SearchAmerican soprano Deanna Breiwick, hailed by The New York Times for her “sweet sound and floating high notes” and for being a “vocal trapeze artist,” is enjoying an exciting and diverse career. Ms. Breiwick’s 2019/20 season included a return to Opernhaus Zürich in the title role of Mark-Anthony Turnage’s Coraline. Orchestral engagements included a return to San Antonio Symphony for Mahler’s Symphony No. 2, and a debut with the Detroit Symphony as a soloist in Handel’s Messiah. In the 2018/19 season, Ms. Breiwick returned to the Metropolitan Opera as a Shadow in the North American premiere of Nico Muhly’s Marnie; debuted with Michigan Opera Theatre as Gretel in Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel and Rosasharn in Ricky Ian Gordon’s The Grapes of Wrath; sang her first Adina in Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore with Opera Omaha, debuted the role of Cunegonde in Candide for a return to Des Moines Metro Opera, and sang the role of Norina in Don Pasquale for a house debut with Berkshire Opera Festival.
