Mary Beth Nelson | mezzo-soprano
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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 Sivig
lia
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
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
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
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


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 



Biography


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.​
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