Voice: | Soprano |
Nationality: | American |
Year of Birth: | 1983 |
Megan Marie Hart (born 1983) is an American operatic soprano from Eugene, Orgeon. A member of the Landestheater Detmold, she appeared in leading operatic roles and in concerts in America and Europe. She performed music by Jewish composers.
Hart received her Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, where she was a student of Richard Miller. She received a Professional Studies Certificate (PS) from Manhattan School of Music, where she studied with Mignon Dunn. In 2006 she attended a master class by Marilyn Horne. She was a participant in Seattle Opera’s Young Artist program from 2007 to 2010. In 2010 Hart again studied with Marilyn Horne, at the Music Academy of the West, where she won the Marilyn Horne Song Competition. Marilyn Horne has since remained Hart's teacher.
Hart's operatic repertoire spans Baroque roles such as Handel's Alcina, and Almirena in his Rinaldo, leading ladies in Mozart operas such as the Countess in Le nozze di Figaro, Donna Anna in Don Giovanni, and Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte. She appeared in roles from the 20th century, such as Lady Billows in Britten's Albert Herring, the title role in Poulenc's La voix humaine and Blanche in his Dialogues of the Carmelites. She has performed lirico-spinto roles such as Verdi's Luisa Miller and Gilda in his Rigoletto, Puccini's Mimì in La bohème and Tosca, and Chrysothemis in Elektra by Richard Strauss.