Mezzo-soprano Janice Meyerson has triumphed in opera houses and concert halls on five continents, bringing her rich tone and dramatic characterizations to a wide-ranging repertoire. Below is a partial list of her career highlights.
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Opera
Selected Opera Engagements
Amneris
Adriano (Rienzi)
De Vlaamse Opera, Antwerp; Chelsea Opera Group, Queen Elizabeth Hall, London; Opera Orchestra of New York; Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona*
Amneris (Aïda)
Frankfurt Opera; Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires; Cincinnati Opera; Kentucky Opera; Opernhaus Halle; Austin Lyric Opera; Des Moines Opera; Mississippi Opera; Taipei City Opera
Azucena (Il Trovatore)
Teatro Municipal, Rio de Janeiro; Teatro Colón, Colombia
Baba the Turk (The Rake’s Progress)
Washington National Opera
Brangäne (Tristan und Isolde)
Philadelphia Orchestra; Tanglewood Orchestra, Leonard Bernstein
Carmen (Carmen)
Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie, Brussels; New York City Opera; Colorado Opera Festival; Teatro Solís, Montevideo
Eboli (Don Carlo)
Essen Opera; National Grand Opera, New York
Filipyevna (Eugene Onegin)
Anchorage Opera
Fricka
Fricka (Das Rheingold)
Staatstheater Kassel
Frugola (Il Tabarro)
Staatstheater Kassel; Arizona Opera
Hérodiade (Hérodiade, Massenet)
Opera Orchestra of New York
Herodias (Salome)
L’Opéra de Montréal; Mississippi Opera; Washington National Opera*; Las Vegas Symphony; New York City Opera*; Florida Grand Opera, Miami
Judith (Bluebeard’s Castle)
New York Philharmonic, Rafael Kubelik; Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City
Kabanicha
Kabanicha (Káťa Kabanová)
Opera Ireland, Dublin; Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona*; Lyric Opera of Chicago*
Klytämnestra (Elektra)
New York Philharmonic,* Lorin Maazel
Kostelnička (Jenůfa)
Staatstheater Kassel; Washington National Opera*
Laura (La Gioconda)
Deutsche Oper Berlin
Madame in Les Bonnes
Madame (Les Bonnes, Bengtson)
Angers-Nantes (France) Opéra
Madame de Croissy (Dialogues of the Carmelites)
Kentucky Opera
Madame Flora (The Medium)
Aspen Music Festival
Mary (Der fliegende Holländer)
Washington National Opera
Mother (Hansel and Gretel)
New Orleans Opera
Mother (The Consul)
Opéra de Nantes; Angers Opéra
Mrs. Grose (The Turn of the Screw)
New York City Opera*; North Carolina Opera
Mrs. Sedley
Mrs. Sedley (Peter Grimes)
Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona; San Diego Opera
Old Woman (Lord Byron’s Love Letter, de Banfield)
Spoleto Festival USA
Olga (Eugene Onegin)
Opera Company of Philadelphia
Phaedra (Hippolyte et Aricie, Rameau)
Freiburg Opera
Preziosilla (La Forza del Destino)
Staatstheater Kassel; Theater Dortmund
Santuzza (Cavalleria Rusticana)
New York City Opera; Staatstheater Mainz
Sorceress (Dido and Aeneas)
Paris, Boston Camerata
Preziosilla
Suzuki (Madama Butterfly)
Houston Grand Opera; Opera Theatre of Saint Louis
Ulrica (Un Ballo in Maschera)
Calgary Opera; Concord Orchestra; Essen Opera
Ursule (Béatrice et Bénédict, Berlioz)
Boston Symphony, Seiji Ozawa
Witch (Hansel and Gretel)
Concord Orchestra
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Orchestral
Selected Orchestral Soloist Engagements
New York Philharmonic
Bartók, Bluebeard’s Castle, Rafael Kubelik
Bernstein, “Jeremiah,” Symphony No. 1
Stravinsky, Les Noces
Strauss, Elektra, Lorin Maazel
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Berlioz, Béatrice et Bénédict, Seiji Ozawa
Bruckner, Te Deum, Seiji Ozawa
Boston Philharmonic
Beethoven, Missa Solemnis
Mahler, Kindertotenlieder
Verdi, Requiem
Philadelphia Orchestra
Wagner, Tristan und Isolde (Brangäne), Leonard Bernstein
American Symphony Orchestra
Mahler, Symphony No. 3
Shostakovich, From Jewish Folk Poetry
Copland, Eight Poems of Emily Dickinson
Dallas Symphony Orchestra
Handel, Messiah, John Eliot Gardiner
Minnesota Orchestra
Mahler, Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen, Leonard Slatkin
Handel, Messiah
Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra
Handel, Belshazzar (Cyrus), Sir Charles Mackerras
Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival
(London Proms, Moscow, & Tanglewood)
Bernstein, Songfest, Leonard Bernstein, conductor
Teatro São Carlo (Lisbon)
Schnittke, Seid nüchtern und wachet (Faust Cantata)
Mexico City Philharmonic
Mahler, Symphony No. 2
Aspen Music Festival
Mahler, Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen
Moscow State Symphony Orchestra
Bernstein, “Jeremiah,” Symphony No. 1, Sarah Caldwell
Calgary Philharmonic
Elgar, The Dream of Gerontius
Knoxville Symphony Orchestra
Prokofiev, Alexander Nevsky
Omaha Symphony
Mahler, Das Lied von der Erde
Mahler, Symphony No. 2
Mahler, Symphony No. 8
Wagner, Wesendonck Lieder
South Dakota Symphony
Brahms, Alto Rhapsody
de Falla, El Amor Brujo
Boston Musica Viva
Berio, Folk Songs
Hindemith, Die junge Magd
St. Cecilia Chorus & Orchestra (Carnegie Hall)
Bach, Christmas Oratorio
Verdi, Requiem; Dvorak, Requiem
Bach, Magnificat; Handel, Messiah
Wyoming Symphony
Chausson, Poème de l’amour et de la mer