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Diana Tash (Born November 19, 1961) is an American Mezzo-Soprano, Specializing in Opera and Song repertoire. She as performed as a resident artist with hSan Diego opera and LA Opera as well as other regional orchestras. Mezzo-Soprano Diana Tash appears internationally in both operatic roles onstage and as a featured soloist. Most recently engaged by Festival Opera in the Jake Heggie Tryptich singing Camille Claudel in a staged performances at Lesher Concert Hall in August 2021. Upcoming release of a Bach Aria CD, coming out in 2022. Ms. Tash and the late renowned countertenor Brain Asawa  released their Baroque duet album “ Spirits of the Air”, preceded by a tour in Guadalajara Mexico at the Festival de Mayo in 2014. Teamed with famed pianist Armen Guzelimian] ( [https://www.armengpianist.com/ )performances have included solo recitals for Santa Barbara Opera in December 2011 and at Carnegie Hall in 2008 & Los Angeles’s Zipper Hall in 2006, from which a live recording, “Diana Tash, in Recital” was released in 2009 with LML records. Ms. Tash’s mezzo stage work has been hailed as “radiant” by the Los Angeles Times and “skillful” by the New York Times. Her solo work includes Mendelssohn’s Elijah( with Eric Owens in the title role) with the Los Angeles Master Chorale at the Walt Disney Concert Hall and Leonard Bernstein’s Jeremiah Symphony with the Akron Symphony in Ohio in 2009. Ms. Tash was a Resident Artist with LA Opera from 1992 to 96 singing with some of the major singers and conductors of our time. In a return to LA Opera in 2004 she sang Mercedes in Carmen with Mo.Placido Domingo, and sang with both San Diego Opera and Opera Pacific in 2006 and again in 2008 in Mozart’s The Magic Flute. She has also performed at the Aldeburgh Festival in England with Maestro Stuart Robinson and at the Aspen Festival with Maestro Lawrence Foster. Ms. Tash has performed with the Colorado Symphony(2018), LA Jewish Symphony(2018), & at the Boston Court with the California String Quartet in a semi-staged performance of Jake Heggie’s ‘Camille Claudel: Into the fire’(2014). A winner of the Western Regional Metropolitan Opera Finals She has also been heard with the Pacific Symphony as Annina in La Traviata in 2014 and with the Debussy Trio. She joined the Santa Barbara Choral Society in Handel’s Messiah in 2012, in Sacramento Opera’s Orlando as Medoro in 2010 and in Long Beach Opera’s Medea in February of 2011.