Highlights of her 26/27 season include debuts with the New World Symphony and St. Louis Symphony Orchestra in Ravel’s L’enfant et les sortilèges (La Chatte; L’Écureuil; Un Pâtre) and an appearance with the Plano Symphony Orchestra in Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9.
Last season, Mesko returned to Houston Grand Opera for Il trittico (La maestra delle novizie) and to The Metropolitan Opera for a new production of I puritani (Enrichetta cover).
In the 24/25 season, she made her Lyric Opera of Chicago mainstage debut in Le nozze di Figaro (Marcellina) and debuted with the Sag Harbor Song Festival as a guest soloist. Other recent engagements include her Vancouver Opera debut in Carmen (title role), a return to Opera Theatre of Saint Louis for Julius Caesar (title role), and her debut with the Houston Chamber Choir and Orchestra in the world premiere of Daniel Knaggs’s The Joyful Mysteries.
Mesko made her Metropolitan Opera debut in The Magic Flute (Second Lady) and has returned to the company for Rodelinda (Eduige), Semiramide (Arsace), Carmen (Mercédès), Die Zauberflöte (Zweite Dame), and Il trovatore (Ines), as well as Agrippina (title role cover) and Cendrillon (Le Prince Charmant cover). She also appeared nationwide with the Met’s Rising Stars concert tour.
Other operatic highlights include Carmen (title role) with Houston Grand Opera, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, Tulsa Opera, Vancouver Opera, and Washington National Opera; Le comte Ory (Isolier) with Edmonton Opera; and Julius Caesar (title role) with Opera Theatre of Saint Louis. As a member of the Cafritz Young Artist Program at Washington National Opera, she appeared in Hansel and Gretel (Hansel), Così fan tutte (Dorabella), Madama Butterfly (Suzuki), and The Magic Flute (Second Lady). She has also appeared with The Glimmerglass Festival in Vivaldi’s Catone in Utica (Emilia) and Houston Grand Opera in A Little Night Music (Mrs. Segstrom). Her European debut came in Paris in Lully’s Armide (La Sagesse; Sidonie) with Mercury Baroque and the Théâtre de Gennevilliers.
On the concert stage, Mesko has appeared with the National Symphony Orchestra under Tito Muñoz; the Oregon Bach Festival in Handel’s Hercules (Dejanira); the Columbus and Baltimore Symphony Orchestras in Prokofiev’s Alexander Nevsky under Marin Alsop; and the Alexandria Symphony Orchestra in Mozart’s Requiem. Other concert engagements include Handel’s Messiah at the U.S. Naval Academy and recitals with The Dallas Opera at the Dallas Museum of Art, the George London Foundation at the Morgan Library with tenor Paul Appleby, Dolce Suono Ensemble, Vocal Arts DC in Janáček’s Diary of One Who Disappeared with tenor Toby Spence, and the Schwabacher Debut Recital Series for the San Francisco Opera Center.
Mesko was a National Finalist in The Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, performing with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra under Patrick Summers. She has won First Prize in competitions including the George London Foundation, National Society of Arts and Letters, Annapolis Opera, Virginia Opera, Young Texas Artists, Sun Valley Opera, and Franco-American Vocal Academy. She is among the few singers to have twice received the Richard F. Gold Career Grant, at both Washington National Opera and Central City Opera.
2026-2027
