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Heidi Melton In the 2008-2009 season, soprano Heidi Melton returns to the San Francisco Opera for her second year in the company’s Adler Young Artists Program. In concert, she will make her debut with the Milwaukee Symphony in a New Year’s Eve Gala performance of Beethoven Symphony No. 9, and she will also perform Mahler Symphony No. 4 with California’s North State Symphony Orchestra. In the spring, she returns to L’Opera de Bordeaux to sing her role debut of Elisabeth in Tannhäuser. In the 2009-2010 season, she will sing concert... more performances of Chrysothemis in Strauss’ Elektra with Milwaukee Symphony. In the 2007-2008 Ms. Melton made her debut at L’Opera de Bordeaux in the role of Amelia in Un Ballo in Maschera. For San Francisco Opera, she performed a number of roles including Mary Todd Lincoln in the world premier of Phillip Glass’ Appomattox, Marianne Leitmetzerin in Der Rosenkavalier, and Dianne in Iphigenie en Tauride. Additionally that season, she performed the role of Gertrude in Hansel and Gretel with Philadelphia Opera Company. In concert, she sang with the Berkeley Symphony in Golijov’s “Night of the Flying Horses” and Shostakovich’s “From Jewish Poetry.” With Napa Valley Symphony, she sang Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9. She was also invited to sing two prestigious recitals: The Schwabacher Debut Recital through the San Francisco Opera, and a recital for the Jussi Bjorling Society in Voxna, Sweden. As a 2006 participant in the Merola Opera Program, she performed Amelia in scenes from Simon Boccanegra at Yerba Buena Gardens. Additionally, she performed the roles of Miss Grose in Turn of the Screw, Ariadne in Ariadne auf Naxos, Alcina in Alcina, Lady Billows in Albert Herring, and Fiordiligi in Cosi fan tutte all with Curtis Opera Theater. Additional concert performances include the Szymanowski Stabat Mater and Schubert Mass in A with the Eastman Philharmonic Orchestra, Beethoven Mass in C with Eastman Summer Sing, Bach Mass in F with Curtis Madrigal Singers and the Philadelphia premiere of Richard Danielpour’s cycle, Sweet Talk. In 2008, Ms. Melton won a Sarah Tucker Study Grant from the Richard Tucker Music Foundation, and she won third place in the 27th Annual Belevedere Competition. In 2006 she was a national semi-finalist at the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions as well as the winner of the Mario Lanza Competition. O1C Performances: Heidi Melton sings Heidi Melton |
