MARY MILLS (USA)

Voice Lessons & Master Classes

Acclaimed soprano Mary Mills has sung lead roles on all the major American and European stages in a repertoire that ranges from Monteverdi through Mozart, Verdi, Puccini, Strauss and Wagner to Janacek and contemporary opera. She is equally at home in the Italian, French, German, Slavic and American repertoire and is an important champion of new and challenging music from the early 20th century to the present.

She gave her debut at the Houston Grand Opera, has sung more than eighteen productions at the San Francisco Opera, was acclaimed as Zdenka, Micaela and Mimì at the Metropolitan Opera, and excelled in a number of French roles such as Manon, Micaela and Marguerite the Bastille and Palais Garnier in Paris.

Her repertoire now also includes a select set of more dramatic roles such as Elsa in Wagner’s Lohengrin and Janacek’s Katya Kabanova (both at the Stuttgart State Opera) and she recently originated the title role of Joan of Arc in the first staged production of Walter Braunfels' opera Szenen aus dem Leben der Heiligen Johanna at the Deutsche Oper in Berlin.

Mary Mills regularly works with some of the most notable conductors including Yves Abel, Antonio Allemandi, Marco Armiliato, Gary Bertini, James Conlin,John Demain, Sian Edwards, Mark Elder, Christoph Eschenbach, John Fiore, Ivan Fischer, Neemi Järvi, Armin Jordan, Jiri Kout,  Emmanuel Krivine, Jacques Lacombe, Fabio Luisi, Marc Minkowski, Kirill Petrenko, Carlo Rizzi, Julius Rudel, Donald Runnicles and Ulf Schirmer.