FEE, Constance (USA)

FEE, Constance (USA)

Soprano, mezzo-soprano

Constance Fee has performed leading roles with the Opéra de la Bastille, Opéra Comique, and Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris; Opéra de Lyon, Netherlands Opera, New Israeli Opera, Welsh National Opera, l’Opéra Royal de Wallonie/Belgium, Staatsoper Stuttgart, Oper der Stadt Köln, Staatstheater Kassel, Vienna Volksoper, Houston Grand Opera, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, and Lyric Opera of Kansas City; and has collaborated with conductors Sir Charles Mackerras, Lorin Maazel, Leonard Slatkin, Patrick Summers, Myung-Whun Chung, David Robertson, and John Nelson, and stage directors Colin Graham, David Alden, John Cox, Robert Wilson, GianCarlo del Monaco, and François Rochaix.

Described in OPERNWELT Berlin as “vocally brilliant, dramatically spontaneous, and thoroughly alive,” her repertoire of over fifty soprano and mezzo-soprano roles includes the title roles in Puccini's Tosca, Bizet's Carmen, Rossini's La Cenerentola, Donizetti’s La Favorite, and Der Rosenkavalier by Richard Strauss, as well as Brangäne in Wagner's Tristan und Isolde; Der Komponist in Ariadne auf Naxos by Strauss; Charlotte in Massenet’s Werther; Giulietta in Offenbach’s Les contes d’Hoffmann; Marina in Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov; Dorabella in Così fan tutte, Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro, and Idamante in Idomeneo by Mozart; and Rosina in Il barbiere di Siviglia and Isolier in Le comte Ory by Rossini.

On the concert stage, she performed as soloist with the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra at the Rudolfinum in Prague, at the Internationale Musikfestwochen in Lucerne, Switzerland; the International Festival of Besançon, France; the New York Philharmonic, Milwaukee Symphony, Saint Louis Symphony, San Diego Symphony, and in concert with pianist Rudolf Serkin at the Marlboro Music Festival in concert repertoire including the Requiem masses of Verdi and Mozart; Stabat mater of Rossini and Poulenc; Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, Mass in C, and Choral Fantasy; Handel’s Messiah, Bach's St. Matthew Passion, Mahler’s Kindertotenlieder, and La damnation de Faust by Berlioz.

You can communicate with Ms. Fee in English, French, German, Italian.