Mary Ann Stewart is a “…major operatic talent” who sings with “…intelligence, emotive power and a fine precision in the meaningful projection of words” (Joseph McLellan, The Washington Post).  She is “…a beautiful young mezzo-soprano bursting upon the scene with theatricality and a liquid, clear, well-controlled voice that come together on the stage to draw in and engage the audience” (Guerrino Mattei, Factanet Italia).  She possesses “...a firm, burnished mezzo and rich expression” (Tim Smith, Opera News) as well as a “…golden tone, golden control, golden soul behind the music” (William Packard, The New York Quarterly).   “Mary Ann Stewart’s performance is a feast for the eyes and ears of all Bel Canto lovers” (Heinz Godesar, Grenz Echo Redakton).  She has performed in China, France, Spain, Switzerland, Italy, Belgium, Bulgaria, Mexico and the United States.

In 2004-05 she debuted with the Macau Opera Festival singing Stéphano in Roméo et Juliette and with Virginia Opera singing Brangäne in Tristan und Isolde. In 2005-06 she sang the Secretary in The Consul with Opera Boston, Isolier in Le Comte Ory with the Opéra Royal de Wallonie in Liège, Belgium, the Messiah at Avery Fisher Hall and Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis. In 2006-07 she returned to the role of Isolier in Le Comte Ory with the Festival de Ópera de Tenerife, Spain and covered the title role of Carmen for Tulsa Opera.

Other notable engagements for Ms. Stewart include Giovanna Seymour in Anna Bolena for Opera Orchestra of New York, a Verdi Gala performance at Weill Hall. Urbain in Les Huguenots with the Orquesta Sinfónica del Estado de México, the Madrigal Singer in Manon Lescaut, Siegrune in Die Walküre, the Sixth Flower Maiden in Parsifal, the Page in Salome, and Idamante (cover) in Idomeneo all with Washington National Opera; the Old Lady in Candide with the Euro Festivale Mediterraneo at the Teatro Argentina in Rome as well as Beethoven’s Mass in C and Handel’s Messiah both at Carnegie Hall.

She started the 2007-08 season by singing her first Carmen with Opera in the Heights then returned to the Festival de Ópera de Tenerife as Miss Jessel in Turn of the Screw. Future engagements for this season include a return to Opera in the Heights to sing the Principessa in Adriana Lecouvreur as well as her debut with Opéra de Nice as Hippolyta in A Midsummer Night's Dream.

She has sung under the batons of such notable conductors as Plácido Domingo, Alberto Zedda, Jacques Delacôte, Victor Pablo Pérez, Renato Palumbo, Eve Queler, John DeMain, Heinz Fricka, Gil Rose, Peter Mark, William Weibel, David Zinman and Steven Osgood.

Ms. Stewart was a World Finalist in the Luciano Pavarotti International Competition, a Regional Finalist and Study Grant Winner in the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions and winner in the Liederkranz Foundation Scholarship Competition.

Among other things, Ms. Stewart has performed the following pieces in concert:

• Adalgisa (excerpts) from Norma at the Ravello Festival, Italy
• Beethoven's Mass in C at Carnegie Hall
• Beethoven's Missa Solemnis at Lehigh University
• Giulietta (excerpts) from Les Contes d'Hoffmann with the Chautauqua Opera Orchestra
• Handel's Messiah at Avery Fisher Hall and Carnegie Hall
• Handel's Messiah (staged version) Millennial Arts. Prod. & Baroque Opera Inst.
• Komponist (excerpts) from Ariadne auf Naxos with the Chautauqua Opera Orchestra
• Kundry (excerpts) from Parsifal at the Ravello Festival, Italy
• Mozart's Mass in C (K262) in Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center
• Octavian (excerpts) from Der Rosenkavalier in Chautauqua, NY and Salerno, Italy
• Ravel's Shéhérazade in Salerno, Italy; Tulsa, Ok and NYC
• Verdi Gala at Weill Recital Hall