Maureen O'Flynn - Micaela

Soprano

Acclaimed performing and recording artist Maureen O'Flynn garners enthusiastic praise from critics, peers and audiences on both sides of the Atlantic.  Of a recent opening night performance of Romeo et Juiliette at the Metropolitan Opera house, the New York Times says the soprano “won a deserved ovation from the audience” and Variety exclaims “...not only a superb technician, with the full coloratura arsenal at her disposal, but a sensitive interpreter...” As one of Musical America’s coveted  “Artists to Watch,” Ms. O'Flynn is also regarded as one of the finest interpreters of the role of Gilda in Rigoletto.  She performed the role with the Metropolitan Opera under the baton of Plácido Domingo, Arena di Verona, Covent Garden, La Fenice, Genoa, Italy, Teatro Massimo in Palermo, San Carlo, Naples, Houston Grand Opera, San Diego Opera, Opera Company of Philadelphia, New Israeli Opera, the Israel Philharmonic, and debuted with Dallas Opera, winning the company's Callas Award as “Outstanding New Artist of the Year.”  Likewise, as a renowned Nanetta in Falstaff, she made her La Scala debut in a performance conducted by Riccardo Muti, which was recorded on SONY. Ms. O’Flynn has appeared with the Metropolitan Opera several times as Violetta in La Traviata, a role she has also performed with the Hamburg Staatsoper, at the Palacio Festivales in Santander, Spain, Portland Opera, and with the Dallas Symphony.

Most recent engagements included Juliette in Romeo and Juliette at the Metropolitan Opera, Amina in La Sonnambula at the Opera de la Coruna and Donna Anna in Don Giovanni at the Santander Festival both in Spain, I Puritani at the Deutche Oper Berlin, La Traviata for the Metropolitan Opera and Opera Company of Philadelphia, Konstanze in Abduction from the Seraglio with Opera Omaha, Hanna Glawari in The Merry Widow with Minnesota Opera, the title role in Lucia di Lammermoor in Trieste, Tokyo, and with Florida Grand Opera, her first 3 heroines in The Tales of Hoffmann at Calgary Opera, Leila in The Pearl Fishers with the Michigan Opera Theatre, Micaela in Carmen with the Metropolitan Opera, the Soprano Soloist in Vaughn Williams A Sea Symphony with the Milwaukee Symphony, and Ravel's Scheherezade with the Bozeman Symphony.

In the 2006-2007 Season and beyond, she will perform Violetta in La Traviata at the MET Opera in the Parks, as well as covering the role at the Metropolitan Opera, Marguerite in Faust and Micaela in Carmen with Portland Opera, Pat Nixon in Nixon in China with Cincinnati Opera, Amina in La Sonnambula with Teatro Cervantes, Elena in Donna del Lago with Minnesota Opera, Leila in The Pearl Fishers with Florida Grand Opera,Juliette in Romeo et Juliette with L'Opera de Montreal, Mimi in La boheme with the Minnesota Orchestra, and Opera Omaha’s Gala concert.

In the U.S. and abroad, Ms. O’Flynn enjoys tremendous acclaim and relationships with houses including La Scala, Metropolitan Opera, New York City Opera,  Opéra de Lyon,, Genoa, Italy, Vienna Staatsoper, Hamburgische Staatsoper, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Houston Grand Opera, Dallas Opera, New York City Opera, Opera Company of Philadelphia, Portland Opera, Opera Colorado, the Minnesota Opera, and Cincinnati Opera, and with the Washington Concert Opera, Teatro Massimo Bellini in Catania, Teatro Comunale in Florence, and Bologna's Teatro Comunale.

She made her New York City recital debut at Carnegie Hall, as well as recitals for the Wexford Festival and the Richard Tucker Gala Concert at Avery Fisher Hall, which is broadcast nationally on PBS and has an all-star cast including Barbara Dever, Denyce Graves, Jerry Hadley and Samuel Ramey for concert performances of Grand Opera's Greatest Hits with the Opera Company of Philadelphia, as well as Broadways Greatest Hits with Jerry Hadley with the Philadelphia Orchestra under the baton of Broadway great Paul Gemignani. She has also appeared in a gala concert with Nicola Ghiaurov, conducted by Riccardo Muti and has appeared as the honored soloist for the televised Christmas Midnight Mass at New York City's famed St. Patrick's Cathedral Additional working in this repertoire include Gorecki's Symphony No. 3 with the Orchestra 2001 in Philadelphia, Rossini Stabat Mater with the Tokyo Shinsei Symphony, Amenaide in Tancredi at Carnegie Hall with the Opera Orchestra of New York, Mahler's Symphony No. 4 and Mozart's Exultate, Jubilate!, Mass in C, Coronation Mass and Requiem Mass; Fauré's Requiem and Handel's Alexander's Feast, Judas Maccabeus and Psalm 112.   She has been awarded prizes by two of opera's most prestigious organizations, the Richard Tucker Foundation Grant and the Opera Index First Prize.