Maureen backstage as Norina in "Don Pasquale"
Upcoming Engagements:
Soloist
Symphony of the Americas
Holiday Pops Concert
December 8 at 2:00 p.m.; 2024
December 9 at 7:45 p.m.; 2024
December 10 at 7:45 p.m.; 2024
https://sota.org
Conductor: Luke Frazier
Gretel, Hänsel und Gretel
Utah Opera
January 18 at 7:30 p.m.; 2025
January 20 at 7:00 p.m.; 2025
January 22 at 7:00 p.m.; 2025
January 24 at 7:30 p.m.; 2025
January 26 at 2:00 p.m.; 2025
https://www.utahopera.org
Conductor: Stephanie Rhodes Russell
Director: Kyle Lang
Suzanna (cover), Le nozze di Figaro
The Metropolitan Opera
March-May 2025
https://www.metopera.org
Conductor: Joana Mallwitz
Director: Richard Eyre
Engagements 2023-2024:
Soloist
The American Pops Orchestra
Atlantic Council's Distinguished Leadership Awards in NYC
Honoree: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky
Conductor: Luke Frazier
September 20, 2023
Hirt, Tannhäuser
The Metropolitan Opera
November 30 at 7:00 p.m.; 2023
December 3 at 2:00 p.m.; 2023
December 6 at 7:00 p.m.; 2023
December 9 at 7:00 p.m.; 2023
December 12 at 7:00 p.m.; 2023
December 16 at 7:00 p.m.; 2023
December 19 at 7:00 p.m.; 2023
December 23 at 1:00 p.m.; 2023
https://www.metopera.org
Conductor: Donald Runnicles
Director: Otto Schenk
Lisette (cover), La Rondine
The Metropolitan Opera
March-April 2024
https://www.metopera.org
Conductor: Speranza Scappucci
Director: Nicolas Joël
Laura Brown (cover), The Hours
The Metropolitan Opera
https://www.metopera.org
Conductor: Kensho Watanabe
Director: Phelim McDermott
Engagements 2022-2023:
Pamina (cover), Die Zauberflöte
The Metropolitan Opera
May-June 2023
https://www.metopera.org
Conductor: Nathalie Stutzmann
Director: Simon McBurney
Adina (cover), L'Elisir d'Amore
The Metropolitan Opera
April 2023
https://www.metopera.org
Conductor: Michele Gamba
Director: Bartlett Sher
Laila, A Thousand Splendid Suns
(WORLD PREMIERE)
Seattle Opera
February 25 at 7:30 p.m.; 2023
February 26 at 2:00 p.m.; 2023
March 3 at 7:30 p.m.; 2023
March 5 at 2:00 p.m.; 2023
March 8 at 7:30 p.m.; 2023
March 11 at 7:30 p.m.: 2023
https://www.seattleopera.org
Conductor: Viswa Subbaramann
Director: Roya Sadat
Composer: Sheila Silver
Librettist: Stephen Kitsakos
Adina (cover), L'Elisir d'Amore
The Metropolitan Opera
January 2023
https://www.metopera.org
Conductor: Michele Gamba
Director: Bartlett Sher
2nd Niece, Peter Grimes
The Metropolitan Opera
October 16 at 3:00 p.m.; 2022
October 22 at 8:00 p.m.; 2022
October 26 at 7:30 p.m.; 2022
October 29 at 1:00 p.m.; 2022
November 2 at 7:30 p.m.; 2022
November 5 at 8:00 p.m.; 2022
November 9 at 7:30 p.m.; 2022
November 12 at 1:00 p.m.; 2022
https://www.metopera.org
Conductor: Nicholas Carter
Director: John Doyle
Engagements 2021-2022:
Soprano Soloist (cover), MAHLER Symphony No. 2
The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
Damrosch Park on the Lincoln Center Campus
September 4 & 5; 2021
https://www.metopera.org
Conductor: Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Pamina (cover), The Magic Flute
The Metropolitan Opera
December 2021-January 2022
https://www.metopera.org
Conductor: Dame Jane Glover
Director: Julie Taymor
Susanna (cover), Le nozze di Figaro
The Metropolitan Opera
January 2022
https://www.metopera.org
Conductor: Daniele Rustioni
Director: Sir Richard Eyre
Echo, Ariadne auf Naxos
The Metropolitan Opera
March 1 at 7:30 p.m.; 2022
March 5 at 1:00 p.m.; 2022
March 8 at 8:00 p.m.; 2022
March 12 at 1:00 p.m.; 2022
March 17 at 7:00 p.m.; 2022
https://www.metopera.org
Conductor: Marek Janowski
Director: Elijah Moshinsky
Susanna (cover), Le nozze di Figaro
The Metropolitan Opera
April 2022
https://www.metopera.org
Conductor: James Gaffigan
Director: Sir Richard Eyre
Soloist
The American Pops Orchestra
Atlantic Council's Distinguished Leadership Awards in Washington D.C.
