Schedule
2009 and Previous Season Highlights
Hong Kong Philharmonic
Performance: Gorecki's Symphony No. 3: Sorrowful Songs
Date: November 2008
München Rundfunkorchester
Music/RCA Recording:
Belle Nuit with Vesselina Kasarova, Mezzo Soprano and Ulf Schirmer, Conductor
Concert Date: October 2007
Release of Recording: February 2008
California Philharmonic
Christmas Spectacular Concert Soloist
Date: December 2007
Deutsche Oper Berlin
Role: Erste Dame
Opera: Die Zauberflöte
Dates: 2005-2006 Season
Tour in Turkey Dates: Summer 2006
Deutsche Oper Berlin
Role: Nella
Opera: Gianni Schicchi
Dates: January, February 2006
Deutsche Oper Berlin
Role: Suor Genovieffa
Opera: Suor Angelica (Starring Cristina Gallardo-Domas)
Dates: January, February2006
Deutsche Oper Berlin
Role: Mimi (Cover)
Opera: La Bohème
Date: Fall 2005
Deutsche Oper Berlin
Role: Marguerite (Cover)
Opera: Faust
Date: Spring 2006
Julliard Opera Center
Role: Marenka
Opera: The Bartered Bride
Dates: Spring 2005
Julliard Opera Center
Role: Lia
Opera: L’enfant prodigue
Dates: December 2004
Wolf Trap Opera Company
National Symphony Orchestra
Stephen Lord, Conductor
Role: Mimi
Opera: La Bohème
Location: Filene Center
Dates: July 2004
Palm Beach Opera
Role: Blanche
Opera: Dialogues des Carmélites
Dates: February 2004
Aspen Music Festival
Role: Mimi
Opera: La Bohème
Dates: Summer 2003
Palm Beach Opera
Role: Antonia
Opera: Les Contes D’Hoffmann
Dates: February 2003
Carnegie Hall - Julliard Orchestra
Concert: Mahler Symphony No.2: Resurrection – Soprano Soloist
Location: Isaac Stern Auditorium
Date: December 2001
Carnegie Hall - Julliard Orchestra
Concert: Mahler Symphony No.2: Resurrection – Soprano Soloist
Location: Isaac Stern Auditorium
Date: December 2001
-"Soprano Melissa Shippen and tenor Matthew Garrett are the appealing and lyrical romantic leads, Marenka, the bride, and Jenik, the ostensible barterer. Shippen’s heroine is aptly feisty when crossed, but delighted to pull the wool over the eyes of silly Vasek (Jeremy Little). She has a strong enough instrument to carry off this spinto part, complete with dramatic, disillusioned aria, “How dark the day” (“Ten lásky sen”). The three soprano-tenor collaborations, Shippen’s early love duet and later angry, fiercely Slavic exchange with Garrett’s Jenik and the comic encounter with his half-brother and putative rival, Little’s Vasek, are among the performance’s highlights." ~ Theaterscene.net 2005, Bruce Michael-Gelbert