Upcoming Performances

For a current schedule of her upcoming concert, recital and opera performances in the Los Angeles metropolitan and Central Florida areas, proceed to Elizabeth Harmetz' performance pages at ElizabethHarmetz.com. Elizabeth Harmetz is an actively working professional singer who performs regularly throughout Southern California and Central Florida.

Solo Operatic concerts and recitals

• Ms. Harmetz is currently accepting engagements and booking for her Solo concert series.

Opera Gala - Palladium Theater, St Petersburg

Past Performances

Operas

• Red, White, & Blue Contemporary Opera of Los Angeles, Hermosa Beach. Playhouse Theater, 710 Pier Avenue, Redondo Beach

• Elizabeth sang as Susanna, the faithful maid of the Countess and bride-to-be of Figaro in Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro (Le Nozze di Figaro). During the 2003-2004 CFLO season. Ms. Harmetz also sang her first pants role as Cherubino, a youthful and amorous page. The opera was sung in Italian with English recitative at select locations throughout Central Florida.

• Ms. Harmetz sang the soprano lead Rosina in the 2002-2003 production of Rossini's opera The Barber of Seville. The opera was sung in English and Italian and ran for 4 weeks from November 9th to December 8th. Elizabeth opened the opera at the Helen Stairs Theater, Sanford and closed the show at the Ormond Beach Performing Arts Center in Ormond Beach.

• The Merry Widow operetta followed The Barber of Seville and played from March 8th to March 30th. Licia Albanese had both stage directed the operetta and coached the cast. Harmetz played the role of Valencienne at both the Helen Stairs Theater in Sanford and at the Ormond Beach Performing Arts Center in Ormond.

• Bella Baroque, Central Florida's acclaimed baroque music troupe, was featured in the Music Around the World program at the First Presbyterian Church of Orlando on October 7th. Ms. Harmetz was a featured soloist.

Concerts

Elizabeth starred as Mimi in a highlights production of Puccini's La Boheme with Opera Pasadena - Ella Lee, founder & Barbara Ebert, music director Pacific Asia Museum - Recital Hall on Sunday, April 6 at 2:30pm

An afternoon of Opera - The Culver City Senior Center on Wednesday, May 7 at 2pm

Performances

CATS! Harmetz was heard singing High Soprano at the Fullerton Civic Light Opera production of Cats! This production, at Fullerton’s Landmark Plummer Auditorium, featured a strong ensemble and "Broadway and National Tour Star" Mary Gutzi as Grizabella.

February 17 - March 5th
All Thursday, Friday, Saturday's 8 PM, Sunday 2 PM
Sunday February 26th 2 PM & 7 PM, Saturday March 4th 2 PM & 8 PM

Central Florida Tour of Amore at varied venues including Westminster Towers, Chambrel of Island Lake, Village on the Green, and The Villages.

The Southern California Tour of Amore included various venues as Sunrise of Beverly Hills, Pacific Inn of Torrance, Grand Oaks, Old Ranch Country Club, Sunrise of Hermosa Beach, Jewish Home for the Aging, Culver West, Sunrise of Playa Vista, Ocean House ofSanta Monica

Amore and Romanze at Kingsley Manor, The Village at Sherman Oaks, Sunrise of Pacific Palisades, Grand Oaks, The Canterbury, and JHA Jewish Home for the Aging

December 8 Christmas is Here with THE SERAPHIM 8pm
The Path Bookstore 310-944-3780
813 Torrance Blvd., Redondo Beach, CA 90277

August 26, 5pm Festival Service, St. Marys Palms, 3647 Watseka Ave, Los Angeles, 90034

September 14 Summer Nights at the Opera Grandview Palms, Culver City 6:30pm

June 10, Best of Broadway, Grandview Palms, Culver City

May 18, Opera Night, Grandview Palms, Culver City

Throughout the Summer of '05 Harmetz could be heard evenings as a featured soloist at the Bella Notte concerts at the picturesque Portofino Bay Hotel, Universal.

On September 17, At the Double Tree Hotel, Orlando, Harmetz could be heard at the Delightful Night Concert also starring Kettia Cherenfant, Savery, and Pastor Ronald.

Bella Baroque, Central Florida's acclaimed baroque music troupe, was featured in the Music Around the World program at the First Presbyterian Church of Orlando on October 7th. Ms. Harmetz was a featured soloist.

Harmetz's Central Florida public debut was at the Hacienda Hills Country Club in The Villages, where she performed in regular concerts. She has also performed in concerts at the Savannah Center, also in the Villages. Other concerts throughout the 2002-2004 seasons took place at Spruce Creek (Summerfield), Kingsridge (Clermont), Helen Stairs Theater (Sanford), Palladium Theater (St. Petersburg), Henegar Center for the Arts (Melbourne), The Plantation (Leesburg), Harbor Hills and the Orlando Country Club.

Harmetz's private Solo Concert debut was at the Westminster Towers on September 6th. Other repeat private concert engagements have taken place at the University Club of Winter Park, the Orlando Country Club, Winter Park Towers, Village on the Green (Orlando & Longwood), The Mayflower (Winter Park), Chambrel at Island Lake (Longwood) and the Orlando Lutheran Towers.

She has previously sung each Sunday morning as the resident soloist at the 1st Church of Christ in Leesburg, Florida.

On April 16 the members of the California Club in San Francisco sponsored a special performance of the Opera Bastien and Bastienne by Mozart. Harmetz sang as Bastienne and also directed the opera.

On April 14, Harmetz sang selections from Monteverdi's Vespers in a concert in San Francisco, at the National Shrine of St. Francis in North Beach. She was joined by Greta Larson, soprano, Jessica Blinn, alto and several other singers from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and surrounding areas.

In a very merry and much lighter role, during the windy yet warm Holiday Seasons in San Francisco, Harmetz could also be discovered as a featured member of a Dickens of a Caroling Group called the Mistletones.