This season, up and coming mezzo-soprano Tamara Mumford returns the Metropolitan Opera in the new productions of
Anna Bolena and the complete
Ring Cycle, and appears in the world premiere of John Adam’s new oratorio,
The Gospel According to the Other Mary, with Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic. She also appears in concert with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and the Utah Symphony.
A graduate of the Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program, Ms. Mumford made her debut there as Laura in
Luisa Miller, and has since appeared in their productions of
Rigoletto, Ariadne auf Naxos, Il Trittico, Parsifal, Idomeneo, Cavalleria Rusticana, Nixon in China, The Queen of Spades, the complete Ring Cycle, and
The Magic Flute. Other recent opera engagements have included the title role in the American premiere of Henze’s
Phaedra and the title role in
The Rape of Lucretia at the Opera Company of Philadelphia, the title role in
Dido and Aeneas at the Glimmerglass Opera, Ottavia in
L'incoronazione di Poppea at the Glyndebourne Opera Festival and the BBC Proms, Isabella in
L’Italiana in Algeri at the Palm Beach Opera, the title role in
The Rape of Lucretia, conducted by Lorin Maazel at the Castleton Festival; the title role in
Carmen at the Crested Butte Music Festival, Principessa in
Suor Angelica and Ciesca in
Gianni Schicchi with the Orchestra Sinfonica Giuseppe Verdi di Milano in Italy; and the title role in
La Cenerentola at Utah Festival Opera. ...
read full bioThis season, up and coming mezzo-soprano Tamara Mumford returns the Metropolitan Opera in the new productions of
Anna Bolena and the complete
Ring Cycle, and appears in the world premiere of John Adam’s new oratorio,
The Gospel According to the Other Mary, with Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic. She also appears in concert with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and the Utah Symphony.
A graduate of the Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program, Ms. Mumford made her debut there as Laura in
Luisa Miller, and has since appeared in their productions of
Rigoletto, Ariadne auf Naxos, Il Trittico, Parsifal, Idomeneo, Cavalleria Rusticana, Nixon in China, The Queen of Spades, the complete Ring Cycle, and
The Magic Flute. Other recent opera engagements have included the title role in the American premiere of Henze’s
Phaedra and the title role in
The Rape of Lucretia at the Opera Company of Philadelphia, the title role in
Dido and Aeneas at the Glimmerglass Opera, Ottavia in
L'incoronazione di Poppea at the Glyndebourne Opera Festival and the BBC Proms, Isabella in
L’Italiana in Algeri at the Palm Beach Opera, the title role in
The Rape of Lucretia, conducted by Lorin Maazel at the Castleton Festival; the title role in
Carmen at the Crested Butte Music Festival, Principessa in
Suor Angelica and Ciesca in
Gianni Schicchi with the Orchestra Sinfonica Giuseppe Verdi di Milano in Italy; and the title role in
La Cenerentola at Utah Festival Opera.
Also an active concert performer and recitalist, Ms. Mumford recently made her Hollywood Bowl debut in a concert with Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and her Grand Teton Festival debut in concerts with Donald Runnicles. Other recent concert appearances have included her debut at the La Jolla Music Society SummerFest, a performance of Harbison’s
Mottetti di Montale with James Levine and the Met Chamber Orchestra in Zankel Hall, her Carnegie Hall debut in 2005 as part of the Richard Goode and friends concert series in Zankel Hall, an appearance at the Manchester Music Festival, and a solo recital at the Nantucket Musical Arts Society. Ms. Mumford has also developed a strong relationship with the Musicians from Marlboro. She first appeared in their music festival in the summer of 2006, and has since returned to their summer festivals and toured with them throughout the US. In recital she has been presented in New York by both the Marilyn Horne Foundation and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and in Philadelphia by the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society.
Ms. Mumford has appeared in the Metropolitan Opera’s
Met Live in HD series broadcasts of
The Magic Flute, Nixon in China, Manon Lescaut, Das Rheingold, and
Il Trittico, and this season will appear in the broadcast of
Anna Bolena. In 2005 she was one of sixteen singers invited to work with Naxos Records and Yale University in a collaborative project to record the complete songs of Charles Ives.
A native of Sandy, Utah, Ms. Mumford holds a Bachelors of Music from Utah State University. Her many awards include the Arthur E. Walters Memorial Award in the 2005 Opera Index Competition, second place in the advanced division in the 2005 Palm Beach Opera Competition, and awards in the 2005 Sullivan Foundation Competition, the 2005 Connecticut Opera Guild Competition and the 2004 Joyce Dutka Foundation Competition. Ms. Mumford was also a Mathias Winner and PBS Concert Soloist for the 2001 MacAllister Awards.
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