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Soprano Meagan Miller is making celebrated debuts on important stages all over the world, interpreting the leading ladies of Mozart, Strauss, Verdi and Wagner.
Ms. Miller's 2011-12 season includes a series of role debuts: the title role in Richard Strauss' Daphne at the Vienna State Opera, Elisabetta in Verdi's Don Carlo and roles in Wagner's Ring at the Deutsche Oper Berlin. She will also sing Desdemona in Verdi's Otello with the Deutsche Opera Berlin at Grand Théâtre de Luxembourg, Sieglinde in a concert of Act 1 of Wagner's Die Walkyre with the Melbourne Symphony, Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 with the Cleveland Orchestra, two recitals with Lyric Fest in Philadelphia and a duo recital with Marcello Giordani for the George London Foundation at New York's Morgan Library.
Meagan Miller’s future engagements beyond the 2011-12 season include debuts at the Washington National Opera, Opera Monte Carlo, Tokyo's New National Theater, and the Lucerne Festival; plus returns to the Hamburg State Opera and the Vienna State Opera. The roles for these appearances include Donna Anna in Don Giovanni, Rosalinde in Die Fledermaus, Ellen Orford in Peter Grimes, the title role in Ariadne auf Naxos, Sieglinde in Die Walkyre, Eva in Die Meistersinger von Nuernberg, Marie/Marietta in Die Tote Stadt, Minnie in La Fanciulla del West, Elsa in Lohengrin, and Elisabeth in Tannhäuser.
In June 2009, Meagan Miller made her European operatic debut at the Vienna Volksoper as Ariadne in a new production of Ariadne auf Naxos, a successful role debut that led to a series of engagements in her new fach: she reprised Ariadne at Munich's Bayerische Staatsoper, and performed the title role of Haydn's Armida in concert at the Royal Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Eva in new production of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg at Oper Leipzig, Minnie in a new production of La Fanciulla del West at Palermo’s Teatro Massimo, Nyssia in Zemlinsky's Der König Kandaules at the Vienna Volksoper, and the title role in Strauss’ Die Liebe der Danae at the Bard Festival. She also sang Contessa di Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro for her debut at the Hamburg State Opera.
On the operatic stages of North America, Ms. Miller has previously performed (among others) 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, among others.
An accomplished recitalist and noted interpreter of new music, Meagan Miller has given recitals at such 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, the New York Wagner Society, New York's Bohemian, National Hall, 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 significant works by Thomas Cipullo, Christopher Berg, Niccolo Athens and Russell Platt, among others.
Orchestral engagements have taken Ms. Miller to such venues as Amsterdam's Royal Concertgebouw, Hong Kong’s Cultural Center, Rotterdam’s De Dolen, the Edinburgh International Festival, the Hollywood Bowl, Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, Minneapolis’ Orchestra Hall, and the Kennedy Center as a soloist in Strauss' Vier letzte Lieder, Beethoven’s Mass in C, Missa Solemnis, and Symphony No. 9, Haydn’s Creation, Brahms’ Ein Deutsches Requiem, Mozart’s Requiem, Bruckner’s Mass in f-minor, Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 “Resurrection”, Poulenc’s Gloria, Dvorak’s Requiem Braunfels' Te Deum, and Vaughan Williams’ Dona Nobis Pacem. Ms. Miller has performed under the batons of such notable maestri as Bruno Bartoletti, Harry Bicket, Lawrence Foster, Axel Kober, Jacques Lacombe, George Manahan, Edoardo Mueller, Roger Norrington, Eiji Oue, Eve Queler, Joseph Rescigno, Julius Rudel, Donald Runnicles, Markus Stenz and Jaap Van Zweden.
A past Grand Finals winner of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, Meagan Miller is also the 2010 winner of the Robert Launch 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. Ms. Miller has completed several residencies with the Marilyn Horne Foundation and the Wolf Trap Foundation, blending outreach and performance. Meagan Miller was awarded the Peter Menin Prize for “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 New York Recital Debut Award.
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