REPERTOIRE HIGHLIGHTS 

ROLES – OPERA – MUSIC THEATRE (select list) 

Bellangère, Ariane et Barbe-Bleue, Dukas, The American Symphony Orchestra,

Leon Botstein, Conductor, David Geffen Hall, New York City 

Lady 3, The Secret Agent, Michael Dellaira, Center for Contemporary Opera, New York City 
 

Baroque and Early Opera Soloist

with Seattle Academy of Baroque Opera, Stephen Stubbs, Artistic Director

The New York Continuo, Grant Herreid, Music director, NY

 

Opera Soloist with Opera Vista, Viswa Subbaraman, Artistic Director - Conductor

Divergence Vocal Theater, Misha Penton, Artistic Director

 

Mercedes, Carmen scenes, Bizet, One World Symphony, Sung Jin Hong, Conductor, New York City 

Hansel, Hansel and Gretel, Humperdinck, The New Orleans Opera, 
MetroPelican Opera Education Tour, Carol Rausch, Music Director 

Shifrah, Moses, My Love, Paul Dick, Off-Broadway, The Judith Anderson Theatre, New York City 

Katchen, Werther, Massenet, The New Orleans Opera 

Flora, Pretty Baby, Hugh McElyea, Le Petit Thèâtre du Vieux Carré, New Orleans (Premiere) John Pascoe, Director, Set, Costume Designer

Cherubino, Le Nozze di Figaro, Mozart 

Julie, Show Boat, J. Kern, The Jefferson Performing Arts Society, Dennis Assaf, New Orleans 

The Witch, Into the Woods, Sondheim, The Rivertown Repertory Theatre, New Orleans, LA

(*Theatre Star Award and Storer Boone Best Supporting Actress nomination) 

Lucy Brown, The Three Penny Opera, Weill, Loyola University Theater

 

Helena, A Midsummer Night's Dream, William Shakespeare, The Paideia School 

 

One-act plays, acted, Loyola University New Orleans and The Paideia School 

SOLO PERFORMANCES – CONCERT – SACRED MUSIC (select list)

               

See Religious Services Experience 

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The Cathedral of St. Patrick, New York City, Msgr. Anthony Dalla Villa, rector 

Cathedral Liturgical Staff Cantor and Soloist 

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St. Paul's Methodist Church, Houston, Christopher Betts, Director of Music
St. Paul's Choir, Alto choir leader and soloist

​St. Theresa Catholic Church, Memorial Park, Fr. Phil Lloyd, Pastor
Cantor and soloist for masses, 2019 Renovated Church Dedication Mass 

- Cantor at the masses on pilgrimages to The Holy Land, Israel,
Cathedrals of Italy, Rome (Vatican) and Scotland and England

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Evening Taizé Prayer Services at The Chapel of St. Basil, Houston
Music, Liturgy, and Art direction. Sung, produced and directed by Lainie Diamond
Sponsored by The University of St. Thomas and Campus Ministry

HANDEL, G. F. 
Messiah

Performances include:

The Symphony Chorus of New Orleans and Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra,

first classical performance in New Orleans after Katrina) Steven Edwards, conductor. 

Choral Society of Pensacola, Xiaolun Chen, Conductor
Hercules 
Numerous solo arias performed in concert as Guest soloist

BACH
Magnificat (Middletown City Chorale, at The Paramount Theatre, New York) 
Solo arias performed in concert, soloist 

MOZART
Requiem (The Choral Society of Pensacola, Xiaolun Chen, Conductor) 
Vesperae solennes de Confessore
Solo arias performed as soloist 

MENDELSSOHN 
Elijah (The Oratorio Society of Queens, David Close, Conductor) 

RUTTER, John 
Feel the Spirit (Connecticut Master Chorale, Tina Johns Heidrich, Conductor) 

BECKER, Chris 
Songs performed live and recorded for concerts

(Including the recorded Singing Voice of the Fairy Godmother in choreographer Rachel Cohen's Racoco Productions, Dance-Theater work 'If the shoe fits' at Walkerspace, SOHO, and the Winter Garden-World Financial Center, NYC

(NY Times’ Top 10 Dance Performances of 2005 - John Rockwell) 

~ Jil Guyon's Award-winning film 'Widow': Lincoln Center Dance on Film Festival 2014 

(Currently touring international film festivals) 

WEILL, Kurt 
Songs performed in concert/shows, New York City (Performances with the Classical/Jazz quartet 'The Four Bags' include at BAM Cafe, Cornelia Street Cafe, St. Mark's Place, various venues, NYC. Recorded "Alabama Song", K. Weill, arr. Chris Becker for Four Bags' debut CD.

