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| Margaret Lattimore, mezzo-soprano. | |
b i o g r a p h y...........back to roster....up September 2009 Grammy nominated Mezzo-Soprano Margaret Lattimore has sung with the Metropolitan Opera, Florida Grand Opera, Central City Opera, San Diego Opera, Opera Festival of New Jersey, Austin Lyric Opera, and Netherlands Opera amongst others. After winning the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions at the tender age of 24, Miss Lattimore became a member of the Lindemann Metropolitan Opera Young Artist Development Program. In October of that same year, she made her Metropolitan Opera debut as Dorotea in Stiffelio with Placido Domingo. Other Metropolitan Opera roles include Meg Page in Falstaff and Jordan Baker in The Great Gatsby both under the baton of the James Levine. The florid music of Rossini has always been present in Ms. Lattimores career and she has sung the roles of Rosina in Il Barbiere di Siviglia and the title role in La Cenerentola in nearly 25 companies across North America. Richard Dyer of The Boston Globe has written of her work, "The undisputed star of the occasion was mezzo-soprano Margaret Lattimore, who has it all looks, intelligence, musicianship, personality, technique, and a voice of bewitching amber color. She sang the rondo finale from Rossinis La Cenerentola with high spirits and dazzling virtuoso aplomb." Other roles include, Octavian in Der Rosenkavalier, Der Componist in Ariadne auf Naxos, and Sister Helen Prejean in Dead Man Walking. Ms Lattimores Mozart repertoire includes Cherubino in Le Nozze di Figaro, Dorabella in Cosi fan Tutte, Zerlina in Don Giovanni and Tamiri in a production of Il Re Pastore with The Mostly Mozart Festival in New York. Ms. Lattimores New York recital debut under the auspices of the Marilyn Horne Foundation led to her engagement by Carnegie Hall and a Weill Recital Hall recital. In the spring of 2003, Ms. Lattimore appeared with The Fleet Celebrity Series in recital at Bostons Jordan Hall and was the mezzo soloist in the world premiere of John Harbisons Requiem with the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Symphony Hall and Carnegie Hall. Other recital engagements include appearances at Chicagos Ravinia Festival, the Covent Garden Festival in London, New Yorks Morgan Library, the 92nd Street Y, the Library of Congress and her native Long Island. Ms. Lattimore has appeared with the New World Symphony, Indianapolis Symphony, New York Philharmonic, Boston Symphony Orchestra, The Orchestra of St. Lukes, Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra New World Symphony, and the Hong Kong Philharmonic and has performed with conductors that include James Levine, Bernard Haitink, Kurt Masur, James Conlon, Andrew Davis, Michael Tilson Thomas, Sir David Wilcocks, Raymond Leppard and Nicholas McGeagan to name just a few. In addition to the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, Miss Lattimore has won the Eleanor McCollum Award from the Houston Grand Opera Studio, a Jacobson Study Grant from the Richard Tucker Foundation, the prestigious George London Award and most recently became a 2006 Grammy Nominee for the Koch International recording of John Harbisons Motetti di Montale. In recent seasons, Ms Lattimore has performed Erika in Samuel Barbers Vanessa for the San Diego Opera and Angelina in Rossinis La Cenerentola for the Dallas Opera, Calgary Opera, Arizona Opera and Opera Birmingham and made appearances with the Boulder Bach Festival, The San Diego Symphony and The Cathedral Choral Societyin Washington D.C. Performances of Ottone in Handels Agrippina with Boston Baroque, and Handels Messiah with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and Colorado Symphony Orchestra followed, as did her first performances of Rossinis Stabat Mater with the London Symphony Chorus, Verdis Requiem with the New Haven Symphony, Mahlers Lieder eines Fahrenden Gesellen with Mahlerfestin Boulder, Colorado and recitals at the Windham Chamber Music Festival and Songfestin Malibu, California. During 2008/09 she performed with the Louisiana Philharmonic and Huntsville Symphony, and portrayed Old Lady in Candide with Toledo Opera, a house she will return to next season for Falstaff and Lucretia. Ms. Lattimores 2007/2008 season included performances of Handels Messiah with the New York Philharmonic and the Pittsburgh Symphony, Juno in Semele with Opera Boston and Boston Baroque, Tamiri in Mozarts Il Re Pastore with Philharmonia Baroque with Nicholas McGegan conducting and debut performances of Mahlers Second Symphony with the Colorado Music Festival and Elijah with the Honolulu Symphony. Ms. Lattimore attended the Crane School of Music at the State University of New York at Potsdam where she studied with Patricia Misslin. She now resides with her family in Boulder, Colorado where she is an Assistant Professor of Voice at the University of Colorado College of Music.
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