Mary-Ellen Nesi

Mezzosoprano

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Mary-Ellen Nesi

Mezzosoprano

A leading singer worldwide, Greek mezzo-so- prano Mary-Ellen Nesi has appeared at major international venues, including Bayerische Staatsoper, Carnegie Hall, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Frankfurt Opera, Théâtre de Champs-Elysées, Avery Fisher Hall (NY), Strathmore Hall (Washington DC), Semperop- er (Dresden), Royal Opera of Versailles, Chun- gmu Art Hall (Seoul), Opéra National du Rhin, Theater an der Wien, Place des Arts (Mont- real), Concertgebouw, Opéra de Nice, Opera of Lausanne, Arriaga (Bilbao), Teatro de la Maes- tranza (Seville), Teatro Olimpico (Rome), Sao Carlos Opera (Lisbon), the Operas of Florence, Ferrara, Modena and Piacenza, the Wiesbaden Opera, Caio Melisso (Spoleto), the Baden Baden Festpielhaus. She has also appeared in renowned festivals around the world and she was founder and artistic director of the Opera Festival of Ancient Corinth (2003-2009).

Mary-Ellen’s main focus lies in the baroque, classical and belcanto repertoire. She has performed more than 35 title and principal roles in operas by Monteverdi, Handel, Vivaldi, A.Scarlatti, Pergolesi, Porpora, Gluck, Paisiel- lo, Mozart, Rossini, Bizet, Donizetti, Bellini, R.Strauss, Verdi, Humperdinck, Mascagni, Massenet and contemporary composers.

She has recorded Handel’s operas , , Tamerlano (ECHO KLASSIK 2008), , Alessando Severo, under and Gluck’s Il Trionfo di Clelia, under G.Sigismondi (MDG), A.Scarlatti’s Tolo- meo e (Archiv), Handel’s (Virgin) and a solo CD (DHM) under Alan Curtis, Vivaldi’s Il Farnace, under Diego Fasolis (Virgin), Christmas at San Marco under Peter Kopp (Berlin Classics). She per- forms Antiope in the DVD of Ercole su’l Ter-

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modonte, Polinesso in the DVD of , Mary-Ellen Nesi was born in Montreal, Cana- Mitrena in the DVD of Motezuma under Alan da, and raised in Greece. She studied singing Curtis and Farnace (title role) under F.M with Misa Ikeuchi and then Frangiskos Voutsi- Sardelli (Dynamic). Her recent recordings in- nos, Kostas Pascalis in Athens and Arrigo Pola clude Le Nozze di Figaro under Theodor Cur- in Modena. rentzis and The Baroque Divas, under George Petrou (both by Sony).

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