amelia watkins made an especially strong impression, her well produced voice displaying a solid top and immaculate phrasing.
— The Berkshire Eagle
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2024

Mahler in the Mountains - Soprano soloist

with the Wirth Institute for Austrian and Central European Studies and the University of Alberta

Performances in Edmonton, Canmore and Calgary

Strange Dreams, arias of Missy Mazzoli and Royce Vavrek

from The Listeners, Proving Up and Song From The Uproar

at the American Library in Paris

Meta/Physical Therapy - featured vocalist

Shana Moulton

MoMA, NYC

2023

Semmelweiss - Maria Semmelweis/Ensemble

Ray Lustig, composer and Matthew Doherty, librettist

AOP/NYAM

The Magic Flute - Pamina

Norwalk Symphony

All that is seen and unseen - featured vocalist

Music by Zach Layton and AI, with video by Shaun Irons and Lauren Petty

Governor’s Island / Harvestworks (in development)

2022

Hammer - featured vocalist

Gothenburg Opera Dance Company (GöteborgsOperans Danskompani)

Choreography, direction, sets, and lighting design by Alexander Ekman

Music by Mikael Karlsson

Holiday Concert (Messiah selections, carols and holiday favorites) with Norwalk Symphony

Opera Lab resident soprano - The American Opera Project/NYU

2021

Edward Tulane - Nellie’s Aria

Paola Prestini, composer and Mark Campbell, librettist

Digital presentation by Minnesota Opera

Thu Diếu (Autumn) - World Premiere

Music of Viet Cuong, poem by Nguyễn Khuyến (sung in Vietnamese)

Hudson Valley Philharmonic

Tamar, Judith (workshop)

Paul Vasile, composer and Karin Coonrod, librettist

Compagnia de’ Colombari

Freda Ward, Pretty Little Room (workshop)

Robert Patterson, composer and Jerre Dye, librettist at Opera Memphis

In C at Brooklyn Bridge Park Darmstadt

Bachianas Brasileiras, Villa-Lobos, Norwalk Youth Symphony

2020

Virtual demo recording of The Applicant, music and libretto by Hannah Lash

Hyena, The Opposable Thumb (workshop)

Liliya Ugay, composer and Julian Crouch, librettist

American Lyric Theatre

2019

Valencienne, The Merry Widow, Musica Viva, Hong Kong

Norma, To Music, Scene 4 by Nick Hallett at Roulette

Record release of Acquanetta Gordon/Artman, available on all streaming platforms

Brainy Woman, Acquanetta, by Michael Gordon and Deborah Artman at the Bard Festival

Mrs. Coyle, Owen Wingrave (NYC premiere) with LOTNY

In C at Le Poisson Rouge

Projects in development:

The Diana Vreeland Project, by Mikael Karlsson and Royce Vavrek

512 Voices by Zach Layton

Shampoo Horns, video opera project with various composers and libretti by Royce Vavrek

2017- 2018

Brainy Woman, Acquanetta, by Michael Gordon and Deborah Artman at the Prototype Festival (world premiere)

In C at Le Poisson Rouge

Concert at Brooklyn Museum with American Opera Projects 

Spring Workshop of To Music (Nick Hallett) at Mt Tremper Arts

Scene 3 of To Music at Issue Project Room

Recital at 23Arts Summer Music Festival

Showcase of The Diana Vreeland Project, by Mikael Karlsson and Royce Vavrek

Bach, Magnificat (soprano solo) at Norwalk Symphony


2016 - 17

Mahler, Symphony #2, Soprano soloist with the Norwalk Symphony

To Music, Scene 2, by Nick Hallett at Merkin Concert Hall

"You of All things"; Music of Jodie Landau and Ellen Reid at National Sawdust

Schubert: Shepherd on the Rock

Feldman, Voice, Violin, Piano at Music Mountain

Musetta in La bohème with the Norwalk Symphony

Park and Bark; 6 mini-operas about Brooklyn's Fort Greene Park with American Opera Projects

512 Voices by Zach Layton at EMPAC, Troy, NY

Soprano Soloist in Handel's Messiah with the Norwalk Symphony

Music of Tim Hecker at EMPAC, Troy, NY

Song from the Uproar (Missy Mazzoli & Royce Vavrek) at LA Opera

The Vagabonds by Andy Teirstein at 14th Street Y

Excerpts from Diana Vreeland by Mikael Karlsson and Royce Vavrek, Ferus Festival 

 To Music, Scene 1, by Nick Hallett, at Roulette with Experiments in Opera

PREVIOUS ENGAGEMENTS:

 Casta diva in Breastmilk: The Movie, produced by Ricky Lake. On Netflix.

