MARIA ZIFCHAK MRS. PATRICK DE ROCHER ATLANTA OPERA DEBUT: COLD SASSY TREE, 2008
Maria Zifchak sings Mrs. De Rocher, a role she’s also performed with Central City Opera, Lyric Opera of Kansas City, Teatro Réal in Madrid and a live BBC radio broadcast with London Symphony. She is thrilled to return to The Atlanta Opera after performing last summer as Mrs. Lovett in Sweeney Todd. During this 2018-19 season, she also returned to the Metropolitan Opera to sing Annina in a new production of La traviata and Third Lady in The Magic Flute. She also returned to Seattle Opera as Mrs. Grose in The Turn of the Screw. Upcoming engagements include the role of Serena Joy in a new production of Poul Ruders’ The Handmaid’s Tale; her debut with Boston Lyric Opera this Spring.
KAREN SLACK SISTER ROSE
ATLANTA OPERA DEBUT: COLD SASSY TREE, 2008 Soprano Karen Slack was recently heard as Donna Anna in Don Giovanni with Nashville Opera, Serena in Porgy and Bess with the National Chorale and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Sister Rose in Dead Man Walking with both Lyric Opera of Kansas City and Vancouver Opera, and Anna in Le villi her debut with the Scottish Opera. The 2017-18 season included Sister Rose in Dead Man Walking with Kentucky Opera and Minnesota Opera, Serena in Porgy and Bess with the University of Michigan, her debut with New Orleans Opera as Emelda Griffith in Champion, and Micäela in Carmen with Mill City Summer Opera. She made her Carnegie Hall debut as Agnes Sorel in Tchaikovsky’s Maid of Orleans, a role she also performed with the San Francisco Opera and has sung the title role in Aïda with Lyric Opera of Kansas City. She made her Metropolitan Opera and international radio broadcast debuts in the title role of Verdi’s Luisa Miller. Other notable engagements include Serena in Porgy and Bess with Lyric Opera of Chicago and the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra; Tosca; Leonora in Il trovatore and Alice Ford in Falstaff with Arizona Opera; and Emelda Griffithin Champion with Opera Parallèle. The 2018-19 season sees her as Addie Parker in Yardbird with Arizona Opera, Tosca with Opera Birmingham, Serena in Porgy and Bess with Fort Worth Opera, and her debut with Opera Theatre of St. Louis in Fire Shut Up In My Bones.
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