Soprano
Born in Louisiana and raised in Texas, Mary Mills graduated from
the College-Conservatory of Music at University of Cincinnati and
received a Masters of Music at Yale University. Among her
numerous competitions and awards, she has won the Metropolitan
National Council Auditions and the George London Award.
The American soprano made her professional debut at the Houston
Grand Opera. She has also been a frequent guest artist of the
Dallas Opera, Washington Opera, Seattle Opera, Florida Grand
Opera, San Francisco Opera (Arabella / title role, Carmen / Micaela,
La Bohème / Mimi), Michigan Opera Theatre and the Opera
Company of Philadelphia. Numerous engagements with the
Metropolitan Opera New York, notably in particular her
performance as Mimi in Franco Zeffirelli's staging of La Bohème.
The artist made her debut at the Paris Bastille in 1997 in the title
role of Massenet's Manon, and was re-engaged in the same theatre
to sing Micaela in Carmen as well as Marguerite in Faust and at the
Palais Garnier and has also appeared as Infantin in Zemlimsky's
Der Zwerg. Mary Mills has also been heard in Santiago de Chile,
Monte Carlo, Opera de Lyon (Faust / Marguerite) and Bilbao. Mary
Mills sang her first Katya Kabanova in Saint Gallen and the same
role later in the new production for the Stuttgart State Opera in
2010. She sang her first Elsa / Lohengrin in Stuttgart, in 2008 she
originated the title role of Joan of Arc in Walter Braunfels' new
opera Szenen aus dem Leben der Heiligen Johanna in a Christoph
Schlingensief production at the Deutsche Oper in Berlin, repeating
this great success in the revival in 2010 and 2013. Mary Mills is
also a frequent guest artist of the Berlin State Opera. She has
collaborated with some of the most notable conductors including
Antonio Allemandi, Marco Armiliato, Gary Bertini, James Conlon,
Mark Elder, Christoph Eschenbach, John Fiore, Ivan Fischer, Neemi
Järvi, Armin Jordan, Jiri Kout, Emmanuel Krivine, Fabio Luisi,
Jacques Lacombe, Marc Minkowski, Kirill Petrenko, Carlo Rizzi,
Donald Runnicles and Ulf Schirmer.
Representation: Germany / various