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 made her professional opera debut in November 2011 with Austin Lyric Opera as Second Lady in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte. Her recent performances h
ave 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.
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, Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle, the NY premiere of Jose Maria Vitier’s Misa Cubana.
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.
Caitlin is the Co-Director of Opera on Tap Boston, whose mission is to bring classical music to non-traditional performance spaces.