OPC Welcomes Dione Parker Bennett to join us in "Rediscovered Works: I, Too, Sing America - Part 2". Bennett appeared with us in the inaugural award-winning program in 2021, and we are thrilled to have her back with us.

Dione Parker Bennett's voice has been described as rich, fluid, silvery, and powerful. Her interpretative qualities and stage presence consistently enchant audiences. She made her Carnegie Hall debut with composer and conductor Stacey Gibbs and recently was featured with the Akron Symphony Orchestra and Maestro Christopher Wilkins singing Nkeiru Okoye's "I Am Harriet Tubman". Her ongoing performance career includes oratorio such as Handel’s Messiah, Fauré’s Requiem, Weill’s Cry the Beloved Country and Tippett’s A Child of Our Time. Her opera performances include the roles of Nedda in Pagliacci, Mimi in La Bohéme, Micaela in Bizet’s Carmen, and Bess in Porgy and Bess sung with many of the great symphony orchestras of the area. She continues as a recitalist, and an artist in appearances across the United States. She can be heard also as the soprano soloist in the premier recording of The Selfish Giant with the Erie Chamber Orchestra. She received her Doctor of the Musical Arts from the University of Illinois. and her Bachelor and Master of Music from the University of Akron. Since that time, she has taught at both university and center for the arts levels. While maintaining a thriving voice studio at Capital University Conservatory of Music, she is also the Director of Vocal and Choral studies at Ohio Christian University.

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for the January 15 performance at the Lincoln Theatre.