Melody Moore, soprano

Melody Moore, soprano, enjoys a thriving career on the world’s leading stages, prompting Opera News to label her “a revelation.” This season, she makes her role and house debut as the Foreign Princess in Rusalka at Cincinnati Opera, revisits her acclaimed portrayal of Senta in Die fliegende Holländer in a return to the Teatro Municipal de Santiago, and joins the roster of the Metropolitan Opera, covering the role in a new production. Concert highlights include a debut with Houston Symphony Orchestra in Mahler’s Das klagende Lied under the baton of Music Director Andrés Orozco-Estrada, the title role in Strauss’s Salome at Bard College, and a solo recital at Lawrence University. Her solo recital performances have included a sold-out debut recital at Carnegie Hall and the Collaborative Arts Institute of Chicago, as well a program featuring suppressed music of the Holocaust presented under the auspices of the Atlanta Opera. A graduate of the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, Melody Moore is a former Adler Fellow of San Francisco Opera and a participant of the Merola program. This season marks the release of her first solo album entitled An American Song Album with pianist Bradley Moore on Pentatone Records.