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Alumni Hall of Fame inductee Lynette Tapia Osborn is singing her way around
the world. As a world-renowned soprano, Tapia has performed in operas
throughout Europe and the United States.
Tapia is a 1991 alumnus
of San Clemente High School. A performer throughout her CUSD career, Tapia
was already winning awards, such as the Los Angeles Music Center Spotlight
Award, in high school before setting her sights for the opera stage following
graduation. She earned her bachelors degree in music from the Cleveland
Institute of Music. Tapia also studied at Yale University, as well as
the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara.
Despite her young
age, Tapia has already developed quite a career resume. She was the winner
of the 1996 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions and a winner
of the 1996 Concours International de Voix d'Opera Placido Domingo in
Bordeaux. Tapia has also won other awards including first prize in the
George London Foundation and Licia Albanese-Puccini Foundation vocal competitions.
Tapia has performed
on stage at the world's premier operas. She has represented Carnegie Hall
in a recital at the Palais des Beauz Arts in Brussels and performed at
the Washington Opera, Cologne Philharmonia, Musikverein in Vienna and
at the Birmingham Symphony Hall. In addition, she has sung with the Opera
Orchestra of New York and Washington Concert Opera and Opera Columbus,
just to name a few.
Nominated by her former
CUSD music teacher, Tapia serves as an outstanding representative of CUSD
and her community to students and people throughout the world. She is
a resident of Aliso Viejo with her husband and tenor John Osborn. She
often performs locally when in town. |