Kelsey Lauritano

Japanese-American mezzo Kelsey Lauritano is currently an ensemble member of Oper Frankfurt with roles including DORABELLA Così fan tutte, CHERUBINO Le Nozze di Figaro, HANNAH The Passenger, SUZUKI Madama Butterfly, PAOLO Francesca da Rimini, LICHAS Hercules, THE FOX The Cunning Little Vixen, and MUSICO Manon Lescaut. Future and most recent guest appearances include Scipione (title role) The English Concert, St Martin in the Fields, COMRADE CHIN/SHU FUNG M.Butterfly La Monnaie, ERIKA Vanessa Heartbeat Opera, New York, MUSICO Oper Zürich and Bayerische Staatsoper München, ORLOWSKY Die Fledermaus Opera Theatre of Saint Louis and New Year’s gala concerts Staatstheater Meiningen.

Previously at Oper Frankfurt Kelsey has sung WIRTSTOCHTER Königskinder, MRS. NOLAN The Medium, Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt, a staged Tchaikovsky Liederabend by Christof Loy, EMILIA Otello, THIRD WOOD NYMPH Rusalka, ENRICHETTA DI FRANCIA I Puritani, and EINE SPANIERIN Der Ferne Klang. Conductors and directors she has worked with include Sebastian Weigle Laurence Cummings, Marco Armiliato, Jonathan Stockhammer, Barrie Kosky, Damiano Michieletto, R.B. Schlather, Àlex Ollé and Hans Walter Richter.

In concert she sang with Tiroler Festspiele Erl, Bayerisches Rundfunkorchester, Nürnberger Symphoniker, Oregon Symphony, Boston Early Music Festival, New World Symphony, Music Academy of the West, New York Song Festival, and Virginia Arts Festival.

Kelsey studied at The Juilliard School, NY. She is the winner of Music Academy of the West’s Marilyn Horne Song Competition and has received prizes from the Metropolitan Opera National Council, the James Toland Vocal Arts Competition and the Gerda Lissner/Liederkrantz Song Competition. She won the Hal Leonard Musical Theater Competition and was named a 2012 Presidential Scholar in the Arts by Former U.S. President Barack Obama.