Kelley O'Connor

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This summer, Ms O'Connor will have her debut with the BBC Symphony at Opening Night of the Proms on July 16th singing Alto 2 in Mahler's Symphony no. 8 conducted by Jiří Bělohlávek, as well as with the Edinburgh Festival as the mezzo in El Nino, conducted by James Conlon, on August 13. Other highlights include a July 6th performance at the Hollywood Bowl celebrating 10 years of Grant Gershon as director of the Los Angeles Master Chorale, her London Symphony Orchestra debut singing Berio's Folk Songs with Daniel Harding conducting and a week with the Napa Festival del Sole performing a solo recital and the northern California premiere of Peter Lieberson's Neruda Songs.

 

recently in the press

"For Weill's offbeat song cycle, O'Connor could have channeled the streetwise spirit of Lotte Lenya, who originated the role of the twins who travel across the United States and fall prey to each of the legendary seven sins. But O'Connor made the two Annas a fascinating pair by summoning up a lot of theatricality for an unstaged performance. With each new city and sin, O'Connor's characters revealed another part of their personalities, pouty at her departure, then displaying a hope-laced world weariness in Memphis, a wide-eyed innocence in Los Angeles, and a dark desperation in Boston. The mezzo's supple voice made the transformations as fascinating to hear as to see."

-- Rob Hubbard, Pioneer Press