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Praised for her "bell-like clarity and fine control" and "radient full-bodied voice" by The Washington Post, American soprano Meghan McCall is establishing herself as one of the finest young artists of opera today. She has been hailed for possessing a "beautifully and flawlessly operatic voice" The West Highland Press. In her interpretation of Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro "Meghan McCall made a superlative Susanna on the opening night and was consistently the most outstanding voice in all combinations" All Arts Review, and was "a blooming, vivacious and confident Susanna" The Washington Times.
The young soprano's career has already taken her to stages both in the United States and Europe. Ms. McCall has performed the roles of Fatime in Carl Maria von Weber's Abu Hassan, Fiordiligi in Cosi Fan Tutte, Madame Altina in La Divina (Pasatieri), Lauretta in Gianni Schicchi, Musetta in La Bohème, Adina in L'Elisir d'Amore, Gilda in Rigoletto, Gretel in Hansel and Gretel, Marie in La Fille du Régiment, Giulietta in I Capuleti e i Montecchi, Donna Anna in Don Giovanni, Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro, Princess (#1) in Transformations Lucia in Lucia di Lammermoor, Miss Jessel in The Turn of the Screw and Blondchen in Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail.
Miss McCall has earned her BA in Music Literature from
Northeastern University and her MM from The University of Maryland Opera Studio where she worked with world-renowned bass Francois Loup. Directly after her graduation she was
invited to join the Opera Lafayette Young Artist Program which specializes in 17th and 18th century French repertoire.
Future appearances in 2009 and 2010 will include a duo concert with world renowned Swiss bass, Francois Loup, with the Swiss Embassy in Washington, DC (December 2009), Mary in the world premiere of Oh My Son by Marcos Galvany at Carnegie Hall (April 2010) Laurette and Ernestine in two french comic operas by Bizet and Offenbach with Bel Cantanti (May 2010), and Juliette in Sancho Panza by Philidor with Opera Lafayette at the Kennedy Center (May 2010).
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