Soprano Soloist in Handel's Messiah with the Norwalk Symphony

Halletiade: The songs of Nick Hallett at Joe's Pub

Canandaigua Lake Music Festival: recitals with music by Fauré, Mozart, Amy Beach, Gershwin, and Cole Porter

"The Rocky Horror Opera Show" at the New Museum

Music and Words with Paola Prestini at the National Opera Center: "Cut him out in Little Stars" 

Carmen in Concert (Frasquita) with the Norwalk Symphony

“Vavrek & Vrebalov” with American Lyric Theatre at the National Opera Center. Works by Andrew Gerle (The Beach) and Jeff Myers (Maren of Vardo)

"The Story of Babar", at the Alliance Francaise, presented by Ardea Arts. An all-French presentation, featuring the Quatre Chansons Pour Enfants by Poulenc.

Scenes of Armida and Cleopatra in “The Armida Project” a Baroque pastiche with works by Handel and contemporaries, with full Baroque orchestra. New Opera NYC/Manhattan Movement and Arts Center

A staged performance of "Magnanimous", from Zach Redler and Sarah Cooper’s piece Windows, American Opera Projects

Soprano Soloist in Handel’s Messiah with the Norwalk Symphony Orchestra

"Up Then, You Virgins" from Thomas Cabaniss’s Pensethilea, part of 21c Liederabend at BAM, Beth Morrison Productions

Soprano Soloist in Fauré's Requiem with the Norwalk Symphony Orchestra

Recital featuring Bach Cantatas #202 & 210, as well as works by Mozart, Poulenc, Walton and Quilter at the Abbey Bach Festival, Oregon

Mabrouka in the staged premiere of Sumeida’s Song by Mohammed Fairouz at Here Arts Center, part of Prototype Festival, Beth Morrison Productions

Norina in Don Pasquale, with Underworld Productions at the Abigail Adams House

Isabel II in the world premiere of Song from the Uproar by Missy Mazzoli & Royce Vavrek at The Kitchen, Beth Morrison Productions

Soprano Soloist in Exultate, Jubilate by Mozart, with the Norwalk Symphony Orchestra  

Soprano Soloist in Mozart’s Requiem with the Norwalk Symphony Orchestra

Owen Songs (selections) by Greg Spears, and Boxes, Buckets & Bags by Peter Golub, part of 21c Liederabend at The Kitchen, Beth Morrison Productions

Elle in Poulenc's La Voix Humaine, at West Chester University, PA

Dafne in Handel’s Apollo e Dafne, Underworld Productions at Riverside Theatre

Half-recital of songs by David Cutler and Rob Maggio, West Chester University, PA

Laoula (cover) in Chabrier’s L’étoile, New York City Opera

Ape (scenes, premiere) in Acquanetta, scenes from the opera by Michael Gordon, New York City Opera VOX

Sor Isabel/Sor Rosa in With Blood, With Ink (scenes) by Daniel Crozier & Peter M. Krask, New York City Opera VOX

Königen der Nacht in concert performance of Die Zauberflöte by Mozart, with Orchestre Symphonique Longueuil

Mme. Herz in Mozart’s The Impresario at The Yard, Martha’s Vineyard

Woman #1 in premiere workshop of Invisible Cities by Chris Cerrone, Yale Institute for Music Theatre 

Sexual Side Effects by Cory Dargel, 21c Liederabend at Galapagos, Beth Morrison Productions 

Endless Ocean by Augusta Read Thomas, with Camerata Notturna, New York Premiere 

Soprano Soloist in Handel’s Messiah, with the Orchestre Chambre de Longueuil 

Songs of Cole Porter, Comèdies Musicales, filmed and run on Bravo Television

Soprano Soloist in Pulcinella by Stravinsky with the Camerata Notturna 

Soprano Soloist, Symphony #2 by Mahler , National Arts Center            

Zerlina in Don Giovanni (Don Juan in Prague), Brooklyn Academy of Music and the Estates Theatre, Prague, Beth Morrison Productions 

Soprano Soloist (premiere) in Manfred Trojahn’s Requiem, at the Leipzig Gewandhaus 

Soprano Soloist, Ch'io mi scordi di te by Mozart, with the Chamber Orchestra of Hong Kong 

Mini-Recital, Weill Recital Hall, as part of the Carnegie Hall Professional Training Workshop with Thomas Quasthoff

Premiere of Hell, The Opera at PS 122, Beth Morrison Productions

Gianetta in L’élisir d’amore, with Opera Ontario

Despina (cover) in Così Fan Tutte, with Berkshire Opera

Frasquita in Carmen, with Metro Lyric Opera

Lucy in The Telephone, with Opera New Rochelle            

Valencienne in The Merry Widow with Opera New Rochelle

Gretel in Hansel & Gretel, with Rockland Opera            

Frasquita in Carmen, Mobile Opera 

Soprano Soloist in Mozart’s Coronation Mass and Rutter’s Requiem at Carnegie Hall (MidAmerica Productions) 

Metaphors of Women by Elliot Levine, at Weill Hal

Soprano Soloist in Bach's Cantata #21 at Seiji Ozawa Hall, Tanglewood, MA

Premiere of Ron Ford’s Salome Fast, at Seiji Ozawa Hall, Tanglewood, MA           

Mini-recitals at Seiji Ozawa Hall, Tanglewood, MA