HEATHER GALLAGHER

MEZZO-SOPRANO
Heather Gallagher

Recent projects include Carmen (Mercedes; Carmen cover, Calixto Bieito, dir.), The Merry Widow (Sylviane/Dodo), Werther (Charlotte cover and Käthchen), Katya Kabanova (Feklusha) and The Love Potion (Isolt’s Mother) with Boston Lyric Opera; the title role in Carmen with Metrowest Opera, Song from the Uproar (Alto, Beth Morrison Projects) The Daughter of the Regiment (Marquise, Opera North), Trouble in Tahiti (Dinah, Metrowest Opera), Les lettres de Werther (Charlotte, Boston Opera Collaborative), the New England premiere of Mohammed Fairouz’s Sumeida’s Song (Asakir, Boston Opera Collaborative). Other credits include, Le nozze di Figaro (Cherubino, Vero Beach Opera), Dido and Aeneas (Dido, HEMS), Albert Herring (Nancy, BOC), Cosi fan tutte (Despina, Gusman Center for the Arts) and the much lauded productions of La Boheme, Don Giovanni, La Traviata, I Puritani, The Magic Flute, Die fliegende Hollander and Madama Butterfly with Boston Lyric Opera.

Ms. Gallagher is a recipient of numerous awards and honors. She is a Boston Lyric Opera Emerging Artist Alumna, and a recipient of BLO’s 2016 Stephen Shrestinian Award for Excellence in addition to an Encouragement Award from the Licia-Albanese Puccini Foundation (2011), First Place in the 2015 Peter Elvins Vocal Competition, First Place in Metrowest Opera’s 2014 Competition, and a Two Year Fellowship from the Atlantic Music Festival. For more information please visit www.HeatherAGallagher.com