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Mezzo-soprano Daniela Mack leads the vanguard of a new generation of opera singers, infusing her artistry with a mix of intensity, adventurousness, and effortless charisma.

This season, Ms. Mack returns to both the Metropolitan Opera and the Los Angeles Opera as Federico García Lorca in the new production Ainadamar, the Lyric Opera of Chicago as Angela in Missy Mazzoli’s The Listeners, and the San Francisco Opera as Idamante in Idomeno. She also makes her debut at the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma as Orsini in Lucrezia Borgia..

Ms. Mack made her Metropolitan Opera as the Kitchen Boy in Rusalka. Other important debuts have included the Royal Opera House-Covent Garden as Rosina in Il barbiere di Siviglia, Teatro Real as Rosmira in Partenope, Teatro de la Maestranza in her role debut as Romeo in Bellini’s I Capuleti e i Montecchi, and with the BBC Philharmonic as Béatrice in Béatrice et Bénédict. She also made her Carnegie Hall debut in a performance of Serse with The English Concert.

An alumna of the famed Adler Fellowship Program at the San Francisco Opera, Ms. Mack has appeared as Rosina in Il barbiere di Siviglia, Idamante in Idomeneo, Siebel in Faust, and Lucienne in Die tote Stadt for her house debut. She also performed the title role of La Cenerentola as a member of the company’s Merola Opera Program.  Other recent opera engagements have included appearances with the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Santa Fe Opera, Washington National Opera, Seattle Opera, Minnesota Opera, Boston Lyric Opera, Lyric Opera of Kansas City, English National Opera, Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Ópera de Oviedo, Opéra National de Bordeaux, and the Verbier Festival.  Her many roles include the title role in Carmen, Charlotte in Werther, Beatrice in Béatrice et Bénédict, Romeo in I Capuletti et I Montecchi, Rosina in Il barbiere di Siviglia, Isabella in L’italiana in Algeri, Angelina in Cenerentola, Bradamante in Alcina, Juno in Semele, Dardano in Amadigi di Gaula,, Rosmira in Partenope, Sesto in Giulio Cesare, Idamante in Idomeneo, and Dorabella in Cosi fan tutte, She also created roles in the world premieres of Kevin Puts and Mark Campbell’s Elizabeth Cree (title role) at Opera Philadelphia, David T. Little and Royce Vavrek’s JFK (Jacqueline Kennedy) at Fort Worth Opera with subsequent performances at Opéra de Montréal, and most recently the title role in Último Sueño de Frida y Diego at the San Francisco Opera.

On the concert stage, Ms. Mack recently made her recital debut at the Kennedy Center with Vocal Arts DC. Other recent concert engagements have included her debuts with the New York Philharmonic under Alan Gilbert, the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Charles Dutoit, Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra under Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, and with the National Symphony Orchestra, Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart Festival, and the Cincinnati Symphony as part of the Cincinnati May Festival. Internationally she has appeared with the Orchestra de la Suisse Romande, Sydney Symphony, Hong Kong Philharmonic, and the Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk. Her concert repertoire includes Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 and Missa solemnis, Handel’s Messiah, Mozart’s Requiem, Ravel’s Shéhérazade, L’heure espagnole and L’enfant et les sortilèges, Falla’s Three-Cornered Hat and La vida breve, Rossini’s Giovanna d’Arco, Vivaldi’s Juditha triumphans, and Canteloube’s Chants d’Auvergne.

Born in Buenos Aires, Ms. Mack studied at Louisiana State University was a finalist in the 2013 BBC Cardiff Singer of the World competition.

SEPTEMBER 2024