Daveda Karanas, mezzo soprano

An Evening of Orchestral Brilliance

The LaGrange Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Maestro Richard Prior, will perform their season finale concert on Tuesday, April 29, 2025 at 7:30PM in Callaway Auditorium, LaGrange, GA. This concert is titled “Music of the Night” and promises a powerful program of classical masterworks–featuring mezzo-soprano Daveda Karanas as special guest artist.

More about Daveda Karanas

Daveda Karanas, dramatic mezzo-soprano, made her Carnegie Hall debut singing Mahler’s 2^nd Symphony with Athens Philharmonic and her Spanish debut at Teatro Real as Liese in The Passenger, a role she has performed with Israeli Opera, Florida Grand Opera, Detroit Opera, and Lyric Opera of Chicago. Major role debuts include Kundry in Parsifal at Lyric Opera of Chicago, Ježibaba in Rusalka at Arizona Opera, Brangäne in Tristan und Isolde at Canadian Opera Company, Amneris in Aida at Arizona Opera, Azucena in Il Trovatore at Opera Grand Rapids, and both Waltraute and Second Norn in Götterdämmerung at San Francisco Opera. She made her German debut as Marfa in Khovanshchina at Oper Frankfurt and her European debut at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino as Judit in Bluebeard’s Castle. She is a Grand Prize Winner of the 2008 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. Future seasons will see her at Teatro Real, Hawaii Opera Theatre, Teatr Wielki Opera Narodowa, and City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra.