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Stephanie Blythe |
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the Metropolitan Opera; the title role in Carmen,and Fricka in both Das Rheingold and Die Walküre at the Seattle Opera; Isabella in L’Italiana in Algeri at the Santa Fe Opera; the title role in La Grande Duchesse and Isabella at the Opera Company of Philadelphia; the title role in Guilio Cesare at Opera Colorado; Mistress Quickly and Ino/Juno at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden; Auntie in Peter Grimes, Cornelia and Mistress Quickly at the Opera National de Paris; and the title role in Mignon and Malcolm in La donna del lago with the Opera Orchestra of New York in Carnegie Hall. On the concert stage, Ms. Blythe continues her work with such orchestras as the New York Philharmonic, the Boston Symphony, the Chicago Symphony, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, the Ensemble Orchestre de Paris, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the San Francisco Symphony, the Boston Symphony, the Philadelphia Orchestra, Orchestra of St. Luke’s, the Minnesota Orchestra, and the Atlanta Symphony. Ms. Blythe has worked with many of the world’s finest conductors including: Harry Bicket, James Conlon, Charles Dutoit, Mark Elder, Christoph Eschenbach, James Levine, Sir Charles Mackerras, John Nelson, Antonio Pappano, Mstislav Rostropovitch, Robert Spano, Patrick Summers, and Michael Tilson Thomas. Ms. Blythe’s most recent solo CD, a collection of pieces by Mahler, Brahms, and Wagner was released on the Virgin Classics label. Her first solo CD of Handel and Bach arias was also released on the Virgin Classics label. She premiered Vignettes: Ellis Island, a song cycle written especially for her by Alan Smith, in an US recital series co-presented by the Marilyn Horne Foundation. The song cycle was also featured in a special television program entitled “Vignettes: An Evening with Stephanie Blythe and Warren Jones, presented by Opera News on the WNYE television series Opera New York. She has been presented in recital with her collaborative partner, Warren Jones, by Lincoln Center’s Great Performers Series at Alice Tully Hall, the Vocal Arts Society and at the Supreme Court at the invitation of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Ginsberg in Washington, DC, the 92nd Street Y in New York, the Cleveland Art Song Festival, the University Musical Society in Ann Arbor, the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, and in Cincinnati. |
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The winner of the 1999 Richard Tucker Award, mezzo-soprano Stephanie Blythe has rapidly become one of the most highly respected artists of her generation. This season, Ms. Blythe appears at the Metropolitan Opera in productions of Falstaff and Rodelinda, the Arizona Opera as Ino/Juno in Semele, and at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden as Ulrica in Un Ballo in Maschera. Her recent opera engagements have included Eduige in a new production of Rodelinda, Baba the Turk in The Rake’s Progress, Jocasta in Oedipus Rex, Cornelia in Guilio Cesare, Mere Marie in Dialogues des Carmélites, and Mistress Quickly in Falstaff at |
