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Margaret Peterson
Mezzo-soprano

 








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"Later the Same Evening"




Ms. Peterson recently performed Mercedes in Carmen with Connecticut Grand Opera. She performs as section leader and soloist with the Ocean Grove Festival this Summer and also performs as soloist in the Duruflé Requiem with the Summit Music festival also in New Jersey. To begin the Fall season  Margaret makes her debut with the Macau International Festival of Music singing the Second Witch and covering Dido in Dido and Aeneas.

During the 2009-2010 season Margaret was a resident artist with Dicapo Opera Theatre in New York City. As part of the program she was seen in Tobias Picker’s Emmeline in New York City in September followed by an international live broadcast in Hungary in November. Margaret also sang Maddalena in the DiCapo’s mainstage production of Verdi’s Rigoletto. In December she performed Cleone in Faure’s Penelope at Manhattan School of Music. She was also featured in a Broadway Gala concert under the baton of Paul Gemignani and with direction by Lonny Price in January, alongside Broadway artists such as Zoe Caldwell, Jenn Colella, Marian Mazzie and Donna McKechnie.  This October, Margaret makes her debut with the Macau International Festival of Music singing the Second Witch and covering Dido in Dido and Aeneas.

As a recipient of both the Orvis Opera Award and the 2006 ASCAP Award, she was a member of New Jersey Opera in 2007.  Previous performance credits include Estelle in the New York Premiere of Later the Same Evening, the Mother in Amahl and the Night Visitors, Sorceress in Dido and Aeneas, Jan in The Golden Gate, and Sara in Binding of Isaac. 

Equally at home in musical theater, she has performed the roles of Edwin Drood in The Mystery of Edwin Drood and Cinderella in Into the Woods, as well as the American Musical Theater Ensemble's Defying Gravity, a Stephen Schwartz Review, and George & Lenny, Bernstein and Gershwin in Review.  She holds a Bachelor's Degree from Manhattan School of Music and is a candidate for the Master's Degree.


6/23/10