ELIZABETH BATTON

The mezzo-soprano Elizabeth Batton recently joined the Metropolitan Opera roster, having been a winner of the Metropolitan Opera National Counsel Auditions for the year 2000 and the first recipient of the Alton E. Peters Award. In the 2003/04 season she made her debut at the Los Angeles Opera as Nicklausse / Muse in an all-star cast production of Offenbach’s Les contes d’Hoffmann and she was Hermia in Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Pittsburgh Opera. Other engagements include Olga in Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin with the Boston Lyric Opera and Opera Theatre of St Louis, Dido in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas with the Chamber Opera Orchestra of NYC, as well as the role of Suzuki in Puccini’s Madama Butterfly with the Washington Opera.

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