Renee Sousa

Pasadena's Neighborhood Church was the setting for the Bach programme in which Renee Sousa appeared on 3 July 1996, one of the soloists with the Festival Chamber Orchestra in the cantata Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen, the Concerto for Two Violins in D minor and the keyboard concerto in the same key. Los Angeles has been her base. A soprano at home in opera and on the concert platform alike, she has sung Lolette in La rondine for Los Angeles Opera, the title role of Carlisle Floyd's Susannah for California Opera, Mimi for Arizona Opera, Donna Elvira for the Santa Barbara Grand Opera and Alexandra in Blitzstein's Regina for Opera Pacific at the Orange County Performing Arts Center, as well as Gertrude in Hansel and Gretel and Serpina in La serva padrona. Her concert work has taken in Barber's Knoxville: Summer of 1915 with the Los Angeles Symphonic Camerata, the soprano solo in Mahler's Eighth with the William Hall Master Chorale, Mahler's Fourth with the La Mirada Symphony and the Brahms German Requiem. She entered the Los Angeles Opera chorus in the 1997/98 season and left it 112 productions later. John Philip Sousa was a relation.