Courtney Crouse, Soprano
Young American soprano, Courtney Crouse is a graduate of the acclaimed Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. During her tenure at Indiana University she became a champion of new music. She has recently performed in several premieres. In 2008 Ms. Crouse sang the role of Victoria Corelli, a morphine addicted mother, in the collegiate premiere of Bolcom’s A Wedding as well as Mrs. Gibbs in the world premiere of Ned Rorem’s Our Town, both at Indiana University. Balancing new music with more standard repertoire, Crouse has also portrayed Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro with Opera Ischia on the island of Ischia, Italy during the summer of 2007. She was also a young artist with Fort Worth Opera.
Ms. Crouse, a versatile performer, is noted for being an accomplished actress as well as singer. During the summer of 2008 Crouse was seen as Sharon Graham in the Tony Award Winning play Master Class with Heritage Repertory Theater. In addition, Ms. Crouse has also performed such musical theater roles as Amalia in She Loves Me, Anna Held in Tintypes, Anne Egerman in A Little Night Music, Connie Miller in 1940s Radio Hour, and the Step-Mother in Into the Woods. She was also in the critically acclaimed performance of Bernstein’s Mass as the Blues Singer at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. She is the featured soloist with the Nate Sutton Jazz Quintet.
Concert solo performances include Copland’s In the Beginning, Freund’s Six Songs from Passion with Tropes and Fear and Trembling Blues, Vaughan Williams’ Dona Nobis Pacem, Bernstein’s Chicester Psalms, and the Mozart C Minor Mass.
During her time at Indiana University Ms. Crouse portrayed Columbina in Busoni’s twentieth century opera Arlecchino, Josephine in H.M.S. Pinafore, and the Second Lady in The Magic Flute. Other roles include Musetta in La Bohème and the title role of Carlisle Floyd’s Susannah.
Courtney Crouse is a native of Fort Worth, Texas, and a graduate of Texas Wesleyan University and the prestigious Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. Ms. Crouse is in the final stages of her doctoral work at Indiana University where in 2011 will graduate as a Doctor of Music in Voice and Song Literature with minors in Stage Direction of Opera and Music History with a GPA of 3.9.
Ms. Crouse studies voice with world-renowned soprano Carol Vaness.
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Press Reviews
“…there are also moments of great lyrical beauty in A Wedding. I was especially moved by the sadly drug addicted mother of the groom, Courtney Crouse’s aria of her first love for the groom’s father, an Italian waiter.”
George Walker, WFIU
“Courtney Crouse lets both sides of her talent, acting and singing, shine.” ~Terrance McNally’s Master Class
Clare Aukofer, The Daily Progress, Charlottesville, VA
“A noteworthy performance was given by Courtney Crouse as Josephine Corcoran, the heroine, whose voice easily reached the highest notes in the opera and whose changes in mood were extremely convincing.” ~H.M.S. Pinafore
Adam Sedia, Indiana Daily Student