Melody Moore

Soprano Melody Moore is enjoying a thriving career on the world’s leading stages, prompting Opera News to label her “a revelation” and rave of her sold-out appearance at Carnegie Hall: “As I left the auditorium, I could only think: more of Moore, please.” Last season, Ms. Moore joined the Baltimore Symphony for Zemlinsky’s Lyric Symphony, the Los Angeles Master Chorale for Verdi’s Requiem, and headed back into the studio for two projects: a new recording with San Francisco Classical Recording Company, singing the title role in Norma; and a new recording of Gordon Getty’s opera Goodbye Mr. Chips. This season, she’ll join New Orleans Opera to sing the title role in Tosca, return to the Baltimore Symphony to reprise the role of Amneris in Aida, and join Odyssey Opera to sing the role of Helen Douglass in Ulysses Kay’s Frederick Douglass. Ms. Moore recently enjoyed a triumphant return to Los Angeles Opera, repeating her tremendous success in the role of Amneris in Aida opposite Latonia Moore in the title role and tenor Russell Thomas as Radamès. Concert highlights have included Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with the Minnesota Orchestra under the baton of Juraj Valčuha and the Mother in Hänsel und Gretel with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, with Sir Donald Runnicles at the helm. We also saw the release of Moore’s interpretation of the title role in Madama Butterfly (available on Pentatone) and the recording of a critically acclaimed concert of Tosca, captured live in Berlin, Germany. Ms. Moore has continued to remain active in the recording studio, marking the 100th anniversary of the birth of legendary soprano Renata Tebaldi with the newly released Remembering Tebaldi, an album featuring selections from the Italian repertoire for which she was most famous. She also sang Kathie/Linford in the world premiere recording of Gordon Getty’s opera Goodbye, Mr. Chips. Moore made a much-anticipated return to San Francisco Opera as Mère Marie in the Olivier Py production of Dialogues des Carmélites, and she made her role début as Alice Ford in Falstaff in concert with the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra in Katowice, Poland. Concert highlights included her début with the Houston Symphony Orchestra in Mahler’s Das klagende Lied under the baton of Music Director Andrés Orozco-Estrada; a début with the Dresdner Philharmonie in the roles of Giorgetta in Il tabarro and Santuzza in Cavalleria rusticana, both of which were recorded for commercial release by Pentatone; Senta with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, under the baton of Music Director Edo de Waart; a début with the Grant Park Music Festival for Delius’ A Mass of Life; and the title role in Salome in Daegu, South Korea. A Master of Music graduate of the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, Melody Moore is a former Adler Fellow of San Francisco Opera and an alumnus of the prestigious Merola program.