A dynamic and versatile performer with exceptional onstage charisma, soprano Marcy Richardson has captivated audiences performing in opera, new music, musical theater, and oratorio throughout the United States.  Her operatic roles include Mabel (The Pirates of Penzance), Cunegonde (Candide), Pamina (The Magic Flute), Olympia (Les Contes d’Hoffmann), Susanna (Le Nozze di Figaro), Gretel (Hansel and Grete), Adina (L’elisir d’amore), and Dalinda (Ariodante) among others, with companies such as Orlando Opera, Princeton Festival, and Baltimore Opera.

Marcy was a regional winner in the Kurt Weill Foundation for Music's Lotte Lenya Competition for Singers, was recognized with an encouragement award by the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions (Florida District), received another encouragement award in the 2009 Gerda Lissner Foundation Competition, was the audience favorite and first place winner of the Heinz Rehfuss Singing Actor Awards, the fourth place winner of Opera Birmingham’s Cassell Stewart Vocal Competition, and a finalist in the Long Leaf Opera Vocal Competition in Chapel Hill and the Fritz and Lavinia Jensen Foundation Competition.

An avid performer of new music, Ms. Richardson was a member of the Contemporary Vocal Ensemble at Indiana University for 3 years, where she earned her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Voice Performance. While there, she was a soprano soloist in the US premiere of Sven-David Sandström's High Mass, a work she later performed in Minneapolis with the Plymouth Music Series (VocalEssence) under the baton of Philip Brunelle. She has toured Mexico City and Guanajuato, Mexico for the Festival de Cervantino with Aguavá New Music Ensemble, with whom she also appeared as the watchman in John Eaton's microtonal opera, Antigone, at the Tribeca Performing Arts Center in New York City. Additionally, she was invited to Lucerne, Switzerland to take part in the Lucerne Festival Contemporary Music Academy under the direction of Pierre Boulez, where she was the soloist in Webern’s Op. 18.

Equally at home with oratorio and early music, Ms. Richardson sang the Queen of Sheba in George Frideric Handel's Solomon with the Lafayette Bach Chorale Singers, Gabriel in Die Schöpfung at Indiana University, Emmaline in Purcell's King Arthur with the Bloomington Early Music Festival, and the soprano soloist for Mozart’s Vespers and Faure’s Requiem with Mid-America in Alice Tully Hall.

<>No stranger to musical theater, she has performed the roles of  Lili Vanessi in Kiss Me Kate, Cinderella in Into The Woods, and Dream Laurey in Oklahoma! with Brevard Music Center, where she was also dance captain and assistant choreographer. In addition, she played Princess Leonide in Triumph of Love, Lady Thiang in The King and I, and the soprano in the Angel City Four in City of Angels with Timber Lake Playhouse in Mt. Carroll, Illinois, as well as Rosie in Cabaret, tribe member in Hair, and ensemble in On the Town and Once on this Island while studying at Indiana University. Ms. Richardson is a member of the American Guild of Musical Artists and the Actors Equity Association.

10/11/11