BIO

Nancy Caudill has appeared at leading domestic and international venues as a featured soloist in works by Vaughan Williams, Vivaldi, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Barber, Dvorak, Handel, Bernstein, Strauss, and others. As mezzo-soprano soloist, she performed in Venice and Florence, Italy; St. Petersburg, Russia; the Rudolfinum in Prague, Czech Republic; Carnegie Hall in New York City; and with various musical organizations and orchestras throughout the United States. She has sung with the Anchorage Opera, the Cincinnati Opera Association, the Cincinnati Symphony, and with renowned conductors, including Leonard Bernstein, Robert Shaw, Thomas Schippers, and Pablo Zinger.

Nancy has received critical praise for her roles as “The Mother” in Amahl and the Night Visitors; “Suzuki” in Madama Butterfly; “Cherubino” in Le Nozze di Figaro; “Cenerentola” in La Cenerentola; “Hansel” in Hansel and Gretel, and “Berta” in Il Barbiere di Siviglia. Her concert appearances include Dvorak’s Stabat Mater; Mozart’s C-Minor Mass; Vaughan William’s Serenade to Music; Vivaldi’s Gloria; Handel’s Messiah, Bach’s B-Minor Mass and St. Matthew Passion, and Mendelssohn’s Elijah. She is also an acknowledged expert in performing Art Song recitals.

Engagements for the 2008 – 2009 season in Alaska included singing “Antigua” in Pablo Sorobazal’s La Tabanera del Puerto, “Berta” in Il Barbiere di Siviglia, and portraying “Julia Child” in Lee Hoiby’s Bon Appétit. In the 2009-2010 season, Nancy looks forward to singing “La Zia Principessa” in Suor Angelica with Anchorage Opera, to presenting a recital at The University of Alaska in Fairbanks, and to honoring our men and women in uniform with a recital of classics and war songs entitled “We Salute You”.

Nancy is a graduate of the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, where she earned a degree in Opera, Oratorio, and Art Song Performance. She completed additional studies at the Curtis and Cleveland Institutes of Music. She is a winner of the District Metropolitan Opera Council Auditions and a Regional finalist.

Nancy currently resides and maintains a voice studio in Anchorage, Alaska.