Recent performances include the role of Gretel in Hansel and Gretel with Arizona Opera; Adina in Donizetti’s, L’Elisir d’amore with Intermountain Opera in Montana; Auretta in Mozart’s, L’Oca del Cairo with the Brazilian Opera Society in Sao Paulo; Baby Doe in The Ballad of Baby Doe with North Bay Opera; Musetta in La Boheme with Nevada Opera; Elisetta in Cimarosa’s Il Matrimonio Segreto with Israeli Vocal Arts in Tel Aviv and Lucy in Menotti’s Telephone with Solo Opera.

Other notable debuts include: Musetta in La Boheme and Zerlina in Don Giovanni (Arty Award for Best Supporting Actress) with North Bay Opera, Sophie in Werther with San Francisco Lyric Opera, Christine in Phantom with Diablo Light Opera (‘96 Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Award for Best Actress), Cunegonde in Candide and Pamina in The Magic Flute with West Bay Opera, Adele in Die Fledermaus with the Fresno Philharmonic, and Carolina in Luisa Fernanda with the Jarvis Institute in Napa, California.

Ms Breckenridge received a Master of Music degree from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music where she appeared in numerous productions, including Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream as Queen Tytania and Cosi Fan Tutte as Despina as well as soprano solos in Handel’s Messiah at Davies Symphony Hall. Additional symphony credits include Carmina Burana, Mozart’s Requiem, and the Bachianas Brazileras No. 5 with the Vallejo Symphony. She will soon be heard in Samuel Barber’s Knoxville Summer of 1915 with the Tasajara Symphony.

Awards include being a Metropolitan Opera National Council Regional Finalist (‘99), winner of the prestigious IIE International Travel Award (‘99), a MacAllister Awards Regional finalist (‘99), and Mu Phi Epsilon winner (‘96). In 2001, Ms Breckenridge participated in the Santa Fe Opera apprentice artist program in New Mexico.

Most recently, she has performed the role of Adina in L’elisir d’amore with Inter- Mountain Opera in Montana and sang the role of Gretel in Hänsel und Gretel with Arizona Opera in November 2002.

She has been re-engaged by San Francisco Opera to sing the role of Inez in their production of Il Trovatore in June 2003 and returns for the fall season as Papagena in the revival of the Hockney production of Die Zauberflöte. Immediately following that she returns to Arizona Opera for performances as Yum-Yum in their production of The Mikado. At the beginning of 2004, she will be Juliet in Sacramento Opera’s production of Romeo and Juliette.

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MARNIE BRECKENRIDGE