Outside Voices at Waterloo Park
Join us on October 8th for Outside Voices at Waterloo Park featuring Sandra Mercado and Ana Moiseeva! This concert of operatic selections and more will delight audience members of all ages.
Bar opens at 1:30, concert starts at 2 pm
This event is free, open to the public, and appropriate for all ages. The venue is the Meredith Tree Deck of the Family Pavilion just South of the Moody Amphitheater in Waterloo Park. Floor space and chairs will be available. Pillows, blankets, and picnics are highly encouraged. Complimentary beverages will be available thanks to our amazing sponsor, Tito's Vodka! Big thanks to our media sponsor for these events, KMFA 89.5 Classical Austin, and to the support of Waterloo Greenway!
Sandra Mercado
After making her debut at the Teatro Nacional in the Dominican Republic where she sang excerpts of Aida, Madama Butterfly, and Il Trovatore with Metropolitan Opera Tenor, Francisco Casanova, the country’s national newspaper El Nacional described Sandra as possessing “a beautiful, crystal clear, and powerful voice”.
She has performed with the Orquesta Sinfónica de Puerto Rico, the New Jersey Symphony, and the NY Philharmonic among others in venues like Carnegie Hall, Bellas Artes, Symphony Space, NJPAC, and Congress Graz Stefaniensaal. An avid recitalist, her 2019-20 season included a lecture tour with pianist Laura Ahumada where they explored the influence of Spanish Music in The Americas. The tour included engagements in several cities including New Jersey, New York, and San Antonio, Texas.
Sandra was also invited by Dietlinde Maazel to commemorate Maestro Maazel’s passing at the Castleton Festival singing Tosca with great success. She did 2 collaborations with the American Opera Project (AOP) and MMH; a new opera “The Rat” by composer Wang Jie, and the role of Patience in “Patience and Sarah” by composer Paula M. Kimper. The COVID-related cancellations halted plans to perform Beethoven’s 9th at the Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart Cathedral Concert Series, and a series of Cuban Music recitals at The Music and Mentoring House’s Concert Series in NYC. Her 2023-24 season includes a recital at UTEP in collaboration with El Paso Opera, private fundraising concerts in Austin, as well as recitals at Music and Mentoring House’s Concert Series in NYC.
Some of her signature roles include Giselda in I Lombardi, Leonora in Il Trovatore, Giovanna in Giovanna D’Arco, Aïda, Desdemona in Otello, Donna Elvira and Donna Anna in Don Giovanni, Contessa D’Almaviva in Le Nozze di Figaro, and Tosca.
Ana Moiseeva
Ana has been working with Italian, Russian and English operas, which are Mozart’s Don Giovani, Le nozze di Figaro, and The Magic Flute, Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore, Lucia di Lammermoor, Britten’s Turn of The Screw, Dove’s Mansfield Park, Tchaikovski’s Eugene Onegin; The Queen of Spades, Bizet's Carmen, Offenbach's The Tales of Hoffmann, Puccini's La Boheme, and Verdi's Falstaff, Traviata, Rigoletto.
Ana Moiseeva is a D.M.A. student at the Butler School of Music and Butler Opera Center TA in Music Performance/Opera Coaching. She came to the US in August 2019 from Georgia to pursue her dream of becoming an opera coach. Before coming to the US, she was an accomplished piano accompanist in Georgia and Europe. The choirs which she used to accompany were awarded with titles of “best choirs” all over Europe.
Ana herself was recognized as the best choir accompanist in Georgia. She fell in love with opera as a child, when upon hearing Mozart's Don Giovanni she was pulled towards the magical world of music. Don Giovanni, by a turn of fate, was the first opera she worked on at Butler Opera Center as an opera coach, 25 years after seeing it for the first time.