Honoree: Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi
Conductor: Luke Frazier
May 11, 2022
Anne Trulove (cover), The Rake's Progress
The Metropolitan Opera
May-June 2022
https://www.metopera.org
Conductor: Susanna Mälkki
Director: Jonathan Miller
Soprano Soloist, BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125, Choral
Dallas Symphony Orchestra
Bravo! Vail Festival & Colorado Symphony Orchestra Choruses
July 2, 2022
https://www.bravovail.org
Conductor: Fabio Luisi
Engagements 2020-2021
Gretel, Hänsel und Gretel
Bayerisches Staatsoper
CANCELLED
December 11 at 6:00 p.m.; 2020
December 13 at 6:00 p.m.; 2020
December 14 at 7:00 p.m.; 2020
https://www.staatsoper.de/en/index.html
Conductor: Friedrich Haider
Director: Richard Jones
First Wood Nymph, Rusalka
The Metropolitan Opera
CANCELLED
March 16, 20, 24, 27, 30
April 3, 6; 2021
https://www.metopera.org
Conductor: Jakub Hrůša
Director: Mary Zimmerman
Soloist, PBS Special
One Voice: The Songs We Share- Sacred
The American Pops Orchestra
May 28, 2021
https://www.pbs.org/video/episode-2-preview-sacred-gowtdd/
Conductor: Luke Frazier
Engagements 2019-2020
Susanna (cover), Le nozze di Figaro
The Metropolitan Opera
October-December 2019
https://www.metopera.org
Conductor: Antonello Manacorda
Director: Sir Richard Eyre
Music by the Glass presents: "Chiaro Scuro- a journey through darkness & light"
November 13, 2019
Louis K. Meisel Gallery
141 Prince Street NYC
works by Dowland & Schubert
https://www.musicbytheglass.com
Barbarina, Le nozze di Figaro
The Metropolitan Opera
February 5, 8, 11, 14, 19, 22(m); 2020
https://www.metopera.org/season/2019-20-season/le-nozze-di-figaro/
Conductor: Cornelius Meister
Director: Sir Richard Eyre
Susanna (cover), Le nozze di Figaro
The Metropolitan Opera
February 2020
https://www.metopera.org
Conductor: Cornelius Meister
Director: Sir Richard Eyre
Sophie (cover), Werther
The Metropolitan Opera
CANCELLED
March-April 2020
https://www.metopera.org
Conductor: Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Director: Sir Richard Eyre
NOUVEAU Productions presents: "Power of Giving"
Smithsonian National Museum of American History
CANCELLED
Conductor: Luke Frazier
https://www.nouveauproductions.co
Festival Chamber Music presents: "Music by Holocaust Composers"
Museum of Jewish Heritage at Battery Park: Edmond J. Safra Hall
CANCELLED
April 22, 2020
Lori Laitman's song cycle: I Never Saw Another Butterfly
(Gary Louis- Saxophone)
Auschwitz. Not long ago. Not far away. at the Museum of Jewish Heritage
http://www.festivalchamber.org/
OmniARTS Foundation presents: "Lean on Me- American Song"
A virtual concert of American Song hosted by Tom Cipullo & Lori Laitman
May 23, 2020 at 4:00 p.m. EST
https://theomniartsfoundation.com
Engagements 2018-2019
Rose Maurrant, Street Scene
Virginia Opera
Sept. 28, 30, & Oct 2; 2018
(Harrison Opera House, Norfolk)
Oct 6 & 7; 2018
(GMU Center for the Arts, Fairfax)
Oct. 12 & 14; 2018
(Dominion Energy Center, Richmand)
https://vaopera.org/
Conductor: Adam Turner
