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The Canadian soprano, Megan Miceli, obtained her Honours Bachelor of Arts-Music and Sociology from the University of Guelph in Guelph, Ontario (2009-2013); her Master of Music degree in Opera and Voice Performance from McGill University in Montréal, Quebéc (2014-2016); and her Graduate Diploma in Performance from McGill University (2016-2017).
Megan Miceli was a member of Calgary Opera's Emerging Artist Development Program for their 2018-2019 season. She is an alumna of various other esteemed training programs including Songbook VII: New Opera 101, Toronto Summer Music Festival, Halifax Summer Opera Festival, Vocalypse: Opera from Scratch, and St. Andrews Vocal Techniques Workshop. She has also had the opportunity to perform in Opera Conference 2016 held in Montréal, Quebéc showcasing McGill's Virtual Acoustic Technology (VAT).
Megan Miceli has been praised for her “bright, pure, well focused high lyric soprano, with admirably steady and evenly produced tone” (Musical Toronto). Some role highlights include Mother/Gravedigger/Guilt Spectre in the world premiere of Ghost Opera, music by Veronika Krausas, commissioned by The Old Trout Puppet Workshop in partnership with the Banff Centre for the Arts and Creativity and Calgary Opera (2019), The Mother in Amahl and the Night Visitors (2018), Papagena in W.A. Mozart's The Magic Flute (2018), Berta in Il Barbiere di Siviglia (2018), the title character in Dawn Sonntag’s new opera Evangeline (2017), Morgana in George Frideric Handel's Alcina (2016), Aurore in Le portrait de Manon (2017), Despina in W.A. Mozart's Così fan tutte (2016), Giannetta in L’elisir d’amore (2016), and Rose in At the Statue of Venus (2014).
Recent concert performances include appearances with Tapestry Opera, the Toronto Mozart Players, Pax Christi Chorale, BrottOpera and the National Academy Orchestra, Opera 5, Opera in Concert, The Cantabile Chorale, The McGill Concert Choir, The McGill Baroque Orchestra, and L'Oasis Musicale, among others. Repertoire highlights include Giovanni Battista Pergolesi's Stabat Mater (2018), J.S. Bach's Magnificat (BWV 243) (2019), Antonio Vivaldi's Gloria (2019), Francesco Durante's Magnificat (2019), W.A. Mozart's Coronation Mass and Regina Coeli (2018), Dietrich Buxtehude's Membra Jesu Nostri (2017), Schubert's Der Hirt auf dem Felsen (2017), G.F. Handel's Israel in Egypt (2017), Gabriel Fauré's Requiem (2020), L.v. Beethoven's Mass in C major (2020), and Luciano Berio's Laborintus II (2016). Megan Miceli was recently honoured to win 21st Prize in the Toronto Mozart Vocal Competition. She has also competed as a semifinalist in the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal Manulife Competition and has received a distinguished mention in The Ottawa Choral Society’s New Discoveries Auditions.
Postponed performances for the 2019-2020 season due to COVID-19 include appearances with Saskatoon Opera and Saskatoon Symphony Orchestra, Pax Christi Chorale, the Guelph Symphony Orchestra, and Opera in the 21st Century.
Megan Miceli was an Artist Fellow with the Association for Opera in Canada's RBC Future Launch LINK Emerging Artist Program and a resident with the Banff Centre for Performing Arts' Opera in the 21st Century digital program for the 2020-2021 season. Upcoming performances for the 2022 season include performances with Amplified Opera, Pax Christi Chorale, and Oakville Choral. |
