Melissa Osmond
Soprano Soloist
April 28, 2001 Biography
MELISSA OSMOND,
Soprano, began her operatic career in Chicago where she appeared with the Chicago Opera Theatre, the Dupage Opera and the Lyric Opera of Chicago. Her principal teachers were Vera Scammon, Ellen Faull and her coaches have included, Martin Katz, Placido Domingo, Eugene Bossart, Robert Larsen.Faculty positions have included Albion College, Spring Arbor College and currently she is the director of the opera program at Hillsdale College. Among her operatic roles are Mimi in La Boheme, Alice Ford in Merry Wives of Windsor, Rosalinda in Die Fledermaus, Anne Trulove in Stravinsky's Rakes Progress. and Puccini's greatest character of all, Tosca. She has appeared with the Des Moines Metro Opera, MidMichigan Opera, Jackson Summer Opera, Papagena Opera in Ann Arbor, Door County Peninsula Music Festival, the Jackson Symphony Orchestra, the Dearborn Symphony, the Traverse City Symphony and the Saginaw Symphony Orchestra.
In addition to operatic roles, Symphonic appearances have included the Gorecki Symphony #3, Mahler 2, Barber Knoxville Summer 1915 several of which have been televised on both PBS and network television. Recitals have included collaborations with pianist Grant Johannesen and Kimberly Schmidt with both the Chicago and Grand Rapids Ballet and Guilio Favario.
April 28, 2001 Biography
Melissa Osmond - Melissa began her operatic career in Chicago where she appeared with the Chicago Opera Theatre, the Dupage Opera and the Lyric Opera of Chicago. Among her operatic roles are Mimi in La Boheme, Alice Ford in The Merry Wives of Windsor, Rosalinda in Die Fledermaus, Anne Trulove in The Rake's Progress and Puccini's greatest character of all, Tosca. She has appeared with the Des Moines Metro Opera, MidMichigan Opera, Jackson Summer Opera, Papagena Opera in Ann Arbor, Door County Peninsula Music Festival, the Jackson Symphony Orchestra, the Dearborn Symphony, the Traverse City Symphony and the Saginaw Symphony Orchestra. Recitals have included collaborations with pianist Grant Johannesen and Kimberly Schmidt with the Chicago Ballet in Jacobs Pillow Massachusetts. Melissa's musical collaborations with this evening's conductor, Louis Magor, extend back thirty years.
February 14, 1998 Biography
Melissa began her operatic career in Chicago where she appeared with the Chicago Opera Theatre, the Dupage Opera and the Lyric Opera of Chicago. She began her musical theatre career while a junior Stephen Osmond. Throughout college at Barrington College in Rhode Island and Simpson College in Iowa she continued her involvement in Broadway shows; Kismet, Brigadoon and became involved in the world of Grand Opera.
Post graduate work included studies at Northwestern University, Chicago Lyric Opera and the University of Michigan. Her principal teachers were Vera Scammon, Ellen Faull and her coaches have included, Martin Katz, Placido Domingo, Eugene Bossart, Robert Larsen and Guilio Favario. Faculty positions have included Albion College, Spring Arbor College and currently she is the director of the opera program at Hillsdale College.
Among her operatic roles are Mimi in La Boheme, Alice Ford in The Merry Wives of Windsor, Rosalinda in Die Fledermaus, Anne Trulove in The Rake's Progress and Puccini's greatest character of all, Tosca. She has appeared with the Des Moines Metro Opera, MidMichigan Opera, Jackson Summer Opera, Papagena Opera in Ann Arbor, Door County Peninsula Music Festival, the Jackson Symphony Orchestra, the Dearborn Symphony, the Traverse City Symphony and the Saginaw Symphony Orchestra. In addition to operatic roles, Symphonic appearances have included the Gorecki Symphony #3, Mahler 2, Barber Knoxville Summer 1915 several of which have been televised on both PBS and network television. Recitals have included collaborations with pianist Grant Johannesen and Kimberly Schmidt with the Chicago Ballet in Jacobs Pillow Massachusetts.