Margaret Lattimore

Acclaimed 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 in 1993, 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. In reviewing her performance for the New York Times, Anthony Tommasini wrote, "The mezzo-soprano Margaret Lattimore as Jordan is ideal in voice and bearing for the character: stately, athletic, confident." Ms. Lattimore's New York recital debut under the auspices of the Marilyn Horne Foundation led to her engagement by Carnegie Hall for her Weill Recital Hall debut in 1999. Other recital engagements include appearances at Chicago's Ravinia Festival, the Covent Garden Festival in London, New York's Morgan Library and 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 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 and Nicholas McGeagan to name just a few. Miss Lattimore is the 1997 recipient of the prestigious George London Award and has received both the Eleanor McCollum Award from the Houston Grand Opera Studio and a Jacobson Study Grant from the Richard Tucker Foundation.