Mary Ann Stewart sang “Mrs. Julian with a clarion dramatic soprano, capable of both fragility and ice-cold
cruelty” according to Steven Jude Tietjen of Opera News, was “a firm and moving Madame Lidoine”
according to Zachary Woolfe of The New York Times and is “...a major operatic talent...” according to Joseph
McLellan of The Washington Post.
Notable engagements include the Baker's Wife in Into the Woods, Mme Flora in The Medium and a cover of Herodias in Salome with Tulsa Opera,
the title role of Tobias Picker’s Thérèse Raquin with Long Beach Opera and Chicago Opera Theater,
Mrs. Julian in Owen Wingrave with LOTNY, Adriano in Rienzi with the National Philharmonic,
the title role in Ariadne auf Naxos, Lady Macbeth in Macbeth, Madame Lidoine in Dialogues des Carmélites
and Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni with dell'Arte Opera Ensemble, Adalgisa in Norma with Bilbao
Opera, Miss Jessel in The Turn of the Screw at the Festival de Opera de Tenerife, Brangäne in Tristan und Isolde
with Virginia Opera, Giovanna Seymour in Anna Bolena with Opera Orchestra of New York, Agathe in Der
Freischütz with Utopia Opera, the Sixth Flowermaiden in Parsifal, Siegrune in Die Walküre and Idamante in
Idomeneo with Washington National Opera, Stéphano in Roméo et Juliette with the Macau Opera Festival, The
Secretary in The Consul with Opera Boston, Isolier in Le Comte Ory with Opéra Royal de Wallonie, Urbain
in Les Huguenots with Orquesta Sinfónica del Estado de México, Old Lady in Candide at the Teatro Argentina in
Rome with Euro Festivale Mediterraneo, the title role in Carmen with Opera in the Heights, Hippolyta in A
Midsummer Night’s Dream with Opéra de Nice and Rose 3 in Jonathan Sheffer’s Off Broadway premiere of
Blood on the Dining Room Floor with the WPA Theater. One of her greatest thrills was singing the Opera Angel
in Gift of Angels II – The Song of an Angel at Universal Studios Japan for three consecutive seasons.
She returned to USJ in 2019-20 to sing the Queen of the Faeries in The Crystal Promise.
Highlights of Mary Ann’s concert engagements include Strauss' Vier letzte Lieder,
Fauré Requiem, Mozart Requiem, and Beethoven’s Mass in C at Carnegie Hall, Handel’s Messiah and Mozart’s Mass in C Minor at Lincoln
Center, Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis at Lehigh University, Ravel’s Schéhérazade at the Ravello Festival, Italy
and Manuel de Falla’s Siete Canciones with Morales Dance Company.
She has had the pleasure to work with conductors Yves Abel, Josep Caballé- Domenech, Richard Cordova,
Jacques Delacôte, John DeMain, Plácido Domingo, Arthur Fagen, Christopher Fecteau, Heinz Fricke, Piotr
Gajewski, Steven Jarvi, Peter Mark, John Massaro, Andreas Mitisek, Steven Osgood, Victor Pablo Pérez, Eve
Queler, Gil Rose, Catherine Venable, Alberto Zedda and David Zinman, as well as directors Arnaud Bernard, Ken Cazan,
Tara Faircloth, PaulÉmile Fourny, Francesca Gilpin, Lillian Groag, Leon Major, John Pascoe, Philip Schneidman, Francesco
Torrigiani, Mariusz Treliński and Francesca Zambello.
Mary Ann is a grant recipient of The Olga Forrai Foundation.
Robert Lombardo: robert@lombardoassociates.org ~ Lewis Ehlers: lewis@lombardoassociates.org ~ Fabrizio Mescoli (Italy and sundry areas in Europe) : office@lombardoassociates.org
30 W 60th St., Suite 3L, New York, NY 10023 USA ~ phone: +1(212) 586-4453 fax: +1(212) 581-5771 www.lombardoassociates.org
Mary Ann Stewart - Lilli
Cathy Venable - piano
Mary Ann Stewart - Sieglinde
Cathy Venable - piano
Mary Ann Stewart - Chrysothemis
Cathy Venable - piano
Mary Ann Stewart - Miss Jessel
Cathy Venable - piano
Recorded April 5, 2021 for the Wagner Society of New York. Lyndon Meyer, pianist and Griffin Kaiser, video editor.
"Stewart and Nichols gave brilliant vocal as well as acting performances, and thrilled as they enacted the terrifying dance of mother and daughter turned against each other by circumstances. "
Independent Review Crew
“…major operatic talent...intelligence, emotive power and a fine precision in the meaningful projection of words”
The Washington Post
Mary Ann Stewart sang “Mrs. Julian with a clarion dramatic soprano, capable of both fragility and ice-cold
cruelty”
Opera News
“Mary Ann Stewart’s performance is a feast for the eyes and ears of all Bel Canto lovers”
Grenz Echo Redakton
"Mary Ann Stewart's voice is gorgeous, lending much power and authority to her Lady Macbeth."
Broadway World
"Mary Ann Stewart brought a firm, burnished mezzo and rich expression to her Brangaene."
Opera News
"Mary Ann Stewart displayed a big, rich voice as Ariadne."
Associated Press
Bellini: Norma - Adalgisa
Bizet: Carmen
Britten: Turn of the Screw - Miss Jessel & Mrs. Grose
Owen Wingrave - Mrs. Julian
Donizetti: Anna Bolena - Giovanna Seymour
Maria Stuarda - Elisabetta
Hoiby: The Scarf - Miriam
Menotti: Amahl & the Night Visitor - The Mother
The Consul - The Secretary
The Medium - Mme Flora
Mozart: Don Giovanni - Donna Elvira
Offenbach: Les contes d’Hoffmann - Giulietta
Picker: Thérèse Raquin
Poulenc: Les dialogues des Carmelites - Mme. Lidoine
Puccini: Tosca*
Turandot*
Sondheim: Into the Woods - The Baker's Wife
Richard Strauss: Ariadne auf Naxos - Ariadne & Komponist
Der Rosenkavalier - Octavian*
Elektra - Chrysothemis*
Salome - Herodias
Conrad Susa: The Dangerous Liaisons - Marquise de Merteuil
Verdi: Un ballo in maschera - Amelia*
Macbeth - Lady Macbeth
Il Trovatore - Leonora*
Falstaff - Alice Ford*
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde - Brangäne
Rienzi - Adriano
Die Walkuere - Sieglinde* and Siegrune
Lohengrin - Elsa*
Tannhäuser - Elisabeth*
Weber: Der Freischütz - Agathe
*Excerpts performed in concert
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