Director: Dorothy Danner
Recital
Lori Laitman's Songs
Benefit Recital for Type I Diabetes
October 10, 2018
Lori Laitman at the piano & Saxophonist, Gary Louie
Piano Craft: Gaithersburg, MD
Suor Genovieffa, Suor Angelica
The Metropolitan Opera
Nov. 23, 26, 30; 2018
Dec. 5, 8(m), 12, 15; 2018
http://www.metopera.org/
Conductor: Bertrand de Billy
Director: Jack O'Brien
Recital
The Music Series at St. John's Worthington
Edward Bak (collaborative accompanist)
Works by Purcell, Mozart, Schubert, Liszt, Grieg, Laitman, Gershwin
February 10, 2019; 3:00pm
http://www.stjohnsworthington.org/music-series/
Despina, Così fan tutte
Lyric Opera of Kansas City
March 16, 20, 22 24(m); 2019
www.kcopera.org/
Conductor: Jane Glover
Director: James Alexander
Susanna, Le nozze di Figaro
Opera Colorado
May 4, 7, 10, 12; 2019
www.operacolorado.org/
Conductor: Ari Pelto
Director: Matthew Ozawa
Pamina, Die Zauberflöte
Mostly Mozart Festival
Lincoln Center- Koch Theatre
July 17 & 19; 2019
http://www.lincolncenter.org/mostly-mozart-festival/calendar
Conductor: Louis Langrée
Director: "1927" (Suzanne Andrade & Paul Barritt) and Barrie Kosky
Engagements 2017-2018
Mabel, The Pirates of Penzance
San Diego Opera
October 14, 17, 20, & 22 (m); 2017
http://www.sdopera.org
Conductor: Evan Rogister
Director: Seán Curran
Gretel, Hänsel and Gretel
The Metropolitan Opera
December 28, 2017
http://www.metopera.org/
Conductor: Donald Runnicles
Director: Richard Jones
Juliette (cover), Roméo et Juliette
The Metropolitan Opera
April-May 2018
http://www.metopera.org/
Conductor: Plácido Domingo
Director: Bartlett Sher
Engagements 2016-2017
Pamina, Die Zauberflöte
Gran Teatre del Liceu
September 12, 15, & 17; 2016
http://www.liceubarcelona.cat/en.html
Conductor: Antonello Manacorda
Director: "1927" (Suzanne Andrade & Paul Barritt) and Barrie Kosky
Susanna, Le nozze di Figaro
Lyric Opera of Kansas City
November 5, 9, 11, & 13; 2016
https://www.kcopera.org
Conductor: Ryan McAdams
Director: Stephen Lawless
Pamina, Die Zauberflöte
Komische Oper Berlin
November 18 & 25;
December 14, 17, & 20
https://english.komische-oper-berlin.de/
Conductor: Henrik Nánási
Director: "1927" (Suzanne Andrade & Paul Barritt) and Barrie Kosky
Nannetta, Falstaff
San Diego Opera
February 18, 21, 24, & 26(m); 2017
http://www.sdopera.org
Conductor: Daniele Callegari
Director: Olivier Tambosi
Sophie (cover), Der Rosenkavalier
The Metropolitan Opera
April-May 2017
http://www.metopera.org/
Pamina, Die Zauberflöte
The Bolshoi Theatre
New Stage
May 2017
Conductor: Gabriel Feltz
Director: "1927" (Suzanne Andrade & Paul Barritt) and Barrie Kosky
http://www.bolshoi.ru/
https://www.chekhovfest.ru/
Zémire, Zémire et Azor
Opera Saratoga
July 2 at 7:30 pm
July 8 at 2:00 pm
July 14 at 2:00 pm
Conductor: Lidiya Yankovskaya
Director: James Ortiz
http://www.operasaratoga.org/
Recording project with Lori Laitman, composer
July 18-21; 2017
Engagements 2015-2016
Léïla, Les pêcheurs de perles
Seattle Opera
October 17, 21, 24, 28, and 31; 2015
http://www.seattleopera.org
