About the Artists
Katherine Rossiter, soprano, a performer with diverse experience spanning from opera to musical theatre and oratorio to art song, is originally from Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania. This season, Ms. Rossiter appears as the soprano soloist with Classics on Hudson in Handel’s Messiah and in a staged production of Requiem for Anna Politkovskaya at the Richard B. Fisher Center for Performing Arts. This summer, she will be attending the Académie National d’été de Nice in Nice, France to work with Lorraine Nubar and Dalton Baldwin. The 2016-2017 season included her debut with the Grammy-award winning Albany Symphony Orchestra singing the soprano solos in Bach BWV 78: Jesu, der du meine Seele, an appearance with the Bard Baroque Ensemble singing the soprano solos in Vivaldi’s Gloria, conducted by James Bagwell, and a New York premiere of selections from Gregory Spears’ Owen Songs at the Morgan Library in NYC. Ms. Rossiter’s operatic roles include Morgana in Alcina, Le Feu/Le Rossignol in L’enfant et les sortileges with CCM Opera d’arte, Mabel in The Pirates of Penzance with the International Gilbert and Sullivan Festival, Drusilla in L’incoronazione di Poppea with the New York Lyric Opera Theatre, and Die Zweite Dame/Erste Knabe in Die Zauberflöte with the Bard Vocal Arts Program. Katherine Rossiter is an alumna of Dawn Upshaw’s Graduate Vocal Arts Program at Bard College-Conservatory of Music, as well as the University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music. For more information, please visit katherinerossiter.com.
Hailing from Huntington, Long Island, Mezzo-Soprano Mary-Elizabeth O’Neill is a graduate of The Juilliard School and Bard College Conservatory. This July, Ms. O’Neill will perform at the soundSCAPE festival, a Composition and Performer exchange in Cesena, Italy, and this August, she will also be performing the role of Nerone in L’Incoronazione di Poppea at the Berlin Opera Academy. She recently perfomed Schoenberg's "Das Buch der Hängenden Gärten" at Westminister Choir College and premiered Kyrie MacIntosh’s “Songs of Ariel” at The Juilliard School. Past Operatic Performances include The Old Lady in Candide with The Orchestra Now under the baton of James Bagwell, as well as the role of Eduige in Handel’s Rodelinda, conducted by Nicholas Gilmore. Barbarina in Le Nozze di Figaro, conducted by Miloš Repický, Greek Woman in Iphigénie en Aulide, conducted by Jane Glover, Third Lady and Third Boy in Die Zauberflöte, conducted by James Bagwell, Sally in Samuel Barber’s A Hand of Bridge, conducted by David Moody and L’Esprit in Massenet’s Cendrillion, conducted by Emmanuel Villaume.
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