performers
Mezzo-soprano Daniela Mack leads the vanguard of a new generation of opera singers, infusing her artistry with a mix of intensity, adventurousness, and effortless charisma. Ms. Mack has appeared in many of the world’s most important opera houses including the Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Santa Fe Opera, English National Opera, Teatro Real, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, and the Verbier Festival. Her many roles include the title role in Carmen, Romeo in I Capuletti et I Montecchi, Rosina in Il barbiere di Siviglia, Angelina in Cenerentola, Isabella in L’Italiana in Algeri, Orsini in Lucrezia Borgia, Bradamante in Alcina, Rosmira in Partenope, Idamante in Idomeneo, and Federico García Lorca in Ainadmar. She also created roles in the world premieres of Kevin Puts and Mark Campbell’s Elizabeth Cree (title role) at Opera Philadelphia, and in David T. Little and Royce Vavrek’s JFK (Jacqueline Kennedy) at Fort Worth Opera with subsequent performances at Opéra de Montréal. She most recently premiered the title role in Gabriela Lena Frank’s Último Sueño de Frida y Diego at the San Francisco Opera and Los Angeles Opera.
Also a distinguished concert singer, she has appeared with the New York Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra, Hong Kong Symphony Orchestra, Sydney Symphony, BBC Symphony Orchestra, and The English Concert. Born in Buenos Aires, Ms. Mack studied at Louisiana State University and was a finalist in the 2013 BBC Cardiff Singer of the World competition. She is also an alumna of the Adler Fellowship Program at San Francisco Opera.