; Messiah (Handel) with l’Orchestre de Picardie; and A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Elijah (Mendelssohn) both with the Orchestre National de France under the baton of Kurt Mazur.
She has been invited regularly for operatic gala concerts including Opéra de Montréal, the Latvian National Opera, New National Theatre Tokyo and Manitoba Opera. Ms Omura sings often at the NHK New Year Opera Concert, broadcast on live TV nationwide in Japan. CD of Beethoven Symphony No.9 that she sang soprano solo with Tokyo Symphony Orchestra has been released from King Records Japan.
Other highly acclaimed roles include Elisabetta (Don Carlo), Micaëla (Carmen) and Nedda (I Pagliacci) in New National Theater Tokyo, Leonora (Il Trovatore), Amelia (Simon Boccanegra) and Liu (Turandot) in Montreal Opera, Ariadne (Ariadne auf Naxos) at the Pasific Music Festival in Sapporo, Silvia (Zanetto/Mascagni) and Countess Almaviva (Marriage of Figaro) in Opera National de Lorraine and Tokyo Nikikai Opera, Sieglinde (Die Walküre) at the Biwako Hall in Japan, Tosca in Tokyo Nikikai Opera and Puccini Festival. Norma (Bellini) for Lausanne Opera and Toulon Opera; Desdemona in Toulon Opera, Montreal Opera and Opera National de Lorraine.
After obtaining her Master of Arts in singing at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, she moved to Italy, training in Mantua and Milan. She then transferred to France to join the Opera Studio CNIPAL in Marseille.
She was the 1st prize winner in the Concours International d’Opéra de Marseille (2001) and won prizes in international competitions such as the Concours International de chant de Paris (Paris), Belvedere Competition (Vienna), Concorso Ismaele Voltolini (Buscoldo/Italy), Concorso Gianfranco Masini (Reggio Emilia/Italy), among others. Ms. Omura is resident in France.
