Mezzo-Soprano
Recipient of our Second Place
Robin Angly & Miles Smith Award
Mezzo-Soprano Courtney Miller is the 2013 winner of the National Federation of Music Clubs’ Bi-Annual Young Artist Competition in Women’s Voice and First Place winner of the American Prize in Art Song in Women’s Voice. A New England Regional Finalist in the Metropolitan Opera Auditions, Ms. Miller took second in the 2015 Lois Alba Aria Competition.
Ms. Miller made her debut with Odyssey Opera as Mrs. Ford in Sir John in Love in 2015 and will make her Madison Opera debut as Meg in Little Women in 2016. During the 2014-15 season at Virginia Opera, Ms. Miller sang Cousin Hebe in HMS Pinafore, Page in Salome, Flora in La Traviata, and covered the Beggar Woman in Sweeney Todd. During Virginia Opera’s 2013-14 season, Ms. Miller sang the roles of Meg Page in Falstaff, Second Lady in The Magic Flute, Mercédès in Carmen, and Dryade in Ariadne auf Naxos while covering the Composer. Ms. Miller was a Young Artist with Glimmerglass Festival in 2014 where she sang Suzuki in the Young Artist performance of Madame Butterfly. Additionally, she covered the Composer in Ariadne auf Naxos and Elizabeth Griffiths in An American Tragedy. In the spring of 2013, Ms. Miller sang the role of Sister Helen in the successful New England premier of Dead Man Walking. After a rewarding summer as a Studio Artist with Chautauqua Opera in 2011, Ms. Miller returned as an Apprentice Artist in 2012, singing the role of Alisa in Lucia di Lammermoor and Maddalena in a concert version of Rigoletto with the Chautauqua Symphony.
Ms. Miller is an avid recitalist and has been praised for “possessing a delicacy and diction very appealing, and the strength to bring it home” (The Chautauquan Daily). She will be performing Ravel’s Shéhérazade with the Brevard Music Center Orchestra this summer. Concert credits include the alto soloist in Hadyn’s Schöpfungsmesse with the Concord Chorale, the alto soloist in Bach’s Mass in C Minor with The Boston Conservatory, and guest soloist for Two Dowland Laments with Hemenway Strings.
While studying at The Boston Conservatory, she starred in a Ravel double-bill as the title role in L’enfant et les sortilèges and Concepción in L’heure Espagnole. Susan Miron of The Arts Fuse wrote, “The role of Concepción is a marvelous piece of work, seemingly made to be sung by Courtney Miller, who was hilarious fanning herself while keeping three men on her seductive string.” Additional career highlights include Romeo in I Capuleti e i Montecchi, the Witch in Hansel and Gretel, Nancy in Albert Herring, and the title role in Iolanthe. Ms. Miller was applauded for her interpretation of Iolanthe: “Simply stunning. Beautiful voice, tall, willowy frame, exceptional dramatic abilities, pretty looks – she had it all. At each of the two performances I attended, Miss Miller’s ‘He loves…’ gave me chills” (GASBAG Review by Daniel Florip). She has also sung with Boston Lyric Opera, Ohio Light Opera, Seagle Music Colony, and Juventas New Music Ensemble. A Wisconsin native, Ms. Miller holds degrees from the University of Michigan and the Boston Conservatory.
www.CourtneyAllyceMiller.com
Sunday, June 7th, 2015
Parto, parto, ma tu ben mio
from LA CLEMENZA DI TITO by Mozart
HD Video by Robert Land Productions
Photo by Gwen Juarez
Que fais-tu, blanche tourterelle?
from ROMEO ET JULIETTE by Gounod
HD Video by Robert Land Productions
Lois Alba & Courtney Miller
Wood Violet