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BIOGRAPHY

"AUDREY BABCOCK STOOD OUT WITH A RADIANT  MEZZO-SOPRANO AND A FITTINGLY TART SENSE OF HUMOR."

- THE STAR LEDGER

Audrey Babcock is an award-winning mezzo-soprano who is quickly gaining notoriety for her commanding, powerful performances as Carmen and her dark, hypnotic portrayals of Maddalena in Rigoletto. As Carmen, Ms. Babcock made her French debut with the Festival Lyrique-en-Mer and has performed the role with Florentine Opera, Nashville Opera, Florida Grand Opera, New York City Opera, San Antonio Opera, Knoxville Opera, Opera Delaware, Toledo Opera, Anchorage Opera, Dayton Opera, Fort Worth Opera, Mill City Summer Opera, and Utah Festival Opera where The Salt Lake Tribune wrote “Audrey Babcock's performance as Carmen was a spellbinding tour de force...from the moment she took the stage her self-assured characterization was mesmerizing ...Babcock's caramel-hued mezzo was a pleasure…her supple tones caressed the notes, radiating earthy allure.”

 

Widely recognized as a choice singer for new works, Ms. Babcock has premiered several new operas including Tobias Picker’s Thérèse Raquin (NY Premiere - Dicapo Opera)With Blood, With Ink (World Premiere - Fort Worth Opera), La Reina (American Lyric Theater, NY and Prototype Festival)The Poe Project (American Lyric Theater), and appeared as Mother in Winter’s Tale with Beth Morrison’s Prototype Festival in NYC in 2015. Last season’s engagements included the title role in The Tragedy of Carmen with Opera Santa Barbara as well as a cancelled concert with the Santa Barbara Symphony. Ms. Babcock’s engagements for the 2021-2022 season include Lily; her life, his music with Marble City Opera, Mama in Why I Live at the P.O. with UrbanArias, and Verdi’s Requiem with the Reading Symphony Orchestra.

ADAMO
LITTLE WOMEN
JO
BARBER
VANESSA
ERIKA
BERLIOZ
LES TROYENS
DIDON
BIZET
CARMEN
CARMEN
BRITTEN
THE RAPE OF LUCRETIA
LUCRETIA
BRITTEN
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM
HERMIA
BRITTEN
THE TURN OF THE SCREW
MISS JESSEL
FLOYD
SUSANNAH
MRS. MCCLEAN
BIZET
CARMEN
CARMEN
GIORDANO
ANDREA CHENIER
CARMEN
HANDEL
GIULIO CESARE
CORNELIA
HANDEL
SERSE
AMASTRE
HANDEL
ALCINA
RUGGIERO
HEGGIE
DEAD MAN WALKING
SISTER HELEN
MASCAGNI
CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA
SANTUZZA
MASSENET
WERTHER
CHARLOTTE
BIZET
CARMEN
CARMEN
BIZET
CARMEN
CARMEN
MONTEVERDI
L’INCORONAZIONE DI POPPEA
OCTAVIA
MOZART
DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE
THIRD LADY
MOZART
DON GIOVANNI
DONNA ELVIRA
MOZART
COSI FAN TUTTE
DORABELLA
MUSSORGSKI
BORIS GODUNOV
MARINA
OFFENBACH
LES CONTES D’HOFFMAN
NICKLAUSSE/GIULIETTA
PONCHIELLI
LA GIOCONDA
LAURA
PUCCINI
MADAMA BUTTERFLY
SUZUKI
PURCELL
DIDO AND AENEAS
DIDO
ROSSINI
L’ITALIANA IN ALGERI
ISABELLA
ROSSINI
LA CENERENTOLA
ANGELINA
SOSA
LA REINA
REGINA MALVERDE
STRAVINSKY
THE RAKE’S PROGRESS
BABA THE TURK
TCHAIKOVSKY
EUGENE ONEGIN
OLGA
TCHAIKOVSKY
QUEEN OF SPADES
PAULINE
THOMAS
MIGNON
MIGNON
VERDI
RIGOLETTO
MADDALENA

OPERATIC REPERTOIRE

BACH
B MINOR MASS
BACH
CHRISTMAS ORATORIO
BACH
EINE FESTE BURG
BACH
ST. JOHN PASSION
BACH
ST. MATTHEW PASSION
C. P. E. BACH
MAGNIFICAT
BEETHOVEN
9TH SYMPHONY
BERG
SEVEN EARLY SONGS
BERLIOZ
LES NUITS D'ÉTÉ
BERLIOZ
BEATRICE AND BENEDICT
DE FALLA
SIETE CANCIONES POPULARES ESPAÑOLAS
DURUFLÉ
REQUIEM
ELGAR
THE DREAM OF GERONTIUS
HANDEL
MESSIAH
MAHLER
SONGS OF A WAYFARER
MAHLER
RUCKERT LIEDER
MAHLER
SYMPHONY #2
MENDELSSOHN
ELIJAH
MOZART
MASS IN C MINOR
MOZART
REQUIEM
MOZART
VESPERS
VERDI
REQUIEM

CONCERT REPERTOIRE

ADAM GUETTEL
A LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA
FRANCA NACCARELLI
A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC
DESIREE ARMFELDT/
PETRA
INTO THE WOODS
WITCH
KURT WEILL/
BERTOLT BRECHT
MAHAGOHNNY
LEOKADJA BEGBICK
MITCH LEIGH/
JOE DARION
MAN OF LA MANCHA
ALDONZA/
DULCINEA
LIONELBART/
CHARLES DICKENS
OLIVER
NANCY
KURT WEILL/
BERTOLT BRECHT
SEVEN
DEADLY SINS
ANNA
STEPHEN SONDHEIM
SIDE BY SIDE
WOMAN 1
STEPHEN SONDHEIM/
HUGH WHEELER
SWEENEY TODD
MRS. LOVETT/
BEGGAR WOMAN
KURT WEILL/
BERTOLT BRECHT
THREEPENNY OPERA
JENNY
HARVEYSCHMIDT/
TOM JONES
11O IN THE SHADE
LIZZIE

MUSIC THEATER REPERTOIRE

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