GMHC Presents:
Maureen O'Flynn, Soprano
American Soprano Maureen O'Flynn, deemed an "Artist to Watch" by Musical America,
has garnered enthusiastic acclaim from critics, peers and audiences on both sides of
the Atlantic. Ms. O'Flynn is currently regarded as one of the finest interpreters of
the role of Gilda in Rigoletto. She has performed the role with the Metropolitan Opera
under the baton of Plácido Domingo, Arena di Verona, Covent Garden, La Fenice, Genoa,
Italy, Teatro Massimo in Palermo, San Carlo, Naples, Houston Grand Opera, San Diego
Opera, Opera Company of Philadelphia, New Israeli Opera, and the Israel Philharmonic.
She also sang Gilda for her debut with Dallas Opera for which she won the company's
1995 Callas Award as Outstanding New Artist of the Year. Ms. O'Flynn has appeared
with the Metropolitan Opera several times as Juliette in Gounod's Roméo et Juliette
and as Violetta in La Traviata, a role she has also performed with the Hamburg
Staatsoper, at the Palacio Festivales in Santander, Spain, Portland Opera, and
with the Dallas Symphony at the Vail Music Festival.
Most recently, engagements have included I Puritani at the Deutche
Oper Berlin, La Traviata for the Metropolitan Opera and Opera
Company of Philadelphia, Hanna Glawari in The Merry Widow with Minnesota
Opera, the title role in Lucia di Lammermoor in Trieste and Tokyo, her
first 3 heroines in The Tales of Hoffmann at Calgary Opera, Leila in
The Pearl Fishers with the Michigan Opera Theatre, and Micaela in Carmen
with the Metropolitan Opera. Upcoming engagements include Juliette in
Romeo and Juliette at the Metropolitan Opera, the title role in Semele
at Arizona Opera, the annual Richard Tucker Opera Gala, and Ravel's
Scheherezade with the Bozeman Symphony.
Ms. O'Flynn made her European debut with Opéra de Lyon in Concert,
followed by appearances there as Mlle. Silberklang in Mozart's The Impresario.
She made her La Scala debut as Nannetta in Falstaff conducted by Riccardo Muti
which was recorded on SONY. Additional European engagements include her
critically acclaimed role debut in Massenet's Manon in Genoa, Italy, Elvira
in I puritani and Lucia di Lammermoor with the Vienna Staatsoper — a production
recorded for Austrian television in celebration of Donizetti's bicentennial,
Konstanze in Die Entführung aus dem Serail in her triumphant Hamburgische
Staatsoper debut, Giulietta in I Capuleti e i Montecchi with the Teatro
Massimo Bellini in Catania, the title role of La sonnambula at the Teatro
Comunale in Florence, and Elvira in I puritani at Bologna's Teatro Comunale.
American engagements have included Léila in a new production
of Bizet's Les pêcheurs de perles with the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Juliette
in Roméo et Juliette with Houston Grand Opera and Dallas Opera, Susanna
in Le nozze di Figaro for New York City Opera in a nationally televised
broadcast on PBS's Live from Lincoln Center, Marie in La fille du régiment
with the Opera Company of Philadelphia, Adina in L'elisir d'amore for Portland
Opera and Dallas Opera, Marguerite in Faust with Opera Colorado, Lucia di
Lammermoor with Opera Company of Philadelphia, Portland Opera, the Minnesota
Opera, and Cincinnati Opera, and with the Washington Concert Opera, Linda di
Chamounix and Amina in La sonnambula.
She made her New York City recital debut at Weill Recital Hall at
Carnegie Hall, has performed in recital for the Wexford Festival, has
made several appearances to the annual, star-studded Richard Tucker Gala
Concert at Avery Fisher Hall which is broadcast nationally on PBS, has
lead an all-star cast including Barbara Dever, Denyce Graves, Jerry Hadley
and Samuel Ramey for concert performances of Grand Opera's Greatest Hits
with the Opera Company of Philadelphia as well as Broadways Greatest Hits
with Jerry Hadley with the Philadelphia Orchestra under the baton of
Broadway great Paul Gemignani. She has also appeared in a gala concert
with Nicola Ghiaurov, conducted by Riccardo Muti.
She has appeared as the honored soloist for the televised Christmas Midnight
Mass at New York City's famed St. Patrick's Cathedral, in Gorecki's Symphony
No. 3 with the Orchestra 2001 in Philadelphia, in Rossini Stabat Mater with
the Tokyo Shinsei Symphony, and as Amenaide in Tancredi at Carnegie Hall with
the Opera Orchestra of New York. Additional works in this repertoire include
Mahler's Symphony No. 4 and Mozart's Exultate, Jubilate!, Mass in C, Coronation
Mass and Requiem Mass; Fauré's Requiem and Handel's Alexander's Feast,
Judas Maccabeus and Psalm 112. She has been awarded prizes by two of opera's
most prestigious organizations, the Richard Tucker Foundation Grant and the
Opera Index First Prize.
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