Nancy Maultsby

American mezzo-soprano Nancy Maultsby is in demand by opera companies and orchestras throughout the world. Her unique vocal timbre and insightful musicianship allow her to pursue a repertoire extending from the operas of Monteverdi and Handel to recent works by John Adams. She regularly performs the major heroines of nineteenth-century French, Italian and German opera and the great symphonic works. Ms. Maultsby opens this season with a return to Washington National Opera as Mistress Quickly in Falstaff (Sebastian Lang-Lessing); reprises her roles in Tan Dun’s Tea: A Mirror of the Soul at Opera Company of Philadelphia under the baton of the composer; and sings Verdi’s Requiem with New Orleans Opera and the RPO. The season also sees a pair of notable debuts: with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra as Baba the Turk in The Rake’s Progress (Edo de Waart), and with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and the Utah Symphony in Mahler’s Symphony No. 2. Maultsby’s operatic career has included a wide range of roles in some of the world’s most prestigious houses including Lyric Opera of Chicago, Seattle Opera, Stuttgart Opera; Netherlands Opera; Minnesota Opera, Michigan Opera Theater, Palm Beach Opera, and at the National Theater Athens, among many others.

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