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X-WR-CALNAME:Jordan Concert Series: Heidi Melton\, soprano
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DESCRIPTION:Heidi Melton\, acclaimed for her “big gleaming soprano” (Th
 e New York Times) and hailed by La Presse as “the Wagnerian voice we hav
 e been waiting for since Flagstad and Nilsson\,” has established herself
  as one of the leading dramatic sopranos of her generation. Known for her 
 interpretations of the works of Wagner\, Strauss\, and other late Romantic
  composers\, she is a frequent guest at the world’s foremost opera house
 s and concert halls. In the 25/26 season she performs Strauss’s Vier let
 zte Lieder with both the Littleton Symphony Orchestra and the Boulder Phil
 harmonic.\n\nMs. Melton has appeared with many of the world's major opera 
 companies\, including The Metropolitan Opera\, San Francisco Opera\, Houst
 on Grand Opera\, Deutsche Oper Berlin\, Oper Frankfurt\, Opernhaus Zürich
 \, Canadian Opera Company\, English National Opera\, Badisches Staatstheat
 er Karlsruhe\, Opéra National de Bordeaux\, Bayreuther Festspiele\, Seatt
 le Opera\, and Teatro La Fenice.\n\nA sought-after interpreter of the grea
 t Wagnerian heroines\, Melton has portrayed Isolde (Tristan und Isolde)\, 
 Sieglinde and Brünnhilde (Die Walküre\, Siegfried\, Götterdämmerung)\,
  Senta (Der fliegende Holländer)\, and Elisabeth and Venus (Tannhäuser).
  Her repertoire also includes Ariadne (Ariadne auf Naxos)\, Amelia (Un bal
 lo in maschera)\, Santuzza (Cavalleria rusticana)\, Mescalina (Le grand ma
 cabre)\, Elsa (Lohengrin)\, and Gertrud (Hänsel und Gretel)\, among other
 s.\n\nOn the concert stage\, she has appeared with the Vienna Philharmonic
 \, Berlin Philharmonic\, London Symphony Orchestra\, New York Philharmonic
 \, Dallas Symphony\, Minnesota Orchestra\, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic\, 
 Netherlands Radio Philharmonic\, Tonkünstler Orchestra (Vienna)\, Orquest
 ra Simfònica de Barcelona i Nacional de Catalunya\, Hong Kong Philharmoni
 c\, New World Symphony\, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra\, Montreal Sympho
 ny Orchestra\, Aspen Music Festival Orchestra\, St. Louis Symphony\, and C
 olorado Springs Philharmonic.\n\nMelton’s artistry has led to collaborat
 ions with many of the world’s most celebrated conductors\, including Val
 ery Gergiev\, Sir Simon Rattle\, Fabio Luisi\, Donald Runnicles\, Alan Gil
 bert\, Jaap van Zweden\, Kirill Petrenko\, Zubin Mehta\, Karina Canellakis
 \, Eun Sun Kim\, Andres Orozco-Estrada\, Kent Nagano\, Marin Alsop\, James
  Gaffigan\, Markus Stenz\, Robert Spano\, and Patrick Summers.\n\nNotable 
 career highlights include her debut with the Vienna Philharmonic performin
 g the Immolation Scene from Götterdämmerung under Valery Gergiev at both
  the Musikverein and Carnegie Hall\; her Bayreuth Festival debut as Siegli
 nde in Die Walküre\; a BBC Proms appearance as Elisabeth in Tannhäuser w
 ith Donald Runnicles\; and the role of Isolde in Tristan und Isolde with t
 he Mariinsky Orchestra. Her discography includes Tristan und Isolde with t
 he Mariinsky Orchestra (Gergiev) and Wagner’s Siegfried and Die Walküre
  with the Hong Kong Philharmonic (van Zweden) on the Naxos label. She also
  appears on The Metropolitan Opera’s commercially released Ring Cycle co
 nducted by Fabio Luisi (Deutsche Grammophon).\n\nA graduate of the Eastman
  School of Music and the Curtis Institute of Music\, Melton is a winner of
  the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions\, the Sara Tucker Award
 \, and the Hans Gabor Belvedere Competition.\n\nMs. Melton proudly shares 
 her expertise with Turn The Spotlight\, a foundation working to identify\,
  nurture\, and empower leaders – and in turn\, to illuminate the path to
  a more equitable future in the arts. Turn The Spotlight offers mentorship
  by and for exceptional women\, people of color\, and members of other equ
 ity-seeking groups in the arts.
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SUMMARY:Jordan Concert Series: Heidi Melton\, soprano
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