MARY-ELLEN NESI

Greek mezzo-soprano, she has pursued a significant international career in major theatres and festivals in Europe, USA and Asia. Her repertoire focuses on the pre-classical, Baroque, classical and bel canto periods, having sung more than 40 leading roles in operas by Monteverdi, Handel, Vivaldi, Porpora, Gluck, Mozart, Rossini, Bellini, Donizetti, Massenet, Bizet, Verdi, etc. She has collaborated with distinguished conductors and has recorded for Sony, Decca, Archiv, Virgin, Deutsche Harmonia Mundi, MDG, Berlin Classics, Tafelmusik Media, Dynamic, Naxos. Moreover, she gives recitals and concerts worldwide and has performed works by contemporary Greek composers in Greece and abroad. For her solo album entitled Archetypon (MDG) on female portraits from ancient Greece, she received enthusiastic reviews from the international press and was nominated for ‘Singer of the Year’ by the major German Opus Klassik awards. She has performed numerous roles at the GNO such as Dorabella (Così fan tutte), Mercédès / Carmen (Carmen), Charlotte (Werther), Ruggiero (Alcina), Angelina (La Cenerentola), La Muse / Nicklausse (Les Contes d’Hoffmann) and Frangoyannoù (The Murderess).