Caitlin Felsman

A dynamic, passionate mezzo-soprano at home on the stage and in the recital hall

 
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Bio

Caitlin Felsman, mezzo-soprano, has been praised for her “velvety low register” and “bright, ringing top” [Boston Music Intelligencer]. She is a dynamic, passionate performer, equally at home on the opera stage and in intimate recital venues. Caitlin is the Co-Director of Opera on Tap Boston, whose mission is to bring classical music to non-traditional performance spaces. Caitlin is based in the Boston area and studies with soprano Barbara Quintiliani.

Opera

Caitlin made her professional opera debut in November 2011 with Austin Lyric Opera as Second Lady in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte. Her recent performances have included the title role in Rossini's La Cenerentola (NEMPAC), Stephano in Gounod's Roméo et Juliette (Maryland Lyric Opera), Cousin Hebe in Gilbert and Sullivan's H.M.S. Pinafore (Natchez Festival of Music), and Dorabella in Mozart's Così fan tutte (NEMPAC, Opera del West). Caitlin has been a young artist at the Natchez Festival of Music in Mississippi and at Sugar Creek Symphony and Song in Illinois.

Concert

Caitlin is a frequent soloist with ensembles in the Greater Boston Area such as the Harvard-Radcliffe Chorus, the Cambridge Community Chorus, and Tufts University Chorus. She has twice appeared as a soloist at the Monadnock Festival of Music in collaboration with the Harvard Summer Chorus and the Boston Modern Orchestra Project. Favorite performances have included Corigliano’s Fern Hill, Mozart’s Requiem, and Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle.  

Recital

Caitlin has a great enthusiasm for art song from around the world. In the spring of 2012, she returned to her childhood home to perform as a recitalist and featured soloist at the Harare International Festival of the Arts in Zimbabwe. Caitlin received the Espacio Abierto grant from Villa Victoria Center for the Arts, which supported the recital tour Canción/Canção: An Evening of Spanish and Portuguese Song, featuring music from Cuba and Brazil.

Repertoire

 

Opera

Current Repertoire

Bellini | I Capuleti e i Montecchi | Romeo

Bellini | Norma | Adalgisa

Donizetti | La Favorita | Leonora

Donizetti | Roberto Devereux | Sara

Gounod | Sapho | Sapho

Meyerbeer | Le Prophete | Fidés

Rossini | La Donna del Lago | Elena

Rossini | Linda di Chamounix | Pierotto

Rossini | Semiramide | Arsace

Verdi | Rigoletto | Maddalena

Roles Performed

Adamo | Little Women | Alma March

Britten | Albert Herring | Nancy

Catan | La Hija de Rappaccini | Isabela

Gilbert and Sullivan | H.M.S. Pinafore | Cousin Hebe

Gounod | Roméo et Juliette | Stephano

Mozart | Così fan tutte | Dorabella

Mozart | Die Zauberflöte | Zweiter Dame

Poulenc | Dialogues of the Carmelites | Mother Marie

Purcell | Dido and Aeneas | Dido

Rorem | Our Town | Mrs. Webb

Rossini | La Cenerentola | Angelina

 

Oratorio 

* denotes yet to be performed

Sacred

Bach | Ich habe genung*

Bach | Mass in B minor

Bach | St. Matthew Passion

Elgar | Dream of Gerontius*

Handel | Messiah

Haydn | Lord Nelson Mass

Mahler | Symphony No. 2*

Mozart | Coronation Mass

Mozart | Great Mass in C minor*

Mozart | Regina Coeli

Mozart | Requiem

Mozart | Vesperae solennes de confessore

Rossini | Petite Messe Solennelle

Verdi | Requiem*

Vitier | Misa Cubana

Vivaldi | Gloria in D

Secular 

Corigliano | Fern Hill

Foss | The Prairie

Jenkins | The Armed Man

 

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Upcoming Performances

 

Faculty Recital | Deerfield Academy

Caitlin and pianist Yu-Mei Wei will present the song cycle Canções do Sol Poente (Songs of the Setting Sun) by Portuguese Composter Antonio Fragoso Cuban and songs by contemporary Cuban composer Jose Maria Vitier. This free performance will also feature other Deerfield music faculty.

Friday, September 22 | 7 pm
Hess Center Concert Hall  

Opera on Tap Presents: Drunk Opera History, Handel’s Messiah

Caitlin joins the Opera on Tap Team for another round of Drunk Opera History with music historian, Mike Pfitzer. It’s Handel’s Messiah like you’ve never heard before – come join the Hallelujah Chorus with a beer in hand!

Saturday, December 16 | 12 pm
The Burren, 247 Elm St, Somerville

 
 
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