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Guest Artist Bio

Eve Gigliotti

Mezzo soprano Eve Gigliotti debuts at the Metropolitan Opera this season as Mercedes in the new production of Carmen, as well asappearing in the world premiere of Flora at Spoleto Festival USA and Schumann's Scenes from Goethe's Faust with the American Symphony Orchestra in New York. She will also workshop Two Boys by Nico Muhly, co-commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera.

A graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music, last summer Gigliotti sang the role of Vera Boronel in Menottii’s The Consul at Glimmerglass Opera. Other roles include Mother Marie in Dialogues of the Carmelites, The Mother in Amahl and the Night Visitors and the Commere in Four Saints in Three Acts.

She was a finalist and received an honorable mention in the 2009 George London Foundation Competition, and an encouragement award in the 2009 Licia Albanese-Puccini Foundation Competition. An advocate of new work, Gigliotti has premiered pieces by Daniel Felsenfeld, Christian McLeer, Glen Cortese, Elena Ruehr, Martin Hennessy and Joseph Summer and has recorded selections of Summer’s work on Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day, released on Albany Records.

 

 

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