Mary Elizabeth Williams
Mary Elizabeth Williams’ last season engagements include the title role Aida at Cincinnati Opera and Judith Bluebeard’s Castle at both Teatro Coccia, Novara and Teatro Pergolesi, Jesi. Future engagements include her debut as Isolde Tristan und Isolde at Seattle Opera prior to her engagement for the role at Opera National de Paris. In Germany she returns to the title role Aida, and she travels back to the US for Foreign Princess Rusalka at Santa Fe Opera.
Recent highlights include Elisabeth Don Carlos in the five-act French version at Vlaanderen Opera, Verdi’s Requiem under the baton of Zubin Mehta and Tippett’s A Child of Our Time conducted by Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla. She returned to her native USA to Lyric Opera of Chicago to prepare Gutrune Götterdämmerung in the new Ring production by David Pountney, and made her house debut at Theatre an der Wien as Serena Porgy and Bess, a role she previously sang at La Scala Milan and at Seattle Opera in past seasons.
“American soprano Mary Elizabeth Williams easily filled the house with her higher resister. The two female soloists with glorious woodwind accompaniment gave a sublime account of the “Recordare,” one of the quieter more subdued passages of the requiem.”
The Jerusalem Post, Irving Spitz, 14 July 2019
“Outstanding is Mary Elizabeth Williams’s Amelia, a morose, somewhat one-dimensional role with, though, rivetting, difficult, beautiful music over a big range, much exposed in the gallows scene here by placing her a good deal downstage with her back to the horrors. She never puts a foot wrong; this is wonderful Verdi singing.”
Stephen Walsh, The Arts Desk, 11 February 2019
| Bellini | Norma (title, Adalgisa) |
|---|---|
| Catalani | La Wally (Wally) |
| Cilea | Adriana Lecouvreur (title) |
| Danielpour | Margaret Garner (Cilla) |
| Davis | Amistad (The Goddess of the Waters) |
| Donizetti | Maria Stuarda (Elisabetta) |
| Gershwin | Porgy and Bess (Serena, Bess*) |
| Mascagni | Cavalleria rusticana (Santuzza) |
| Massenet | Le Cid (Chimène) |
| Puccini | Le Villi (Anna)
Tosca (title) Suor Angelica (title) |
| J. Stauss | Die Fledermaus (Rosalinde) |
| R. Strauss | Der Rosenkavalier (Marianne) |
| Verdi | Aida (title) Attilla (Odabella) Un Ballo In Maschera (Amelia) La Forza del Destino (Lenora) Macbeth (Lady Macbeth) Otello (Desdemona) Nabucco (Abigaille) Il trovatore (Leonora) |
| Beethoven | Symphony No.9 |
|---|---|
| Berlioz | Les nuits d’été |
| Fauré | Requiem |
| Mahler | Rückert-Lieder |
| Poulenc | Gloria |
| Respighi | Il Tramonto |
| Vaughan Williams | A Sea Symphony |
| Verdi | Requiem |
| Wagner | Wesendonck Lieder |
Contact
Deborah Sanders
Founder and Director
deborah@arbourartists.com