Mary Beth Nelson | mezzo-soprano
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2020

Scalia/Ginsburg
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​​Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Music and Libretto by Derrick Wang

Thursday, March 19 at 7:00pm
Friday, March 20 at 7:00pm
Saturday, March 21 at 3:00pm
Sunday, March 22 at 3:00pm

Opera Las Vegas

UNLV William S. Boyd School of Law

4505 S Maryland Pkwy, Las Vegas, NV 89154
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Speed Dating Tonight!

Comic Opera in One Act Conceived by Dean Anthony
Music and Libretto by Michael Ching

Friday, April 17 at 8:00pm (preview)
Tuesday, April 28 at 8:00pm
Wednesday, April 29 at 8:00pm
Saturday, May 2 at 8:00pm

The Black Box Theater at the OperaDelaware Studios
4 S. Poplar St., Wilmington, DE
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Les contes d'Hoffmann
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Nicklausse/La Muse

Music by Jacques Offenbach | Libretto by Jules Barbier

​Sunday, April 26 at 2:00pm
Friday, May 1 at 7:30pm
Sunday, May 3 at 2:00pm
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Copeland Hall at The Grand
818 N. Market St. Wilmington, DE


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​Past Events

2020

Metropolitan National Council Auditions: Tulsa District

Saturday, January 18
​Cascia Hall, Tulsa, Oklahoma

2019

Metropolitan Opera Club Holiday Lunch

Performance
​Saturday, December 14th at 11:30am
The Metropolitan Opera, New York City

Bach Magnificat in D

Mezzo-soprano soloist

Saturday, December 7, 2019
7:30pm

Featuring Bach’s joyous Magnificat in D Major with chamber orchestra, soloists and choir and other works by Poulenc, Howells, Rutter, and Arnesen.

​Adults: $25
Students & Seniors: $20
At the Door: $30

Charitable organization: The Wounded Warrior Project
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EnsembleNYC
W83 Ministry Center (Redeemer Presbyterian Church)
150 West 83rd Street, New York, NY, 10024 United States (map)
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Il barbiere di Siviglia

Rosina

Music by Gioachino Rossini | Libretto by Cesare Sterbini

Friday, September 20 & 27, 2019 at 7:30pm
September 22, 2019 at 2:00pm

Freede Little Theater, Civic Center Music Hall
​Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
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Bipartisan Senate Chiefs of Staff Conference

​Recital

September 2019

Performing selections from the comedic opera Scalia/Ginsburg with Composer and Librettist Derrick Wang and Peter Scott Drackley, Tenor.

Annapolis, MD

Why Do They Sing So Loud?
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Operatic and Musical Theatre Concert

Saturday, March 30 at 7:00pm

St. Patrick's Cathedral
212 State St., Harrisburg, PA 17101

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Monday, April 1 at 7:30pm

Penn Square Music Festival
Elizabethtown College's Leffler Chapel
1 Alpha Dr. Elizabethtown, PA 17022
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Friends of Bassett Healthcare Network

Valentine's Soiree

Saturday, February 9, 2019
​9:45pm

Otesaga Resort
Cooperstown, NY
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Picture

Houston Grand Opera

Eleanor McCollum Competition &

​Concert of Arias


Semi-finalist

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End of January 2019
Picture
Credit: Houston Grand Opera The Houston Grand Opera has announced its 2017-18 season.
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The Consul

The Secretary

Music and Libretto by Gian Carlo Menotti

Sunday, January 13th @ 2:30 PM
Friday, January 18th @ 7:30 PM

Bronx Opera at Lovinger Theatre, Lehman College, The Bronx

2018

La Cenerentola
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​​Angelina

Music by Gioachino Rossini | Libretto by Jacopo Ferretti
June 8 & 10, 2018
​Opera Las Vegas
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Florencia en el Amazonas
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Paula (Cover)

Music by Daniel Catán | Libretto by Marcela Fuentes-Berain

April 28 – May 5, 2018
Florida Grand Opera
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Orfeo ed Euridice
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Orfeo (Cover)

Music by Christoph Willibald Gluck | Libretto by Ranieri de' Calzabigi
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March 17 - 31, 2018
Florida Grand Opera
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Frauenliebe und-leben

​Adelbert von Chamisso, poetry | Robert Schumann, music

In collaboration with Florida Grand Opera, a Songfest Recital titled German Romantic Lieder: from Beethoven to Mahler.
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​Friday, January 12, 2018, 7:30pm
ArtServe, 1350 East Sunrise Boulevard, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33304

