Mary Ann Stewart has performed in China, France, Spain, Switzerland, Italy, Belgium, Bulgaria, Mexico and the United States.
She began the 2009 season by singing Adalgisa / Norma conducted by Yves Abel for her Bilbao Opera (ABAO-OLBE) début and will make her Fresno Grand Opera début as Maddalena / Rigoletto in 2010.

She made her European début singing Isolier / Le Comte Ory with the Opéra Royal de Wallonie in Liège, Belgium, a role she repeated at the Festival de Opera de Tenerife, Spain. She returned to Tenerife to sing Miss Jessel / The Turn of the Screw and debuted in 2008 with Opéra de Nice as Hippolyta / A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

Other notable engagements include Stéphano / Roméo et Juliette with the Macau Opera Festival, Giovanna Seymour / Anna Bolena for the Opera Orchestra of New York, The Secretary / The Consul with Opera Boston, Madrigal Singer / Manon Lescaut, Sixth Flowermaiden / Parsifal, Siegrune / Die Walküre and Idamante / Idomeneo with Washington National Opera, Brangäne / Tristan und Isolde with Virginia Opera, Urbain / Les Huguenots with the Orquesta Sinfónica del Estado de México, Old Lady / Candide at the Teatro Argentina in Rome with the Euro Festivale Mediterraneo, Carmen / Carmen and the Principessa di Bouillon / Adriana Lecouvreur for Opera in the Heights, Houston

Her concert engagements have included Beethoven’s Mass in C at Carnegie Hall, Handel’s Messiah at Carnegie Hall and Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center, Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis at Lehigh University, Mass in C Minor at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center, Ravel’s Schéhérazade in Salerno and a Verdi Gala at Weill Recital Hall, Carnegie Hall.

Mary Ann 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 a Winner in the Liederkranz Foundation Scholarship.

   Conductors have included Yves Abel, Jacques Delacôte, John DeMain, Plácido Domingo, Arthur Fagen, Heinz Fricke, Steven Osgood, Renato Palumbo, Victor Pablo Pérez, Eve Queler, Gil Rose, William Weibel, Alberto Zedda and David Zinman.

 

“…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”
Factanet Italia

“Mary Ann Stewart’s performance is a feast for the eyes and ears of all Bel Canto lovers”
Grenz Echo Redakton

“…golden tone, golden control, golden soul behind the music”
The New York Quarterly

“...a firm, burnished mezzo and rich expression”
Opera News

“…major operatic talent...intelligence, emotive power and a fine precision in
the meaningful projection of words”
The Washington Post