“A formidable display of vocal power and dramatic assurance,” mezzo-soprano Deborah Nansteel is highly sought-out on major stages. The 2026-2027 season brings a dynamic slate of engagements for Ms. Nansteel, including Emilia in Verdi’s Otello at the Metropolitan Opera, Marthe in Gounod’s Faust and Mrs. McLean in Carlisle Floyd’s Susannah with Houston Grand Opera, and Azucena in Verdi’s Il trovatore with the Sacramento Philharmonic & Opera.
The 2025-2026 season featured a series of notable engagements, including a return to the Metropolitan Opera as Teresa in La sonnambula; a house debut with Minnesota Opera in the world premiere of B.E. Boykin and Harrison David Rivers’ My Name Is Florence; a return to North Carolina Opera as Azucena in Il trovatore as well as the Omniscient Seashell in Strauss’s Die ägyptische Helena at Bard SummerScape. Nansteel recently had house debuts with Los Angeles Opera as Aunt Lou in Highway 1, USA and The Atlanta Opera as Roßweiße in Die Walküre. She also performed the roles of Azucena in Il trovatore with Opera Santa Barbara. Previous engagements included a return to the Metropolitan Opera as Annina in La traviata and for their concert tour of Otello, and her house debut with San Francisco Opera in their productions of Eugene Onegin and Dialogues des Carmélites. She made her debut with The Metropolitan Opera as Alisa in Lucia di Lammermoor, her debut with the Lyric Opera of Chicago as Gertrude in Roméo et Juliette, her Carnegie Hall debut in Mozart’s Coronation Mass, and her New York Philharmonic debut alongside Eric Owens in In Their Footsteps: Great African American Singers and Their Legacy.
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Opera: Verdi, Il Trovatore, in concert
Conductor
Ari Pelto
SopranoAviva Fortunata
TenorDiego Torre
Mezzo-Soprano Deborah Nansteel
Baritone Stephen Powell
BassYoung Bok Kim
Mezzo-SopranoCourtney Miller
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