Current Ensemble Members

Sopranos

Geraldine Beneitez

Adriana Peri

Mariana Pino

Catalina Rodriguez

Rosemarie Ruiz-Houghton

Linette Tobin

Cara Transtrom-Bradley

Altos

Marisa Arbona-Ruiz

Pilar Casado

Alejandra Duran-Böhme

Lucie Giraud

Chris Herman

Leire Varela

Tenors

Guillermo Almada

John Turner

Luis Wanderlinder

Baritones/Basses

Fernando Delgado

Olivier Delille

Felix Fernandez-Pizzi

Malcolm Leith

Marisa Arbona-Ruiz is a singer/songwriter, filmmaker and film and television actress.  She has performed in concerts and festivals in the U.S. featuring blues, rock, folk, traditional and contemporary Native American, Mexican and Latin American choral music. 

Geraldine Beneitez, soprano, has been singing sacro and opera chorus with Lirica Complutense (Spain) and Bel Canto (Washington, DC). Her first engagement with Zarzuela Di Si was vendedora/ensemble in El barberillo de Lavapies following as Antigua/ensemble in La tabernera del puerto and as Rosita/ensemble in Luisa Fernanda.

Fernando L. Delgado (Lleida, Spain) studied music and guitar in the Madrid Conservatory and worked semi-professionally as a guitar player in several rock banks in the mid 70s. After many years in the active music’s dry dock, he started to play guitar and sing in the choir of Our Lady Queen of the Americas (Washington DC) in 1991. Currently he is the director of the youth hispanic choir at Nativity Parish in Burke VA and sings and plays with the hispanic choir of Our Lady Queen of Peace in Arlington VA. He also sings as a bass with Coral Cantigas (www.cantigas.org) and collaborates occasionally with the Bank–Fund Choir and musicians in the area.

Alejandra Durán-Böhme has been singing choirs in Bolivia, Denmark, London, Spain, and now DC.  Rosita/ensemble in Luisa Fernanda was her first engagement with Zarzuela Di Si. 

American tenor John Turner is a veteran of over 30 recent productions of opera, operetta, and zarzuela, appearing often in comprimario and character roles as well as coro.  He is a frequent oratorio soloist, tenor soloist in the professional quartet at St. Mary's in Washington, and also performs art songs and opera favorites in area chamber concerts.

Luis Wanderlinder, spinto tenor, is a native of Venezuela. He won first prize at the International Song Festival in Buenos Aires, Argentina and has performed internationally as a soloist.

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