Margaret Meyer Margaret Meyer

Margaret Meyer, soprano, has worked with some of the top conductors, directors, and coaches in the country, including Joshua Greene (Metropolitan Opera), Keith Chambers (New Jersey Opera), David Gately (Florida Grand Opera and Seattle Opera), Christopher Mattaliano (Portland Opera), and composer Daron Hagen. Her recent roles include Pamina (Die Zauberflöte), Adina (L’elisir d’amore), Susanna (Le nozze di Figaro), Norina (Don Pasquale), Giulietta (I Capuleti e i Montecchi), Morgana (Alcina), and Suor Genovieffa (Suor Angelica). In September, she debuted with Long Island Opera as Frasquita (Carmen). Other operatic roles include Gretel (Hansel und Gretel), Zerlina (Don Giovanni), and Ciesca (Gianni Schicchi). This coming year, she will sing Fiordigili (Così fan tutte) and the title role in Alcina. As a professional concert artist, she has been the soprano soloist in Mozart’s Mass in C minor, the Messiah, Brahms’ Ein deutsches Requiem, and Mozart’s Exsultate, jubilate.
 
Ms. Meyer has experience with new music, having participated in the workshops and world premieres of two operas, The Ancient Concert by Daron Hagen and Beautiful Creatures by Jennifer Griffiths. This spring, she will perform in a new work, Rise… by Joseph Wright and David Carl. In addition, Ms. Meyer has performed a variety of early music works, including Cavalli’s Calisto and L’Egisto, as well as Lully’s Thésée.

 

Recently, Ms. Meyer had the opportunity to tour Eastern Europe with the Princeton University Chapel Choir and sing in some of Europe’s greatest cathedrals, including Vienna’s St. Stephen’s Cathedral. Previously, she was the soloist in Vaughan Williams’ Dona Nobis Pacem at the Princeton University Chapel Choir’s debut at Carnegie Hall. Ms. Meyer earned her Master’s in Music at McGill University in Montreal and her B.A. at Princeton University in Comparative Literature (High Honors, Phi Beta Kappa).

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