Mezzo-soprano, Sandra Piques Eddy
April 26th, 2008 by David Lee Simmons in Arts 
The Marriage of Figaro
$27.50-$133.50. Sat., April 26, 8 p.m.; Tues., April 29, 7:30 p.m.; Fri., May 2, 8 p.m.; Sun., May 4, 3 p.m. Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre. 2800 Cobb Galleria Parkway. 404-817-8700.
It shouldn’t come as a surprise that Sandra Piques Eddy (far right) has made Cherubino, the precocious pubescent pageboy of Mozart’s classic opera The Marriage of Figaro, a staple in her repertoire. After all, the character was the focus of her master’s thesis in music performance at Boston University, where she decided that moving from soprano into the lower range of mezzo-soprano would better fit her voice.
“Before I switched, I was auditing some classes, and I remember hearing one of the [two] arias by Cherubino,” the Boston native says of the 18th-century opera’s famous “pants” role, where a female plays a male. “And I thought, what a great aria. I even thought it was a soprano aria at first. But I thought to myself, ‘That would be so fun to sing an aria like that!’”
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