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Chanda has enjoyed an ongo­ing col­lab­o­ra­tion with soprano Rebecca Nelsen, includ­ing a con­cert pro­gram depict­ing Shakespeare’s women, numer­ous record­ings and con­certs and a touch­ing trib­ute to com­poser Wal­ter Arlen.

As depicted below they thor­oughly enjoyed work­ing with pho­tog­ra­pher Max­i­m­il­ian Van Lon­don.
Pho­tos: Max­i­m­il­ian Van London

The Inter­na­tional press has rec­og­nized her for being “Dev­as­tat­ingly on-target”, “cap­ti­vat­ing”, “multi-faceted”, “both vocally and the­atri­cally very capa­ble of trans­for­ma­tion”, “a tal­ented actress who also vocally leaves no wish unful­filled” and crit­ics have hailed her voice as “cap­ti­vat­ingly beau­ti­ful”, “bril­liantly nuanced,” “lumi­nous,” and most recently: “The young soprano Rebecca Nelsen’s agile, bright soprano voice knows no bound­aries in the col­oratura and loves bel canto. Rebecca Nelsen is devel­op­ing into a lyric soprano of stature with excep­tional col­oratura flu­id­ity who exhibits an enor­mous stage presence.”

Young, Amer­i­can lyric col­oratura soprano Rebecca Nelsen has already sung in such pres­ti­gious venues as the Musikverein in Vienna, Aus­tria, the Gorki The­ater in Berlin and the Kawasaki and Biwako halls in Japan and she recently made her debut at the Vienna Volk­soper as Julia de Weert, Olivier Tambosi’s cel­e­brated pre­miere of the operetta Der Vet­ter aus Dingsda. She also made her debut at the Sem­per Oper in Dres­den this past sea­son as Adele in Die Fle­d­er­maus and as Sophie Fan­i­nal in Der Rosenkava­lier under the baton of the acclaimed Mae­stro Fabio Luisi.

Rebecca began the 2009–2010 sea­son as the tragic cour­te­san, Vio­letta Valéry in a pro­duc­tion of her favorite opera, La Travi­ata, at the Gran Teatro La Fenice in Venice, Italy. She then sang the same role at the Sem­per­oper in Dres­den in a new pro­duc­tion of La Travi­ata later this sea­son. Rebecca’s other roles for this sea­son inculde Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro and Blond­chen in Die Ent­führung aus dem Serail at the Sem­per­oper in Dres­den. She will also reprise her role of Julia de Weert at the Volk­soper in Vienna this sea­son in addi­tion to other con­cert and record­ing engage­ments through­out Europe.

Rebecca began her pro­fes­sional career in Vienna, singing sev­eral lead roles with the Neue Oper Wien under the baton of Wal­ter Kobera – includ­ing co-productions with the Klang­bo­gen Fes­ti­val and the Bre­gen­zer Fest­st­piele. Rebecca recently fin­ished her sec­ond sea­son as a soloist in the ensem­ble of the State Opera in Brunswick, Ger­many under the musi­cal lead­er­ship of the renowned Mae­stro Alexan­der Joel. In Braun­schweig, Rebecca cel­e­brated critically-acclaimed débuts as Gilda in Rigo­letto, Musetta in La Boheme, Sophie in Der Rosenkava­lier, Blond­chen in Die Ent­führung aus dem Serail, die Tochter in Cardil­lac, Eurilla in Orlando Pal­adino, Stasi in Die Csar­das­fürstin, as well as the pants-role Ippolito in Fedra by Johann Simon Mayr.