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Janice Meyerson
Mezzo-soprano Janice Meyerson (First Maid) made her professional debut as Brangäne in Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde with The Philadelphia Orchestra led by Leonard Bernstein, and has since appeared as soloist with many orchestras, including the New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia and Minnesota Orchestras, and the Boston National, New Orleans, and American symphony orchestras. In 2007–08 Miss Meyerson was heard in the title role in Bizet’s Carmen at the Teatro Solís in Montevideo, Uruguay; as the Prioress in Poulenc’s Dialogues of the Carmelites at the Kentucky Opera in Louisville; and at the Kennedy Center with the Washington National Opera in Wagner’s Der fliegende Holländer. Other appearances have included leading roles with Deutsche Oper Berlin, Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, Frankfurt Opera, New York City Opera (including the title role in Carmen), Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels, L’Opéra de Montréal, and at the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City. In 2007 Ms. Meyerson returned to the Washington National Opera for Janáček’s Jenůfa, and sang Madame Raquin in the New York premiere of Tobias Picker’s Thérèse Raquin with DiCapo Opera. Recent seasons have included an appearance as contralto soloist with Leon Botstein and the American Symphony Orchestra in Shostakovich’s From Jewish Folk Poetry at the Bard Music Festival, where she also appeared in 2005–06 as soloist in the orchestral version of Copland’s Eight Poems of Emily Dickinson. She last performed with the New York Philharmonic in 1983 in Bernstein’s Symphony No. 1, Jeremiah, conducted by Larry Newland.
Photo of Janice Meyerson: Robert Gilder & Co.
