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 International Opera Review praised her "very beautiful voice” and her delightful portrayal of the flighty Dorabella.  For her role as Meg Page in Falstaff with Opera North, Opera News commended Ms. Ziegler’s ”game, well-sung Meg.”

Upcoming engagements for the 2008-2009 season include Dorabella (Cosi fan tutte) with Cape Cod Opera, and Dinah (Trouble in Tahiti) with Connecticut Concert Opera.  Ms. Zieglers' recent performances include Dido (Dido and Aeneas) with Connecticut Lyric Opera, mezzo soloist at the Sanibel Music Festival, and Hänsel (Hänsel and Gretel) with Opera Theater of Connecticut.  During her two-year residency with Connecticut Opera, Ms. Ziegler performed the roles of Mercedes (Carmen), Zulma (L’Italiana in Algeri), and Inez (Il Trovatore).   

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 and Barcarolles.  Closer to home, she has appeared as a soloist in Berlioz’s Les nuits d’été as well as in Bach’s St. John’s Passion and Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass, with both the Holyoke Civic Symphony and the New Haven Oratorio Choir, respectively. 

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 prize winner (Second place) of the Connecticut Opera Guild Scholarship Competition.  She received 2nd Prize from the 2007 Amici Vocal Competition (Young Professional Division).