| Phyllis Elliott, a classical singer,
actress, writer, and linguist, has performed at Los Angeles' Music Center,
Hollywood Bowl, and Mark Taper Forum, and in 1991 made her international
recital debut at the Midsummer Festival of Music and the Arts in Swanage
(U.K.). She has sung choral performances with Zubin Mehta, Robert Shaw,
and Carlo Maria Giulini, and has been featured soloist in concerts co-produced
by Exsultate! Productions and the Musicians Union Music Performance
Trust in affiliation with the Los Angeles Festival/Fringe. She also appeared
as the narrator in Peter and the Wolf with the Los Angeles Philharmonic
at the Music Center.
Local stage engagements
have included Picnic and Othello at the Morgan-Wixson Theater;
My Fair Lady with Santa Monica Civic Light Opera; Trelawney of
the Wells, at Beverly Hills Community Theater; Seven Keys to
Baldpate, with Theatre Unlimited at The Complex; Amateurs, with
Palos Verdes Players; Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella at the
Redondo Beach Performing Arts Center; Angel on Broadway (written
by NPF member Alice Lunsford) at the Lehman Engel Music Theater Workshop;
and I Henry IV, in which she sang ("enchantingly" - Los Angeles
Times) melodies composed by the historic King Henry, arranged and
set to a classic Welsh text for inclusion in the play.
Ms. Elliott's poetry was featured
in the inaugural episode of Poets' Chamber on Beverly Hills TV, and placed
in the final round of the 1997 Writers Foundation annual competition, as
did her entry in the children's picture book division. She wrote and
produced The Ring of Steel at the Mark Taper Forum in 1987 and is
the creator of Aria 51, a television series targeted for cable and
PBS.
Ms. Elliott headed the original creative writing team
contributing articles to www.luxurylink.com.
She performs regularly with Casa
Italiana Opera Company in Los Angeles, where her more than 20 roles have
included Musetta (La Boheme), Papagena (The Magic Flute), Laura
(La Gioconda), Nedda (Pagliacci, and Violetta (La Traviata).
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