Guest Artist Recital
Program
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
“Ch’io mi scordi di te?...Non temer, amato bene.” K. 505
Pauline Viardot
Bonjour mon coeur
Plainte d’amour
Sérénade Florentine
Haï luli
Chanson de la pluie
Fleur deséchée
Les filles des Cadix
Richard Strauss
Vier Letzte Lieder
During an international career that has brought her to many of the world’s most important opera houses, Mary Dunleavy has affirmed her position as one of America’s leading singing actresses.
Most recently, the soprano made her critically acclaimed UK debut as Christine in Intermezzo with Garsington Opera. During the 2015-2016 season the soprano returns to the roster of the Metropolitan Opera to cover Musetta in La bohème, and appears in concert with the Oregon Mozart Players. Last season, Ms. Dunleavy returned to Portland Opera as Rosalinde in Die Fledermaus, and to the Metropolitan Opera for several productions, covering the roles of Mimi, Musetta, Micaëla, Donna Anna, and Anne Truelove.
Her gallery of operatic heroines is led by her signature role, Violetta in La traviata, seen thus far in over 60 performances at the Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera, Barcelona’s Gran Teatre del Liceu, Glimmerglass Opera, New York City Opera, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, Lyric Opera of Kansas City, the Nederlands Philharmonisch Orkest, and others. Additional career highlights include Gilda in Rigoletto at the Met, San Francisco Opera, Hamburgische Staatsoper, Teatro Municipal de Santiago, and Opera Pacific; the Infanta in Zemlinsky’s Der Zwerg with Los Angeles Opera, the Philadelphia Orchestra, Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, and the Spoleto Festival USA; Konstanze in Die Entführung aus dem Serail with Ensemble Orchestral de Paris, Cincinnati May Festival, San Francisco Opera, Washington National Opera, NYCO, Opera Philadelphia, and Boston Lyric Opera; Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte and Countess Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro with Opera Philadelphia; Donna Anna in Don Giovanni with Michigan Opera Theatre; Pamina in Die Zauberflöte with the Met, Boston Lyric Opera, and Portland Opera; Giunia in Lucio Silla at De Nederlandse Opera.
Ms. Dunleavy was born in Connecticut and raised in New Jersey. She received her undergraduate degree from Northwestern University, where she studied with Kathleen Kaun. She earned her Master of Music degree at the University of Texas at Austin, where she studied with Mignon Dunn. In 2006, she was named one of four Outstanding Young Texas Exes by the University.