| Wendy Hillhouse Artist's Website >> Wendy Hillhouse, mezzo soprano, has achieved a versatility and rare mastery of diverse repertoire. Her operatic career has encompassed performances with the Metropolitan Opera, the Glyndebourne Festival as well as other international companies, and most of the major American opera companies, including the Dallas Opera, San Francisco Opera, and the Seattle Opera Ring Cycle. Mrs. Hillhouse is an accomplished concert artist, having performed with the symphony orchestras of Boston, Seattle, Dallas, Pittsburgh, and Denver, and the Tanglewood, Cabrillo and Midsummer Mozart Festivals, as well as maintaining a busy schedule of Bay Area concert appearances and recordings. She teaches a technique that is suitable for opera, oratorio and concert repertoire, based on strong and flexible breath support. Her students sing with an open, free and centered tone, easy and accurate diction, and an individual timbre free of falsification. She has been on faculty at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music since 1997, was co-chair of the voice department for five years, and currently serves as Faculty Associate to the Dean's Office. She holds degrees from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and the University of California, Berkeley. O1C Performances: Bestiary: Works by Elinor Armer |
