Bio
Caitlin Felsman, mezzo-soprano, has been praised for her “velvety low register” and “bright, ringing top” [Boston Music Intelligencer]. She is a dynamic, passionate performer, equally at home on the opera stage and in intimate recital venues. Caitlin is the Co-Director of Opera on Tap Boston, whose mission is to bring classical music to non-traditional performance spaces. Caitlin is based in the Boston area and studies with soprano Barbara Quintiliani.
Opera
Caitlin made her professional opera debut in November 2011 with Austin Lyric Opera as Second Lady in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte. Her recent performances have included the title role in Rossini's La Cenerentola (NEMPAC), Stephano in Gounod's Roméo et Juliette (Maryland Lyric Opera), Cousin Hebe in Gilbert and Sullivan's H.M.S. Pinafore (Natchez Festival of Music), and Dorabella in Mozart's Così fan tutte (NEMPAC, Opera del West). Caitlin has been a young artist at the Natchez Festival of Music in Mississippi and at Sugar Creek Symphony and Song in Illinois.
Concert
Caitlin is a frequent soloist with ensembles in the Greater Boston Area such as the Harvard-Radcliffe Chorus, the Cambridge Community Chorus, and Tufts University Chorus. She has twice appeared as a soloist at the Monadnock Festival of Music in collaboration with the Harvard Summer Chorus and the Boston Modern Orchestra Project. Favorite performances have included Corigliano’s Fern Hill, Mozart’s Requiem, and Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle.
Recital
Caitlin has a great enthusiasm for art song from around the world. In the spring of 2012, she returned to her childhood home to perform as a recitalist and featured soloist at the Harare International Festival of the Arts in Zimbabwe. Caitlin received the Espacio Abierto grant from Villa Victoria Center for the Arts, which supported the recital tour Canción/Canção: An Evening of Spanish and Portuguese Song, featuring music from Cuba and Brazil.
Repertoire
Opera
Current Repertoire
Bellini | I Capuleti e i Montecchi | Romeo
Bellini | Norma | Adalgisa
Donizetti | La Favorita | Leonora
Donizetti | Roberto Devereux | Sara
Gounod | Sapho | Sapho
Meyerbeer | Le Prophete | Fidés
Rossini | La Donna del Lago | Elena
Rossini | Linda di Chamounix | Pierotto
Rossini | Semiramide | Arsace
Verdi | Rigoletto | Maddalena
Roles Performed
Adamo | Little Women | Alma March
Britten | Albert Herring | Nancy
Catan | La Hija de Rappaccini | Isabela
Gilbert and Sullivan | H.M.S. Pinafore | Cousin Hebe
Gounod | Roméo et Juliette | Stephano
Mozart | Così fan tutte | Dorabella
Mozart | Die Zauberflöte | Zweiter Dame
Poulenc | Dialogues of the Carmelites | Mother Marie
Purcell | Dido and Aeneas | Dido
Rorem | Our Town | Mrs. Webb
Rossini | La Cenerentola | Angelina
Oratorio
* denotes yet to be performed
Sacred
Bach | Ich habe genung*
Bach | Mass in B minor
Bach | St. Matthew Passion
Elgar | Dream of Gerontius*
Handel | Messiah
Haydn | Lord Nelson Mass
Mahler | Symphony No. 2*
Mozart | Coronation Mass
Mozart | Great Mass in C minor*
Mozart | Regina Coeli
Mozart | Requiem
Mozart | Vesperae solennes de confessore
Rossini | Petite Messe Solennelle
Verdi | Requiem*
Vitier | Misa Cubana
Vivaldi | Gloria in D
Secular
Corigliano | Fern Hill
Foss | The Prairie
Jenkins | The Armed Man
Upcoming Performances
Faculty Recital | Deerfield Academy
Caitlin and pianist Yu-Mei Wei will present the song cycle Canções do Sol Poente (Songs of the Setting Sun) by Portuguese Composter Antonio Fragoso Cuban and songs by contemporary Cuban composer Jose Maria Vitier. This free performance will also feature other Deerfield music faculty.
Friday, September 22 | 7 pm
Hess Center Concert Hall
Opera on Tap Presents: Drunk Opera History, Handel’s Messiah
Caitlin joins the Opera on Tap Team for another round of Drunk Opera History with music historian, Mike Pfitzer. It’s Handel’s Messiah like you’ve never heard before – come join the Hallelujah Chorus with a beer in hand!