Margaret Lattimore
Grammy nominated Mezzo-Soprano Margaret Lattimore has sung with the Metropolitan Opera, New York City Opera, Washington Opera, Dallas Opera, Michigan Opera Theatre, Berkshire Opera, Florida Grand Opera, Central City Opera, San Diego Opera, Opera Festival of New Jersey, Austin Lyric Opera, and Netherlands Opera amongst others. After winning the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions at the tender age of 24, Miss Lattimore became a member of the Lindemann Metropolitan Opera Young Artist Development Program. In October of that same year, she made her Metropolitan Opera debut as Dorotea in Stiffelio with Placido Domingo. Other Metropolitan Opera roles include Meg Page in Falstaff and Jordan Baker in The Great Gatsby both under the baton of the James Levine.
The florid music of Rossini has always been present in Ms. Lattimore’s career and she has sung the roles of Rosina in Il Barbiere di Siviglia and the title role in La Cenerentola in nearly 25 companies across North America. Richard Dyer of The Boston Globe has written of her work, “The undisputed star of the occasion was mezzo-soprano Margaret Lattimore, who has it all looks, intelligence, musicianship, personality, technique, and a voice of bewitching amber color. She sang the rondo finale from Rossini’s La Cenerentola with high spirits and dazzling virtuoso aplomb.” Other roles include, Octavian in Der Rosenkavalier, Der Componist in Ariadne auf Naxos, and Sister Helen Prejean in Dead Man Walking. Ms Lattimore’s Mozart repertoire includes Cherubino in Le Nozze di Figaro, Dorabella in Cosi fan Tutte, Zerlina in Don Giovanni and Tamiri in a production of Il Re Pastore with The Mostly Mozart Festival in New York.
Ms. Lattimore's New York recital debut under the auspices of the Marilyn Horne Foundation led to her engagement by Carnegie Hall and a Weill Recital Hall recital. In the spring of 2003, Ms. Lattimore appeared with The Fleet Celebrity Series in recital at Boston's Jordan Hall and was the mezzo soloist in the world premiere of John Harbison's Requiem with the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Symphony Hall and Carnegie Hall. Other recital engagements include appearances at Chicago's Ravinia Festival, the Covent Garden Festival in London, New York's Morgan Library, the 92nd Street Y, the Library of Congress and her native Long Island. Ms. Lattimore has appeared with the New World Symphony, Indianapolis Symphony, New York Philharmonic, Boston Symphony Orchestra, The Orchestra of St. Lukes, Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra New World Symphony, and the Hong Kong Philharmonic and has performed with conductors that include James Levine, Bernard Haitink, Kurt Masur, James Conlon, Andrew Davis, Michael Tilson Thomas, Sir David Wilcocks, Raymond Leppard and Nicholas McGeagan to name just a few. In addition to the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, Miss Lattimore has won the Eleanor McCollum Award from the Houston Grand Opera Studio, a Jacobson Study Grant from the Richard Tucker Foundation, the prestigious George London Award and most recently became a 2006 Grammy Nominee for the Koch International recording of John Harbison’s Motetti di Montale.
Recently, Ms Lattimore has performed Erika in Samuel Barber’s Vanessa for the San Diego Opera and Angelina in Rossini’s La Cenerentola for the Dallas Opera, Calgary Opera, Arizona Opera and Opera Birmingham as well as appearances with the Boulder Bach Festival, The San Diego Symphony and The Cathedral Choral Societyin Washington D.C. This past season saw her in performances of Ottone in Handel’s Agrippina with Boston Baroque, and Handel’s Messiah with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and Colorado Symphony Orchestra, as well her first performances of Rossini’s Stabat Mater with the London Symphony Chorus, Verdi’s Requiem with the New Haven Symphony, Mahler’s Lieder eines Fahrenden Gesellen with Mahlerfestin Boulder, Colorado and recitals at the Windham Chamber Music Festival and Songfestin Malibu, California. Ms. Lattimore’s 2007/2008 season includes performances of Handel’s Messiah with New York Philharmonic Orchestra and the Pittsburgh Symphony, Juno in Semele with Opera Boston and Boston Baroque, Tamiri in Mozart’s Il Re Pastore with Philharmonia Baroque with Nicholas McGegan conducting and debut performances of Mahler’s Second Symphony with the Colorado Music Festival and Elijah with the Honolulu Symphony. Ms. Lattimore attended the Crane School of Music at the State University of New York at Potsdam where she studied with Patricia Misslin. She now resides with her family in Boulder, Colorado where she is an Assistant Professor of Voice at the University of Colorado College of Music.
According to several independently verifiable sources, Maggie (as she is know to her friends) totally rocks.