Marjorie Owens
Vocalists
— Soprano
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Manager: Michael Benchetrit
Management Territory: Worldwide
About
Soprano Marjorie Owens has been receiving a great deal of acclaim as one of the most exciting young dramatic sopranos to have recently come to the public’s attention. Last year she completed her second season as a member of the Lyric Opera of Chicago’s Ryan Opera Center. After receiving her Bachelors of Music from Baylor University, she was accepted into the Houston Grand Opera Young Artist Studio where she studied for four seasons. Ms. Owens last performed the Countess Almaviva in the student matinees of Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro with . . . HGO. She was also seen on the main stage in La Traviata, Jenufa, Lucia di Lammermoor, Il Trovatore, and Mark Adamo’s Lysistrata. In her first year with the Lyric, she covered Liù in Turandot and Madame Lidoine in Dialogues des Carmelites and in her second year she sang Annina in La Traviata, covered Alice in Falstaff and Tatyana in Eugene Onegin, apart from singing scenes from Barber’s Antony and Cleopatra with the Waukesha Symphony. Last summer, Ms. Owens sang the roles of Giulietta in Verdi’s Un Giorno di Regno and Ariadne in Ariadne auf Naxos at Wolf Trap, both to great critical and public acclaim.
This season, Marjorie Owens will be heard in her celebrated portrayal of the title-role in Ariadne auf Naxos at the Boston Lyric Opera and will make her debut as Gerhilde in Die Walküre with the Opéra National de Paris. She will also cover the title-role in Aida at the Metropolitan Opera.
Last season, Miss Owens sang a concert of music by East German composers with the American Symphony Orchestra at Avery Fisher Hall, a recital of music by Weber at Bard College and covered the roles of Leonora in Verdi’s Il Trovatore and of Gerhilde in Wagner’s Die Walküre at the Metropolitan Opera.
Awards she has received include being a Grand Finals winner of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, the 2009 Leonie Rysanek award from the George London Foundation, a William Matheus Sullivan Grant, First Place in the Ft. Worth Marguerite McCammon Competition, First Place and the Audience Choice award in the Dallas Opera Guild Career Development Grant for Singers Competition, and Second Place in the McCollum Competition. Ms. Owens attended the Aspen Opera Theater Center in the summer of 2003, where she sang scenes from Tosca with David Zinman, and again in 2004 where she performed Miss Jessel in The Turn of the Screw with Richard Bado. She also performed Viktor Ullmann’s Sechs Lieder with James Conlon and the Aspen Chamber Orchestra and then again with the Maestro and the Cincinnati Linton Chamber Orchestra. In the summer of 2005 at Wolftrap, Ms. Owens sang Donna Anna in Don Giovanni with Ari Pelto. In past summers, she sang Fiordiligi in a concert version of Cosi fan tutte with the Lyric Opera Center for American Artists and Mimi in La Bohème with the Northwest Indiana Symphony.