Conductor: Emmanuel Joel-Hornak
Director: Andrew Sinclair
Soprano Soloist, Händel's Messias (arranged by Mozart, in German)
The Danish National Symphony Orchestra
December 3 & 4; 2015
DR Koncerthuset in Copenhagen
http://www.dr.dk/Koncerthuset/english/the-danish-national-symphony-orchestra.htm
Conductor: Fabio Luisi
Soprano Soloist, MAHLER Symphony No. 2
Orchestra and Choir of Teatro Carlo Felice; Génova
December 19; 2015
http://www.carlofelicegenova.it/index.php/sinfonica_ita_CPT12.html
Conductor: Fabio Luisi
Léïla (cover), Les pêcheurs de perles
The Metropolitan Opera
January-February 2016
Master Coach/Lecturer
Soloist, Celebrity Recital
Vann Vocal Institute
February 11-13; 2016
http://www.montgomerysymphony.org/vann-vocal
Mabel, The Pirates of Penzance
The Atlanta Opera
March 5, 8, 11, & 13(m); 2016
http://www.atlantaopera.org/index.aspx
Conductor: David Agler
Director: Seán Curran
Soloist, The Composer Speaks Austrian émigrés:
Schönberg, Von Trapp and the Power of Music
DiMenna Space for Classical Music/ March 30 (8:00 pm)
Schönberg's Brettl-Lieder & other works
Judith Clurman (conductor) & Naomi Lewin (moderator)
Pamina, The Magic Flute
Portland Opera
May 6, 8m, 12, 14; 2016
http://www.portlandopera.org/
Conductor: George Manahan
Director: Christopher Mattaliano
English translation by Andrew Porter
Soprano Soloist, Beethoven's Symphony No. 9
& Barber's Prayers of Kierkegaard
Colorado Springs Philharmonic
May 21 (7:30 pm) & May 22 (2:30 pm); 2016
http://csphilharmonic.org/
Conductor: Josep Caballé-Domenech
Pamina, Die Zauberflöte
Gran Teatre del Liceu
July 18, 20, 22, 24, 26, 28; 2016
http://www.liceubarcelona.cat/en.html
Conductor: Henrik Nánási
Director: "1927" (Suzanne Andrade & Paul Barritt) and Barrie Kosky
Engagements 2014-2015
Pamina, Die Zauberflöte
Komische Oper Berlin
September 12, 18, 27
October 2, 4; 2014
http://www.komische-oper-berlin.de/home/
Conductor: Henrik Nánási
Director: "1927" (Suzanne Andrade & Paul Barritt) and Barrie Kosky
Susanna (cover), Le nozze di Figaro
The Metropolitan Opera
November-December 2014
http://www.metoperafamily.org/metopera/index.aspx
Pamina, The Magic Flute
Opera Colorado
May 2, 5, 8, 10; 2015
http://www.operacolorado.org/
Conductor: Joseph Mechavich
Director: Daniel Witzke
Anne Trulove, The Rake's Progress
Portland Opera
June 11, 12, 14m; 2015
http://www.portlandopera.org/
Conductor: Ari Pelto
Director: Roy Rallo
Soloist, The Sound of Music 50th Anniversary Festival: Rodgers and Hammerstein Concert
Mozarteum- Salzburg, Austria
June 26; 2015
http://www.som50fest.org
Conductor: Judith Clurman
Voice Faculty
Oyster Bay Music Festival
July 5-7; 2015
https://oysterbaymusicfestival.org/faculty/
Pamina, Die Zauberflöte
Edinburgh International Festival
August 27, 29; 2015
http://www.eif.co.uk/opera#.VNGUXcbwaEw
Komische Oper Berlin production
Conductor: Kristiina Poska
Director: "1927" (Suzanne Andrade & Paul Barritt) and Barrie Kosky
Engagements 2013-2014
Soloist, MAHLER Symphony No. 4
The Cleveland Orchestra
September 19 at 7:30 p.m.
