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Meredith Ziegler has
impressed
critics and
audiences alike
with her warm
lyric
mezzo-soprano
voice and her
engaging
characterizations.
Of Ms.
Ziegler’s recent
debut as
Dorabella in
Cosi fan tutte
with Granite
State Opera,
Seen and Heard
Opera Review
praised her
“very beautiful
voice and
delightful
portrayal of the
flighty
Dorabella”.
For her
role as
Meg Page in
Falstaff
with Opera
North, Opera
News commended
her “game, well
sung Meg”.
Recent engagements found Meredith performing as Dorabella in Cosi fan tutte for Cape Cod Opera and Rosina in Il Barbiere di Siviglia for Opera Company of Middlebury in
2009. She
also
performed Dinah in Trouble in Tahiti
for Connecticut
Concert Opera,
Dorabella in
Cosi fan tutte
for Granite
State Opera,
Dido in
Dido & Aeneas
for Connecticut
Lyric Opera in
2008,
Hänsel in
Hänsel & Gretel
for Opera
Theater of
Connecticut and
Meg Page in
Falstaff for
Opera North in
2007. Upcoming
engagements
include
Mallika in
Lakmé for Connecticut Concert Opera and Flora in
La Traviata for Pioneer
Valley Symphony
Orchestra in 2009, and
a Guest Artist
Recital at
Colgate
University in
2010.
Internationally, Ms. Ziegler’s work has taken her to Graz,
Austria where, in 2005, she was a soloist with the AIMS
Festival Orchestra for performances of Bernstein’s
Arias & Barcarolles.
Closer to home she appeared as a soloist in Berlioz’s
Les Nuits d’été, Bach’s
St. John’s Passion,
and Haydn’s
Lord Nelson
Mass with both the Holyoke
Civic Symphony and the New Haven
Oratorio Choir.
Ms. Ziegler was the recipient of a 2008 Encouragement Award from the
prestigious Sullivan
Foundation. She
was a 2007 Regional Finalist in the New England
Metropolitan Opera
National Council Auditions as well as a 2006 second
place prize winner at the
Connecticut Opera
Guild Scholarship
Competition. She
received 2nd prize from the 2007
Amici Vocal
Competition (Young Professional Division).
Meredith holds both Bachelor of Arts in Music and Bachelor
of Science in Music Education degrees as well as her Master
of Music in Vocal Performance degree from the University of
Connecticut.
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