Mary Ann Stewart - Biography

Following an international career as a mezzo, Mary Ann Stewart recently moved into the light dramatic soprano repertoire.

She began the 2009-10 season by singing Adalgisa in Norma conducted by Yves Abel for her Bilbao Opera (ABAO-OLBE) debut. She will return to Bilbao in 2011 for their production of Roméo et Juliette. This season also finds her singing the title role of Ariadne auf Naxos with dell’Arte Opera in New York City as well as covering Adriano in Rienzi with Opera Orchestra of New York.

As a mezzo, she made her European début singing Isolier in 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 in Glyndebourne Opera’s production of The Turn of the Screw and débuted in 2008 with Opéra de Nice as Hippolyta in A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

Other notable engagements include Stéphano / Roméo et Juliette (Macau Opera Festival), Giovanna Seymour / Anna Bolena (Opera Orchestra of New York), The Secretary / The Consul (Opera Boston), Madrigal Singer / Manon Lescaut, SixthFlowermaiden / Parsifal, Siegrune / Die Walküre and Idamante/ Idomeneo (Washington National Opera), Brangäne / Tristan und Isolde (Virginia Opera), Urbain / Les Huguenots (Orquesta Sinfónica del Estado de México), Old Lady / Candide at the Teatro Argentina in Rome (Euro Festivale Mediterraneo), Rose 3 in Jonathan Sheffer’s off-broadway premiere of Blood on the Dining Room Floor, Carmen and Principessa di Bouillon / Adriana Lecouvreur (Opera in the Heights), Maddalena / Rigoletto (Fresno Grand Opera) and Donna Elvira / Don Giovanni (dell’Arte Opera).

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 Galaat 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 Jarvi, Peter Mark, John Massaro, Steven Osgood, Renato Palumbo, Victor Pablo Pérez, Eve Queler, Gil Rose, William Weibel, Alberto Zedda and David Zinman.