September 21 at 8 p.m.
http://www.clevelandorchestra.com/index.aspx
Conductor: Fabio Luisi
Guest Master Class Instructor
The Ohio State University
September 22, 2013
http://music.osu.edu
Sophie (cover), Der Rosenkavalier
The Metropolitan Opera
November-December
http://www.metoperafamily.org/metopera/index.aspx
Gretel, Hänsel und Gretel
Bayerisches Staatsoper
December 21 at 3:00 p.m.
December 29 at 2:00 p.m.
http://www.bayerische.staatsoper.de/866--~Staatsoper~bso_aktuell~aktuelles.html
Conductor: Tomáš Hanus
Production: Richard Jones/Benjamin Davis
Pamina, The Magic Flute
Washington National Opera
May 3, 8, 11 (matinee), 15, 18 (matinee)
http://www.kennedy-center.org/wno/
Conductor: Philippe Auguin
Director: Harry Silverstein
Lighting Designer: Paul Pyant
Set & Costume Designer: Jun Kaneko
Elisa, Il re pastore
(Concert)
Komische Oper Berlin
May 25, 2014
http://www.komische-oper-berlin.de/home/
Conductor: Christian Curnyn
Nannetta, Falstaff
Saito Kinen Festival: (Matsumoto, Japan)
August 20, 22, 24, 26
http://www.saito-kinen.com/e/
Conductor: Fabio Luisi
Director: David Kneuss
Engagements 2012-2013
Lisa, La Sonnambula (in concert)
Washington Concert Opera
September 16, 2012 (2:00 pm)
http://www.concertopera.org/
Conductor: Antony Walker
Pamina, Die Zauberflöte
Komische Oper Berlin
November 25 , 29
December 3, 4, 8, 26, 31; 2012
February 7
March 3
May 4, 9, 11, 18
July 4; 2013
http://www.komische-oper-berlin.de/home/
Conductor: Henrik Nánási & Kristiina Poska
Director (new production): Barrie Kosky/Suzanne Andrade
Musetta, La Bohème
Komische Oper Berlin
December 3 , 15; 2012
http://www.komische-oper-berlin.de/home/
Conductor: Kristiina Poska
Director: Andreas Homoki
Sophie, Der Rosenkavalier
Komische Oper Berlin
January 12 , 27
February 8, 17; 2013
http://www.komische-oper-berlin.de/home/
Conductor: Henrik Nánási
Director: Andreas Homoki
Gretel, Hänsel und Gretel
Komische Oper Berlin
March 24 , 27, 31
April 4, 10 (matinee), 11 (matinee), 14
June 28; 2013
http://www.komische-oper-berlin.de/home/
Conductor: Kristiina Poska
Director (new production): Reinhard von der Thannen
Soprano Soloist, Mozart’s Requiem
Sinfoniekonzert mit Henrik Nánási
May 3, 2013
http://www.komische-oper-berlin.de/home/
Susanna, Le nozze di Figaro
Komische Oper Berlin
May 24, 26
June 2, 16; 2013
http://www.komische-oper-berlin.de/home/
Conductor: Henrik Nánási
Director: Barrie Kosky
Engagements 2011-2012
Blanche de la Force, Dialogues des Carmélites
Komische Oper Berlin
October-November 2011
Conductor: Stefan Blunier
Director (new production): Calixto Bieito
Gretel (cover), Hansel and Gretel
The Metropolitan Opera
December 2011- January 2012
Soprano Soloist, Das Buch mit Sieben Siegeln
Orchestra e Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
February 2012
Conductor: Leopold Hager
Musetta, La Bohème
Komische Oper Berlin
February-March 2012
Conductor: Lucasz Borowicz
Director: Andreas Homoki
Sophie, Der Rosenkavalier
Komische Oper Berlin
March-April 2012
Conductor: Patrick Lange
Director: Andreas Homoki
Laurey, Oklahoma!
