“amelia watkins made an especially strong impression, her well produced voice displaying a solid top and immaculate phrasing.”
2025
Orpheus and Euridice - Euridice
Ricky Ian Gordon, composer and librettist
Music Theatre of Connecticut, Nowalk, CT
2024
House of Legendary - Sofia
Joseph N. Rubinstein, composer and Jason Kim, librettist
Orchestral workshop/performance at The Tank, NYC
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/Nick Hallett
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