Paula Dione Ingram
Adjunct Instructor of Voice
Biography
Paula Dione Ingram is one of the finest lyric/spinto-singing actresses of our time. Noted for her considerable versatility, she is a winning performer whether on stage in her trained field of opera, musical theatre, cabaret; in front of the cameras for film/television; or as a successful voice teacher and performance coach, sharing her technique in-studio and master classes throughout the United States and abroad.
Ingram has sung extensively in Europe, particularly in Italy, Germany, Holland, Belgium and England. While in London, she made her West-End debut in the title role of Bizet/Hammerstein’s Carmen Jones to rave reviews. Her television credits are highlighted by a featured performance (in the role of Bess) of excerpts from Porgy and Bess for the 50th anniversary celebration of George Gershwin, which aired in England and on European television.
Her opera credits include performances with Glyndebourne Festival Opera, La Fenice Opera, and Kansas City Lyric Opera. Ingram made her debut with Glyndebourne Festival Opera in Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess where she covered the role of Bess (performed the role of Annie/Soprano Soloist). The cast recording was nominated for a Grammy: *Grammy Nomination Best Classical Album: Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess, EMI Records, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle (1991).
Her orchestral appearances of note include Birmingham, England Symphony, Indianapolis, St. Louis, Muncie and Detroit Symphony Orchestras. Including her debut at The Palladium Center for the Performing Arts in Carmel, Indiana, for the inaugural “Unity of Faith” Concert as the featured soloist for the United States debut of “Gloria” from the Mass Misa Tango under thebaton of Maestro Tércio Junker. In her hometown of St. Louis, Missouri, her credits include “Artist in Residence” with the Opera Theater of St. Louis, and in 1978 she brought home the gold as the winner of the Inaugural NAACP ACT-SO Competition in Portland, Oregon, in the Cultural/Performing Arts Division: Classical Voice.
Ingram is currently enrolled in the Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA Voice Performance) degree program at 51ԹϺ. She earned her Bachelor of Music (BM) degree from the University of Missouri at Kansas City Conservatory of Music in Voice/Opera Performance and her Master of Music (MM) degree from the famed Indiana University Jacob School of Music in Voice/Opera Performance, where she studied voice with Distinguished Professor of Voice, the late Madame Virginia Zeani.
She currently resides in Las Vegas where she is on faculty at the 51ԹϺ School of Music as Adjunct Instructor of Voice (opera, musical theatre, jazz and commercial music.)