Kelley O' Connor
mezzo soprano

Performances

September 21/23, 8PM
September 24 3PM
Beethoven Symphony No.9

Kelley O’Connor has received international critical acclaim portraying Federico García Lorca in Osvaldo Golijov’s Ainadamar, a role she created for the world premiere at Tanglewood under the baton of Robert Spano and has performed extensively and recorded with the ASO. She made her European debut last January at London’s Barbican Centre in a performance of Golijov’s Ainadamar Suite with the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Roberto Minczuk.  Opera Now has recognized her on its annual “Young Artists: Who’s Hot?” list for 2006.

In autumn of last year, Ms. O’Connor made her debut with the Cleveland Orchestra under the baton of Franz Welser-Möst, singing Stravinsky’s Requiem Canticles, and she returns this season to sing the role of Meg Page in Falstaff with performances in Cleveland and on a European concert tour.  Other future engagements include Hänsel und Gretel with Michael Christie and the Phoenix Symphony Orchestra, Bernstein’s Symphony No. 1 “Jeremiah” and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with Welser-Möst in Cleveland and on tour in Miami, L’Enfant et les sortilèges with Lorin Maazel and the New York Philharmonic, and Mendelssohn’s Midsummer Night’s Dream with Iván Fischer and the National Symphony Orchestra. Highlights of past seasons include performances with the Los Angeles Philharmonic of Berio’s Laborintus II and Dvořák’s Moravian Duets with conductors Esa-Pekka Salonen and Iván Fischer, respectively.

Ms. O’Connor has a bachelor of music degree from the University of Southern California and received her masters degree from UCLA while studying with Nina Hinson.  She is a winner of the Long Beach Mozart Festival, the Los Angeles National Association of Teachers of Singing Competition, the Palm Springs Opera Guild Competition, and a scholarship from the Opera Buffs, Inc.

Updated: 8/31/06