McCLURE, Glenn
St. Francis in the Americas- A Caribbean Mass (Connecticut Master Chorale) 

TALLIS, Thomas
Spem in Alium, Alto 2, Choir 2 solo voice line of the 40 solo voice epic Renaissance motet

(Houston Chamber Choir) 

CARISSIMI 
Arias in concert (The New York Continuo Collective) 

CAMPION 
Songs in concert (The New York Continuo Collective) 

FERRABOSCO
The Masque of Beauty: Arias in concert (The New York Continuo Collective) 

LAWES
Songs in concert

ROSSI, Luigi (Seattle Academy of Baroque Opera, Stephen Stubbs, Artistic Director)
Arias in concert 

 

EDUCATION – TRAINING - AWARDS
Loyola University New Orleans, BM Music and Theater minor (Music and academic scholarships)
Apprentice Artist: The New Orleans Opera
NYC Training: Acting, dancing, movement, languages, classes.
Laughter Ambassador Award, Laughter Yoga International, Dr. Madan Kataria, MD and founder (2020) 
Theatre Star Award: Role as The Witch in Into The Woods, Rivertown Repertory Theatre, New Orleans, LA
Outstanding Contribution to Musical Theatre Award, The Paideia School, Atlanta GA
Seventeen Magazine, Runway Model Search Winner, Atlanta, GA

VOICE TEACHERS – COACHES – DIRECTORS
Herbert Burtis (Lorraine Hunt Lieberson) Ellen and Philip Frohnmayer, Janet Pranschke
Carol Rausch, David Morelock, Joe Warfield, Stephen Stubbs, John Burrows, Earl Buys, Christopher Betts

RECORDINGS – FILM – TV – MEDIA    (select list) 

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Interior Castle – The Passion of Teresa of Avila, Chants, Arias and Hymns of Love (2021)
Album Produced by Lainie Diamond and mixed by Doug Henderson, Micro Moose Berlin, Germany
John Adams, On the Transmigration of Souls (Nonesuch) Grammy (New York Philharmonic, choral ensemble)
The Four Bags, Album (Alabama Song, Kurt Weill)
Film:

Jil Guyon, Filmmaker, Award-winning “Widow” Film Series (International Film Festivals) (Voice and Acting)
Mark Chen, Artist, “Windtopia” Production Series (Eva Sharp, Spokeswoman)
TV:

Great Day Houston! Houston Life! Newsfix 39, Houston Public Media
Houston Laughter Yoga: Lainie Diamond, founder and teacher of therapeutic breathing – movement sessions for all people (Acting and singing, breathing and movement teaching)

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PROFESSIONAL CHORAL ENSEMBLE EXPERIENCE (AGMA member) 

(small and large ensembles- Select list) 
 

Alto choir ensemble member (12 years) with: 

The New York Philharmonic, Kurt Masur, Lorin Maazel, Joseph Flummerfelt 

Early Music - Masterworks
AGMA member of The New York Choral Artists

New York Concert Chorale, New York Virtuoso Singers,

The Houston Chamber Choir 
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Lainie has sung as an Alto choir leader for the Jewish High Holy Days

(Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur)

including for congregations in New York City, NY, and New Jersey

Concerts with The New York Philharmonic conductors include: 

*Kurt Masur, Conductor 

Lorin Maazel, Philip Glass, Jane Glover, Marin Alsop, Sir John Neville Marriner 

Ricardo Muti, John Eliot Gardiner, Nicholas McGegan, Zubin Mehta 

Repertoire performed with The New York Philharmonic (small and large ensembles) include: 

Mozart Requiem, Handel Messiah,

Brahms Requiem, Tippet, Taverner, Mendelssohn, Bach, Stravinsky, Debussy, Rachmaninoff,

Tosca and operas in concert. 

Beethoven 9th Symphony, Missa Solemnis, Mass in C, 

Mahler Resurrection 

 

Lainie is also included in professional singer rosters including:

Conspirare (Alto), Craig Hella Johnson 

The Houston Astros, National Anthem singer roster. 

PBS Live From Lincoln Center films and recordings

The New York Philharmonic, Kurt Masur, Conductor, include: 
The Brahms Requiem for 9/11 
John Adams’ ‘On the Transmigration of Souls’ Nonesuch Records (Grammys) 
Special: 30 years of Live from Lincoln Center (PBS) 

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"Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement...get up in

the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted.

Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually.

To be spiritual is to be amazed."

from "God in Search of Man"~ Abraham Joshua Heschel, professor of ethics and mysticism

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