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OPERA
Sospetto / Fate 2 / Grace 2 Rosina Secretary Angelina + Paula + Orfeo Alisa Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg + Aurelio Mezzo-Soprano Concepción Hansel Flora Ernestina Swallow Betty Parris + Pippo Dinah Laura Rosina + Rosina Meg Page Isabella Mrs. Gibbs Nicklausse/La Muse Rosina Dorabella Nicklausse/La Muse MUSICAL THEATRE
Virginia / Ensemble Ensemble / Letter Quintet Soloist The Beggar Woman The Baker's Wife Anybodys Mezzo Soloist Eliza Doolittle CONCERT AND RECITAL
Why Do They Sing So Loud? Bipartisan House Chiefs of Staff Initiative Schumann's Frauenliebe und-leben Judicial Congressional Dialogue (Winter) |
L’Orfeo Il barbiere di Siviglia The Consul La Cenerentola Florencia en el Amazonas Orfeo ed Euridice Lucia di Lammermoor Scalia/Ginsburg (Derrick Wang) L’assedio di Calais Hydrogen Jukebox (Philip Glass) L'heure espagnole Hansel & Gretel (in English) La Traviata L'occasione fa il ladro (in English) Wilde Tales (youth opera) The Crucible La gazza ladra (Rossini) Trouble in Tahiti Iolanta Il barbiere di Siviglia Il barbiere di Siviglia Falstaff L'italiana in Algeri Our Town (Ned Rorem) Les contes d'Hoffmann Il barbiere di Siviglia Così fan tutte (in English) Les contes d’Hoffmann Oklahoma! Sweeney Todd Sweeney Todd Into the Woods West Side Story Side by Side by Sondheim My Fair Lady Opera and Musical Theatre Selections Scalia/Ginsburg Excerpts SongFest: Beethoven to Mahler Scalia/Ginsburg Excerpts |
Juilliard Opera Painted Sky Opera Bronx Opera Opera Las Vegas Florida Grand Opera Florida Grand Opera Florida Grand Opera The Glimmerglass Festival The Glimmerglass Festival Tri-Cities Opera Tri-Cities Opera Tri-Cities Opera Tri-Cities Opera The Glimmerglass Festival The Glimmerglass Festival The Glimmerglass Festival The Glimmerglass Festival Tri-Cities Opera Tri-Cities Opera Tri-Cities Opera Seagle Music Colony Seagle Music Colony Tri-Cities Opera OK Opera and Music Theatre Company Harrower Summer Opera Workshop OK Opera and Music Theatre Company OK Opera and Music Theatre Company OK Opera and Music Theatre Company The Glimmerglass Festival The Glimmerglass Festival Tri-Cities Opera Seagle Music Colony Seagle Music Colony Seagle Music Colony Marble Falls High School Penn Square Music Festival Library of Congress Florida Grand Opera Library of Congress |
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COMPETITIONS AND AWARDS
Career Bridges Winner Semifinalist Jennifer White Memorial Award Finalist & 1st Audience Choice Award Stephen Dickson Encouragement Award 1st Place & People’s Choice Award Emerging Talent Award Young Encouragement Award 1st Place Encouragement Award |
Career Bridges, New York City Houston Grand Opera Eleanor McCollum Competition Shreveport Singer of the Year Competition Lois Alba Aria Competition, Houston, TX Bass School of Music Senior Awards Banquet, OCU International Crescendo Music Awards Competition Lotte Lenya Competition, Kurt Weill Foundation for Music Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, Tulsa District NATS Oklahoma District Junior Women’s Division Schloss Mirabell Competition in Salzburg, Austria |
2019 2019 2016 2014 2014 2014 2014 2014 2013 2012 |
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TRAINING PROGRAMS
Florida Grand Opera Studio The Glimmerglass Festival Young Artist Program Tri-Cities Opera Resident Artist Training Program Seagle Music Colony Harrower Summer Opera Workshop Frost School of Music in Salzburg, Austria EDUCATION
B.M. Vocal Performance |
Miami, FL Cooperstown, NY Binghamton, NY Schroon Lake, NY Georgia State University University of Miami Bass School of Music, Oklahoma City University |
2017-18 2016, 17 2015-17 2014-15 2013 2012 2014 |
** Denotes upcoming or current
+ Denotes understudy
+ Denotes understudy
