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Deborah Mayer
Soprano Deborah Mayer recently made her Metropolitan Opera
debut as Gerhilde in DIE WALKÜRE in Robert LePage’s new
landmark production of The Ring Cycle conducted by Fabio
Louisi. She also recently debuted at the Tanglewood Music
Festival reprising the role of Gerhilde with the Boston
Symphony. Ms. Mayer has also sung the role of Brunnhilde
SIEGFRIED in concert with the Toledo Symphony and the
Immolation scene from GOTTERDAMMERUNG. Ms. Mayer’s Paris debut
was at the Theatre de Chatelet as Ada in Richard Wagner’s
first opera DIE FEEN, led by Marc Minkowski and acclaimed
stage director Emilio Sagi. The Wiener Zeitung hailed her
performance as a ‘magical, then dramatic Ada.” This role
represented her foray into Wagnerian repertory with the
Mainfranken Theater Würzburg in celebration of the theater’s
200th Anniversary. Of her performance the Frankfurter Neue
Presse exclaimed “Hochdramatische, Deborah Mayer (Ada)
portrayed the Wagnerian role to its fullest. A real
Wagnerian!”
Other important season highlights include Donna Anna DON
GIOVANNI (Landestheater Salzburg), Abigaille NABUCCO, Donna
Anna DON GIOVANNI, Elettra IDOMENEO and Martha Marnis LIMONEN
AUS SIZILIEN by Manfred Tojahn in a new version of the work,
directed by the composer. Ms. Mayer has sung Leonora IL
TROVATORE with the Baltimore Opera, conducted by Christian
Badea, the title role in AIDA with Opera Roanoke Opera, and
TOSCA at Opera Theater of Connecticut. Her professional debut
was Violetta LA TRAVIATA with Palm Beach Opera under Anton
Guadagno.
Ms. Mayer’s European concert debut was as the soprano soloist
in Verdi’s MESSA DI REQUIEM with the Philharmonia Orchestra
London at the Chichester Festival. She reprised this role in
Würzburg, Germany as well as singing Beethoven’s 9TH SYMPHONY
with the Würzburg Philharmonic Orchestra under Daniel Klajner
for the 60th Anniversary commemoration of the end of World War
II. This season she will reprise Beethoven’s 9TH SYMPHONY with
the South Bend Symphony and sing the role of the Widow in
Mendelssohn’s ELIJAH opposite Nathan Gunn. Other recent
performances include Wagner’s WESENDONCK LIEDER in Seoul,
Korea with the Daejeon Philharmonic at the Seoul Arts Center
for a concert that was telecast nationally.
An accomplished recitalist, Ms. Mayer was invited to perform
by the Richard Wagner Society of Bayreuth to present a recital
in Bayreuth. She holds the distinction of being the first
American awarded a stipendium by this prestigious
organization. She was a winner in the 2010 Liederkranz Wagner
Competition and performed in the Winners’ concert at Carnegie
Hall.
She received her Bachelor of Music, and Master of Music
degrees from Indiana University and studied with Virginia
Zeani and Nicola Rossi-Lemeni.
March 2015