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Wednesday, January 17, 2018, 7:30pm
Steinway Piano Gallery Recital Hall, 4101 Ponce De Leon Blvd, Coral Gables, FL 33146
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2017

Lucia di Lammermoor
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Alisa

Music by Gaetano Donizetti | Libretto by Salvadore Cammarano
Nov 11 - Dec 2, 2017
Florida Grand Opera
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Oklahoma!
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Virginia / Ensemble

Music by Richard Rogers | Libretto by Oscar Hammerstein II

July 8 - Aug 22, 2017

​Alice Busch Opera Theater at The Glimmerglass Festival
7300 State Highway 80, Cooperstown, NY 13326

​The Siege of Calais
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​Aurelio (Cover)

​Music by Gaetano Donizetti | Libretto by Salvatore Cammarano

July 22 - Aug 19, 2017

​​Alice Busch Opera Theater at The Glimmerglass Festival
7300 State Highway 80, Cooperstown, NY 13326

Scalia/Ginsburg
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​Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Music and Libretto by Derrick Wang

August 4 at 4:00p
​August 13 at 5:30p

Alice Busch Opera Theater at The Glimmerglass Festival
7300 State Highway 80, Cooperstown, NY 13326
more info

Hydrogen Jukebox
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as Mezzo-Soprano

Music by Philip Glass | Poetry by Allen Ginsberg

Apr 21 & 28 at 7:30p
April 23 & 30 at 3:00p

Tri-Cities Opera Center, Savoca Hibbitt Hall
315 Clinton St, Binghamton, NY 13905

L'heure espagnole
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as Concepción

Music by Maurice Ravel | Libretto by Franc-Nohain
Coupled with Arnold Schoenberg's Brettl Lieder (1st half)

Feb 17 & 24  at 7:30p
Feb 19 & 26 at 3:00p

Tri-Cities Opera Center, Savoca Hibbitt Hall
315 Clinton St, Binghamton, NY 13905

2016

Hansel & Gretel
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Hansel

Music by Engelbert Humperdinck | Libretto by Adelheid Wette
​New English translation by Kathleen Kelly

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​Nov 11, 12, 18, 19  at 7:30p
Nov 13, 20 at 3:00p

Tri-Cities Opera Center, Savoca Hibbitt Hall
315 Clinton St, Binghamton, NY 13905

La Traviata

Flora

Music by Giuseppe Verdi | Libretto by Francesco Maria Piave

​Oct 16 at 3:00p

The Forum Theatre
236 Washington St, Binghamton, NY 13901

The Crucible
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Betty Parris

Music by Robert Ward | Libretto adapted from Arthur Miller's play by Bernard Stambler

Jul 23 at 8:00p & Jul 31 at 1:30p
Aug 2, 8, 14, 20, 27 at 1:30p
​Aug 5, 18, at 7:30p

​Alice Busch Opera Theater at the Glimmerglass Festival

Lost Luggage

​(L'occasione fa il ladro)

Ernestina

Music by Gioachino Rossini | Italian Libretto by Luigi Prividali
New English translation by Kelly Rourke
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​One-act Rossini opera
​Aug 19 at 4:30p
​The Glimmerglass Festival Pavilion

Wilde Tales
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The Swallow

Youth Opera World Premiere
Music by Laura Karpman | Libretto by Kelly Rourke

Aug 9, 11, 16, 18 at 11:00a
Aug 11, 18 at 2:00p
Aug 14 at 5:30p

The Cooperstown Theatre Festival Barn

Season Preview Brunch

Ms. Nelson will preview selections for the Glimmerglass Festival's 2017 season
Sundays, Aug 7, 14, & 21 at 11:00a
At the Glimmerglass Festival Pavilion

2015

Falstaff
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Meg Page

Music by Giuseppe Verdi | Libretto adapted by Arrigo Boito from Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor and scenes from Henry IV, parts 1 and 2

Jul 2, 5 at 8:00p

Oscar Seagle Memorial Theater, Seagle Music Colony, Schroon Lake, NY

Into the Woods
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The Baker's Wife

Music and Libretto by Stephen Sondheim | James Lapine, Playwright

Jul 29, 30, Aug 1 at 8:00p
Jul 31 at 2:00p

Oscar Seagle Memorial Theater, ​Seagle Music Colony, Schroon Lake, NY

- Thank you, friends, family, and supporters -
© 2019 by Mary Beth Nelson
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