Meredith Arwady

Contralto Meredith Arwady sings Auntie in Britten’s Peter Grimes at HGO this season. She made her company debut in 2009 as Myrtle Bagot in Brief Encounter by André Previn, to great acclaim. Her recent credits include the Abbess in Suor Angelica and Zita in Gianni Schicchi in Puccini’s Il Trittico at San Francisco Opera. She also appeared as the Marquise of Berkenfield in Donizetti’s La Fille du Régiment at both San Francisco Opera and the Metropolitan Opera. In Europe, she made her debut at Frankfurt Opera as Erda in Wagner’s Das Rheingold. Her recent concert credits include Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with Loren Maazel and the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Handel’s Messiah with the Washington National Symphony and Mahler’s Eighth Symphony at the Vienna Konzerthaus under the baton of Bertrand de Billy. Ms. Arwady made her debut at the Santa Fe Opera as Gaea in Richard Strauss’s Daphne and performed there as Pasqualita in Doctor Atomic by John Adams, a role she has also sung at the Metropolitan Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, English National Opera and with the Atlanta Symphony. Her other Lyric Opera of Chicago credits include Mistress Quickly in Verdi’s Falstaff, Tisbe in Rossini’s La Cenerentola, the Third Lady in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte and She-Ancient in A Midsummer Marriage by Michael Tippett. She also appeared there in productions of Richard Strauss’s Die Frau ohne Schatten, Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette and Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmélites. The Michigan native was a winner of the 2004 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions and is an alumna of the Merola Opera Program at San Francisco Opera Center. She holds a master’s degree from the Curtis Institute of Music.