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With her European operatic debut at the Vienna Volksoper as Ariadne in a new production of Ariadne auf
Naxos in June 2009, Meagan Miller had a sensational success, lauded by Der Standard for the "glory of her
unlimitedly resilient beautiful soprano" and by the Kurier as "a fabulous Ariadne, she possesses the large
spans that are essential for Strauss. Miller’s voice is outstanding, has enormous radiance and intimacy;
besides that Miller is an excellent actress. Fantastic!"
This debut has opened a new facet of Ms. Miller's career: the leading ladies of the the Mozart/Strauss/Wagner repertory in important opera houses and concert halls all over the world. In the Fall of 2009, the soprano was lauded at the season opening night at Munich's Bayerische Staatsoper, singing the title role in Ariadne auf Naxos. She also performed Haydn's Armida at the Royal Concertgebouw Amsterdam.
Future seasons will take Ms. Miller to Leipzig, Vienna, Hamburg, Tokyo, Berlin, Amsterdam, Italy and the USA for performances of Nyssia in Zemlinsky's Koenig Kandaules, Strauss' Daphne, Eva in Wagner's Meistersinger, the Countess Almaviva in Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro, Elisabeth in Wagner's Tannhaeuser, and Elisabetta in Verdi's Don Carlo. She will also sing great orchestral works of Strauss, Braunfels, and Mahler, and be presented in recital by the Vidda Foundation.
The young soprano is the 2010 winner of the Robert Lauch Memorial Award from the Wagner Society of New York, a first prize winner of the 2010 Gerda Lissner Competition, the 2008 George London Foundation Vienna Prize winner, and the 2008 winner of George London/Kirsten Flagstad Award sponsored by the New
York Community Trust.
Praised by The New York Times for her "gorgeous and lively tone," "considerable
communicative powers," "commanding presence" and "deep sensibility," Meagan Miller is a riveting leading lady in diverse repertoire. Opera News has hailed Ms. Miller’s "soaring," "rich,
firm voice," and her "impressive vocal strength and tonal shine." Her first performances of Verdi’s
Desdemona were lauded as "absolutely stunning, bordering even on the incredible."
An accomplished recitalist and noted interpreter of new music, Meagan Miller has appeared in more than
thirty professional recitals at such notable venues as Alice Tully Hall, Weill Hall, Zankel Hall, the Austrian Cultural Forum,
the Kosciuszko Foundation, the Juilliard Theater, Steinway Hall, Merkin Concert Hall, Brown University,
Princeton University, the Morgan Library, the Walter Reade Theater, Salzburg’s Schloss Leopoldskron, and the Chrysler Museum. She
has premiered many works written specifically for her voice, including Libby Larsen’s Try Me Good King:
The Last Words of the Wives of Henry VIII and Robert Beaser’s Four Poems of Emily Dickinson. Ms.
Miller has also premiered numerous works by Thomas Cipullo, Christopher Berg, and Russell Platt.
On the operatic stage, Ms. Miller has performed Mozart’s Fiordiligi, Donna Anna, Donna Elvira, Konstanze,
and Countess Almaviva, as well as Verdi’s Violetta, Alice Ford and Desdemona, Puccini’s Musetta, Gounod’s
Marguerite, Johann Strauss’ Rosalinda, Gluck’s Euridice, Floyd’s Susannah, Barber's Cleopatra and Copland’s Laurie. Her
interpretations of these roles have been applauded at the Minnesota Opera, L’Opéra de Montréal, Orlando
Opera, Kentucky Opera, San Francisco Opera’s Merola Program, Wolf Trap Opera, and the Minnesota
Orchestra.
Recent orchestral engagements have taken Ms. Miller to such venues as Hong Kong’s Cultural Center, The Concertgebow Amsterdam,
Rotterdam’s De Dolen, the Hollywood Bowl, Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, Minneapolis’ Orchestra Hall,
and the Kennedy Center as a soloist in Beethoven’s Mass in C, Missa Solemnis, and Symphony No. 9,
Handel’s Messiah, Haydn’s Creation, Brahms’ Ein Deutsches Requiem, Mozart’s Requiem, Bruckner’s
Mass in f-minor, Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 “Resurrection” and Symphony No. 4, Poulenc’s JGloria,
Dvorak’s Requiem and Vaughan Williams’ Dona Nobis Pacem. Ms. Miller has performed under the batons
of Eve Queler, Edoardo Mueller, Harry Bicket, Eiji Oue, Lawrence Foster, Randall Behr, Christopher Larkin, Stephen
Lord, Joseph Rescigno, Roger Norrington, Axel Kober, George Manahan and Julius Rudel.
Ms. Miller has completed several residencies with the Marilyn Horne Foundation and the Wolf Foundation, blending outreach and performance. A grand finals winner of the 1999 Metropolitan Opera
National Council Auditions, Meagan Miller was named “the Outstanding Undergraduate Musician” by the
Juilliard faculty, and was honored with the Juilliard Opera Center’s De Rosa Award. She has also won the
Liederkranz Foundation Competition, a Richard Tucker Music Foundation Study Grant, Syracuse Opera’s
Season’s Best Performance, and the Joy In Singing Award. |
