Soprano, Demetra George, was nominated for a 2002 Grammy Award for her CD album "Demetra George Sings Love Arias" along with a solo nomination for her rendition of The Merry Widow Waltz. She has just completed a very successful run as Violetta Valery in La Traviata for Nevada Opera Theatre after appearing as their Mimi in La Boheme in 1998.
 

Miss George, who sang in Carnegie Hall last year in an opera concert sponsored by Classical Productions, now has three CDs: Grammy list CD, "DEMETRA GEORGE SINGS LOVE ARIAS"; a two CD set of Opera and Broadway, "BY GEORGE, SHE'S GOT IT";  and "DEMETRA GEORGE-A MEDITERRANEAN JOURNEY" popular songs of Greece, Italy, Turkey, Israel, Spain and France.

In May of 2006, Miss George appeared in a concert entitled  A MEDITERRANEAN JOURNEY at Merkin Hall in NYC where she sang Opera, Broadway, Movie Favorites and songs from Israel, Greece and Turkey. She received a standing ovation and critical acclaim. She returned to the Orange County Four Seasons Orchestra in September as guest soloist in a tribute to 100 years of Broadway after her show-stopping Viennese night last year. She was heard in June in "Music of the Silver Screen" for the Culver City/Marina del Rey/Weschester Symphony, in a Palm Beach recital and in a gala to benefit Pacific Repertory Opera of San Luis Obispo.

Miss George boasts a repertoire of more than 20 opera and operetta roles and 18 music theater roles, and is equally at home singing Mimi, Violetta, Guenvere, Eliza or operetta selections with symphonic pops. The versatile singer was awarded a scholarship to the Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York and was first-place winner in the San Francisco Opera western region auditions.

She has sung with groups as diverse as the Sofia, Bulgaria, State Theater Orchestra, Japanese Philharmonic and the Fundacion Musicale de Honduras, and her roles include Mimi and Musetta in La Boheme, Violetta in La Traviata, Lucia in Lucia di Lammermoor, Rosalinda in Die Fledermaus, the three heroines in Les Contes d'Hoffmann, Hanna in The Merry Widow, Maritza in Countess Maritza and soprano soloist in the Andrew Lloyd Webber Requiem.

Miss George has performed with opera companies in Boston, Houston, Tampa, Oklahoma City, Palm Beach, San Francisco, Long Beach, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, and Ft. Lauderdale, and with orchestras in Wichita, Houston, Myrtle Beach, Tacoma, Tulsa, and throughout the states of Florida and California. She has been featured on both CBS, NBC, and PBS television in selections from musical theater and opera.

In addition, Demetra has performed at the MonteLago Village at Lake Las Vegas for Opera Under the Stars for three years and is invited back in 2007 to reappear as the lead soprano soloist on the floating stage built for Andrea Bocelli. She has performed opera and Broadway often at the Bellagio, Monte Carlo, MGM Grand, Paris, Venetian, Ritz Carlton, Caesar's Palace, and Wynn hotels for the Nevada Opera Theatre as their guest artist. And Miss George has performed several times to the delight of the audience for guests of the famed Everglades Club on Palm Beach in concerts with Dr. Jack W. Jones.

Florida Governor Lawton Chiles and Oklahoma Governor Frank Keating honored her for her efforts as organizer of the "Help for the Heartland with Love from Florida" Concert, which benefited victims of the Oklahoma City bombing. Miss George is a former Miss Oklahoma.

In her time offstage, Ms. George teaches voice and has had the distinguished honor to have had young students in Broadway lead roles and national tours for ANNIE GET YOUR GUN, BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, FALSETTOS, GREASE, THE KING AND I, LES MISERABLES, LION KING, INTO THE WOODS, SOUND OF MUSIC, WICKED, and WONDERFUL TOWN. She specializes in teaching children and began with her very own girls.

Ms. George appears with the Glendale (CA) Symphony in December as soprano soloist for their Holiday Concert. January takes her to Los Cabos, Mexico in a 4th year reprise of her Night at the Movies Concert; In February, she appears as onstage soloist for Nevada Opera Theatre Opera Gala; March finds her in Florida at the Eissey Theatre and April and May find her on tour in S. California and Mexico once again. June heralds her famous role of Hannah in THE MERRY WIDOW for Nevada Opera Theatre where she is resident soprano. July George is overseas for summer Festivals and late September finds her once again at the brilliant Lake Las Vegas festival OPERA UNDER THE STARS for NOT.

Prepared by Patricia Minton, Classical Performing Artists Management, San Diego.