Mary Phillips has appeared with the Metropolitan Opera (Waltraute, Preziosilla), Canadian Opera (Fricka, Eboli), San Francisco Opera, Dallas Opera, Seattle Opera, Barcelona’s Teatre de Gran Liceu and the Edinburgh Festival. This year Ms. Phillips sings Azucena/Il Trovatore for Seattle, Miss Jessel/Turn of the Screw for Portland Opera and Fricka/Die Walküre for Hawaii Opera Theatre.
Ms. Phillips’ concert appearances include countless performances Mahler’s Symphony No. 2, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, the Verdi Requiem and Handel’s Messiah with leading orchestras throughout the United States. Recent and upcoming performances include Mahler Symphony No. 8 ‘Mulier Samaritana’ with the New York Philharmonic, Das Lied von der Erde at the Brevard Festival, Mozart Requiem with the Memphis Symphony, Mahler 2 with the Portland Symphony, and Handel Messiah with the Seattle Symphony. She holds degrees in both music and theater from Rhode Island College, and a Master’s Degree in Music from Yale University. She resides in New York City with her son, Max.
“Mezzo-soprano Mary Phillips gave a radiant performance as Fricka, projecting both the pain of the neglected wife and the fury of the goddess whose rites have been flouted.” --Globe and Mail
Listen to Mary Phillips:
Tchaikovsky "Prasti tye vi" from Jeanne d'Arc
Verdi "O don fatale" from Don Carlos
Wagner "So ist es denn aus" from Die Walküre
Bach "Qui sedes ad dextram Patris" from B Minor Mass
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“Mary Phillips sang with the utmost sensitivity to the text, expressing the soul’s intense desire for life in heaven.”
--The Post-Standard