Central City Opera
June-August 2012
Conductor: Christopher Zemliauskas
Director: Ken Cazan
Engagements 2010-2011
Norina, Don Pasquale
Komische Oper Berlin
September-December 2010
Gretel, Hansel and Gretel
Portland Opera
November 2010
Susanna, Le nozze di Figaro
Komische Oper Berlin
January-March 2011
Director: Barrie Kosky
Marzelline, Fidelio
Komische Oper Berlin
February 2011
Director (new production): Benedikt von Peter
Musetta, La Bohème
Komische Oper Berlin
May-July 2011
Conductor: Patrick Lange
Director: Andreas Homoki
Blanche de la Force, Dialogues des Carmélites
Komische Oper Berlin
June-July 2011
Conductor: Stefan Blunier
Director (new production): Calixto Bieito
Engagements 2009-2010
Sandmännchen und Taumännchen, Hänsel und Gretel
Seiji Ozawa Ongaku-juko Project
Yokohama, Tokyo, Biwako, Nagoya, and Hamamatsu
July-August 2009
Gretel (cover), Hansel and Gretel
The Metropolitan Opera
December 2009-January 2010
Norina, Don Pasquale
Komische Oper Berlin
February-April 2010
Marzelline, Fidelio
Komische Oper Berlin
(new production)
April-July 2010
Eurydice, Orphée et Eurydice
Opera Company of Philadelphia
June 2010
Engagements 2008-2009
Susanna, Le nozze di Figaro
Opera Cleveland
Zerlina, Don Giovanni
New Orleans Opera
Soprano Soloist,
Mozart's Requiem
&
Debussy's La Damoiselle Élue
Utah Symphony
Gretel, Hänsel and Gretel
Tulsa Opera
Musetta, La Bohéme
Opera Omaha
Elisa, Il re pastore
Opera Theatre of Saint Louis
Engagements 2007-2008
Caroline Gaines, Margaret Garner
New York City Opera
Gretel, Hänsel und Gretel
Opera Company of Philadelphia
Lightfoot McLendon, Cold Sassy Tree
Atlanta Opera
Pamina, Die Zauberflöte
Lyric Opera of Kansas City
Norina, Don Pasquale
Anchorage Opera
Soprano Soloist, Carmina Burana
Utah Symphony
Lilla, Una cosa rara
Opera Theatre of Saint Louis
Soprano Soloist, An Afternoon in Vienna
Saint Louis Symphony
Soprano Soloist, Night in Vienna
Saint Louis Symphony at
The Innsbrook Institute- Music Festival
Engagements 2006-2007
Flora, Turn of the Screw
Seattle Opera Young Artists Program
April 2006
Ismene, Telemann's Orpheus
Wolf Trap Opera Company
July 2006
Soprano Soloist, Carmina Burana
National Symphony Orchestra
July 2006
Susanna, Le nozze di Figaro
Wolf Trap Opera Company
August 2006
Despina, Così fan tutte
New York City Opera
October-November 2006
Recital
Music of Remembrance
Seattle, Washington
May 2007
Soprano Soloist, Carmina Burana
Seattle Symphony
July 2007
Papagena, Die Zauberflöte
Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl
July 2007