ABIGAIL FISCHER (mezzo-soprano) has performed with New York Collegium, Early Music New York, the Rebel Ensemble, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, the Boston Pops, and has given world premieres of music by John Zorn, Elliott Carter, Nico Muhly, Missy Mazzoli, Bernard Rands, and the Bang on a Can artists.

Recent highlights include the VOX contemporary opera showcase and the Chandler Carter opera Strange Fruit with New York City Opera, and an outreach production of Hansel and Gretel with New Jersey State Opera. Other recent productions include the Lee Hoiby premiere This is the Rill Speaking with American Opera Projects, and the Peter Westergaard premiere Alice in Wonderland with Center for Contemporary Opera. Ms. Fischer’s relationship with new music ensembles such as Continuum and Sequitur has led to performances from Lincoln Center to Jakarta, Indonesia. In concert, Ms. Fischer has performed as a soloist in Mozart’s Requiem, Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis, Handel’s Messiah, William Albright’s Song to David, Bach’s Magnificat and Mass in B Minor, Mozart's Mass in C, and is an active chamber musician.

Ms. Fischer’s other opera roles include Dido (Purcell's Dido and Aeneas), Cherubino (Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro), Mother Marie (Poulenc's Dialogue of the Carmelites), Sesto (Mozart's La Clemenza di Tito), and Mrs. Lovett (Sondheim's Sweeney Todd). She is a graduate of the Eastman School of Music (MM) and Vassar College (BA), and has been a resident artist at the Banff Music Centre, the Tanglewood Music Center, the Aspen Music Festival and School, Opera North, and the Lucerne Festival Academy.

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