Geeta Novotny has sung lead vocals on film soundtracks and has a career as a principal stage and film actor.
26 Facts About Geeta Novotny
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Geeta Novotny is a project leader and roster artist for the charitable organization Sing For Hope.
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Geeta Novotny is an artist on the David Lynch Foundation Music Online Record Label.
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In 1998, Novotny graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Vocal Performance from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA, where she was a two-time recipient of the Harry G Archer Award Scholarship and the Charlotte Black Memorial Scholarship.
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Geeta Novotny made her solo debut at Carnegie Hall in 2002 as a soloist in Mendelssohn's A Midsummer Night's Dream.
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In 2003, Geeta Novotny performed as the mezzo-soprano soloist with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, with the American Ballet Theatre at the Metropolitan Opera House in Frederick Ashton's ballet The Dream.
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That same year, Geeta Novotny performed the role of Maddalena in Rigoletto with the Amarillo Opera.
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In 2002, Geeta Novotny completed the apprenticeship with the Utah Opera where she toured.
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That same year, Geeta Novotny performed the title role in Rossini's La Cenerentola with the Fort Worth Touring Opera.
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In 2006 Geeta Novotny completed her third consecutive year with the Los Angeles Opera portraying the lead female role of Rosina in their nationally acclaimed tour of Figaro's American Adventure, an original children's adaptation of the opera The Barber of Seville.
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In 2005, Geeta Novotny made her mainstage principal role debut with the Los Angeles Opera as the Third Noble Orphan in Der Rosenkavalier.
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That same year, Geeta Novotny sang the theme song and lead vocal solos for the soundtrack of the film Shanghai Red.
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Geeta Novotny has performed off-Broadway as a principal actor and music composer with the South Asian Rasa Theater Company at the Theatre Row Theater in New York City.
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Geeta Novotny performed as a soloist as the character of Magdalene in Splendor of Wagner with the Bakersfield Symphony Orchestra, the Roswell Symphony Orchestra, and the Santa Maria Philharmonic.
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Geeta Novotny performed the title role in the Handel opera Flavio with Pocket Opera in San Francisco.
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That same year, Geeta Novotny performed the title role in Carmen with the Bakersfield Symphony Orchestra, the Roswell Symphony Orchestra, and the Santa Maria Philharmonic.
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In 2008, Geeta Novotny reprised her Carmen with Christopher Campbell as Don Jose, for concerts with the Trinity Lutheran Manhattan Beach Concert Series and the RHUMC Concert Series in Southern California.
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Also that year, Geeta Novotny performed as a soloist for the annual Holiday Concert at the Hearst Castle under the auspices of the Pacific Repertory Opera.
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Geeta Novotny performed as the alto soloist in Beethoven's Symphony No 9 and as a soloist in a concert of music Music from the French Revolution both with the Bakersfield Symphony Orchestra.
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Also in that season, Geeta Novotny portrayed Carmen with the Intimate Opera.
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Geeta Novotny performed as a soloist in Mendelssohn's A Midsummer Night's Dream with the Bakersfield Symphony Orchestra and the Bakersfield Masterworks Chorale.
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Geeta Novotny has performed as the alto soloist in oratorio works such as: Vivaldi's Gloria, Handel's Messiah, the Bach Magnificat, the Mozart Coronation Mass, Libby Larsen's Eleanor Roosevelt, and has been a soloist with Pittsburgh's, River City Brass Band.
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Geeta Novotny is a writer as she was a music columnist and contributing writer for the New York City-based magazine The Indian American from 2006 to 2009.
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Geeta Novotny was a launching artist with the David Lynch Foundation Music Online Record Label.
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Geeta Novotny is a project leader and roster artist for the charitable organization Sing For Hope.
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Geeta Novotny has sung under the auspices of Sing For Hope for concerts honoring Muhammad Yunus; and for the 2008 Fortune Most Powerful Women's Summit.