Dance:
OCU basic ballet (Patricia Oplotnik), OCU basic & beyond basic tap (Patricia Oplotnik), OCHSA basic & beyond basic ballroom (Vasil Chekardzhikov)
Special Skills:
Traditional recurve archery; basic beat boxing; Black Belt in Sho-Ryn-Ru Karate; Accents: Proper British, Cockney, Irish, Russian; learns accents quickly;
valid Texas driver’s license; valid U.S. passport; AGMA member in good standing
OCU basic ballet (Patricia Oplotnik), OCU basic & beyond basic tap (Patricia Oplotnik), OCHSA basic & beyond basic ballroom (Vasil Chekardzhikov)
Special Skills:
Traditional recurve archery; basic beat boxing; Black Belt in Sho-Ryn-Ru Karate; Accents: Proper British, Cockney, Irish, Russian; learns accents quickly;
valid Texas driver’s license; valid U.S. passport; AGMA member in good standing
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CONDUCTORS
Joshua Horsch Richard Bado William Hobbs Vlad Iftinca Warren Jones Matthew Mailman David Moody Nicole Paiement Braden Toan |
DIRECTORS
Audrey Chait Dorothy Danner Eric Sean Fogel Carleen Graham David Herendeen JJ Hudson Alison Moritz Johnathon Pape Elise Sandell Copeland Woodruff Francesca Zambello |
VOICE
Frank Ragsdale Laura Brooks Rice |
COACHES
Chuck Koslowske Jan McDaniel |
MASTER CLASSES
Susanne Mentzer Frederica von Stade Florence Birdwell Ron Raines |
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Biography |
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Mezzo-soprano Mary Beth Nelson is praised for singing with "virtuosic abandon... joyous flair and assured beauty of tone" (Opera Today) at The Glimmerglass Festival, where she sang the role of Ruth Bader Ginsburg in Scalia/Ginsburg. Following her success as the operatic Supreme Court Justice, she was invited to Washington D.C. to perform in the winter Judicial Congressional Dialogue, as as well as the Bipartisan Chiefs of Staff Initiative, where she sang for members of Senate, House Legislation and their staff, and both the Supreme Court and Federal Court judiciary.
As a young artist with the Cooperstown, NY festival over the course of 2016-2017, she appeared in roles in Oklahoma (Virginia), Francesca Zambello's production of The Crucible (Betty Parris), and Lost Luggage (Ernestina). Ms. Nelson was a resident artist with Tri-Cities Opera for two seasons, 2015-2017, where she made her guest artist debut as Isabella in L'italiana in Algeri, followed by Rosina in Rossini's Il barbiere di Siviglia, Dinah in Leonard Bernstein's Trouble in Tahiti, Flora in La Traviata, Hansel in Humperdinck's Hansel & Gretel, and Concepción in Maurice Ravel's one-act opera L'heure espagnole. During the 2017-18 season, she was a member of the Florida Grand Opera studio, where in November 2017 she made her house debut as Alisa in Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor and was commended for her "ample voice and dark foreboding" by South Florida Classical Review.
As a young artist with the Cooperstown, NY festival over the course of 2016-2017, she appeared in roles in Oklahoma (Virginia), Francesca Zambello's production of The Crucible (Betty Parris), and Lost Luggage (Ernestina). Ms. Nelson was a resident artist with Tri-Cities Opera for two seasons, 2015-2017, where she made her guest artist debut as Isabella in L'italiana in Algeri, followed by Rosina in Rossini's Il barbiere di Siviglia, Dinah in Leonard Bernstein's Trouble in Tahiti, Flora in La Traviata, Hansel in Humperdinck's Hansel & Gretel, and Concepción in Maurice Ravel's one-act opera L'heure espagnole. During the 2017-18 season, she was a member of the Florida Grand Opera studio, where in November 2017 she made her house debut as Alisa in Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor and was commended for her "ample voice and dark foreboding" by South Florida Classical Review.