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Elizabeth Bishop
Mezzo-soprano
American mezzo Elizabeth Bishop begins the 2019/20 season by returning to The Metropolitan Opera in the role of Marcellina Le Nozze di Figaro. The artist travels to Texas to perform the role of Herodias Salome with Dallas Symphony Orchestra before joining Park Ridge Civic Orchestra for performances of Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde. With The Choral Arts Society of Washington she features as soloist for Copeland’s In the Beginning and the Brahms Alto Rhapsody.
Last season saw the artist appear as a soloist in Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with New Jersey Symphony Orchestra and at Lyric Opera Chicago she stepped into the role of Madame de la Haltière Cendrillon. She returned to The Metropolitan Opera for performances as Second Norn/Fricka (c)/Waltraute (c) Der Ring des Nibelungen.
“Elizabeth Bishop savoured the vain haughtiness of Madame de la Haltière, the wicked stepmother, with a glee as grotesque as the bulbous derrières Pelly designed for her brightly coloured costumes.”
John von Rhein, Opera Magazine, April 2019
“The role of Salome’s mother Herodias is difficult to bring off. She spends most of her time onstage complaining about Jochanaan’s disrespect and encouraging Salome’s vicious impulses. Elizabeth Bishop managed to cut a proud, imperious figure and her impressive mezzo voice made the most of her pronouncements without appearing shrewish.”
South Florida Classical Review, Lawrence Budmen, 28 January 2018
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| BARBER | Vanessa (Erika) |
|---|---|
| BARTOK | Bluebeard’s Castle (Judith) |
| BELLINI | Norma (Adalgisa) |
| BERLIOZ | La Damnation de Faust (Marguerite) |
| DONIZETTI | La Favorita (Léonor) Maria Stuarda (Elisabetta) Roberto Devereux (Sara) |
| GLUCK | Iphigenie en Tauride (Iphigenie) |
| GORDON | The Grapes of Wrath (Ma Joad) |
| GOUNOD | Sapho (Sapho) |
| JANÁCEK | Jenufa (Burjya, Kostelnichka) |
| MASCAGNI | Cavalleria Rusticana (Santuzza) |
| MONTEVERDI | L’Incoronazione di Poppea (Ottavia) |
| MUSSORGSKY | Boris Godunov (Marina) |
| OFFENBACH | Les Contes d’Hoffmann (Giulietta, Mother of Antonia) |
| POULENC | Dialogues des Carmelites (Mere Marie) |
| PROKOFIEV | War and Peace (Maria Bolkonskaya) |
| ROSSINI | Guillaume Tell (Hedwige) |
| RUDER | The Handmaid’s Tale (Offred) |
| TCHAIKOVSKY | The Maid of Orleans (Ioanna) |
| THOMAS | Hamlet (Gertrude) |
| ULLMANN | Der Zerbrochene Krug (Frau Marthe Rull) |
| VERDI | Aida (Amneris) Don Carlo (Eboli) Falstaff (Meg Page) Il Trovatore (Azucena) Nabucco (Fenena) Otello (Emilia) |
| WAGNER | Götterdämmerung (Waltraute, Second Norn) Parsifal (Kundry) Das Rheingold (Fricka) Tannhäuser (Venus) Tristan und Isolde (Brangäne) Die Walküre (Fricka, Sieglinde) |
| WALLACE | Harvey Milk (Mother) |
| WARD | The Crucible (Elizabeth Proctor) |
| BACH | Christmas Oratorio Magnificat Mass In B Minor |
|---|---|
| BEETHOVEN | Missa Solemnis Symphony No. 9 |
| BERLIOZ | La Damnation De Faust Le Mort De Cléopâtre Les Nuits D’Été |
| BRAHMS | Alto Rhapsody |
| CANTELOUBE | Songs of the Auvergne |
| DURUFLÉ | Requiem |
| HANDEL | Judas Maccabaeus Messiah |
| LIGETI | Requiem |
| MAHLER | Das Lied Von Der Erde Lieder Eines Fahrenden Gesellen Symphony No. 2 Symphony No. 3 Symphony No. 8 |
| MENDELSSOHN | Elijah Symphony No. 2 |
| MOZART | Coronation Mass Mass In C Minor Requiem |
| TIPPETT | A Child Of Our Time |
| VAUGHAN WILLIAMS | Serenade To Music |
| VERDI | Requiem |
| WAGNER | Liebestod Wesendonck Lieder |
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Deborah Sanders
Founder and Director
deborah@arbourartists.com