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mezzo-soprano BRIDGET bridgetcappel.com

American mezzo-soprano, Bridget Cappel, is a Hattie Mae Lesley Apprentice Artist at Fort Worth Opera. Originally from Detroit, Michigan, Bridget has been proud to call Texas home for the past year. This Spring with TCU Opera, Bridget will perform the title role in La Tragedie de Carmen, as well as Meg Page in Verdi’s Falstaff. In the 2017/2018 season with TCU opera, Bridget performed the roles of Hermia (A Midsummer Night’s Dream) and Toledo in the world premier of The Falling and the Rising in collaboration with the United States Army Field Band Soldiers’ Chorus by award winning music theater composer, Zach Redler. She also covered Maria (Maria de Buenos Aires) with Fort Worth Opera and sang several excerpts from new works in Fort Worth Opera’s new music festival, Frontiers. This past summer, Bridget joined Charlottesville Opera in Charlottesville, Virginia as a Apprentice Artist. Bridget’s other recent roles include Eliza Doolittle (My Fair Lady), Alfred in the piano/vocal premier of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead by Herschel Garfein, and Hattie and Gladys in the world premier of Even Mack’s Roscoe (2016) at Seagle Music Colony. Mrs. Cappel graduated with her Master’s in Music from Boston University where she performed the roles of Cherubino (Le nozze di Figaro), Mrs. Bass (Emmeline), Mezzo-soprano (Hydrogen Jukebox), and Dorabella (Cosí fan tutte). Bridget received first place in the Kalamazoo Bach Festival Competition in 2015 and was a semi-finalist in the AIMS Meistersinger Competition in Graz, Austria. She received bachelors degrees in Voice Performance and Film, Video, and Media Studies from Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Michigan.