Biography
Born in the United States, Meagan Miller studied at the Juilliard School and is celebrated worldwide on the most important opera and concert stages for her colourful, powerful soprano voice with its secure high register and her stage presence.
Meagan Miller has worked with conductors such as Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Jeffrey Tate, Simone Young, Alain Altinoglu, Christoph von Dohnány, Ulf Schirmer, Vladimir Jurowski, Jun Märkl, Alexander Joel, Axel Kober, Donald Runnicles, Pinchas Steinberg, Markus Stenz, Constantin Trinks and Jaap van Zweden.
Concert engagements have taken her to Carnegie Hall in New York, the Berlin Philharmonic, the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Hollywood Bowl, the Lucerne Festival, the Edinburgh Festival and the Enescu Festival, among others. She has also sung orchestral songs by Richard Strauss with the Radio Filharmonisch Orkest at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Verdi's Messa da Requiem in Prague and Mahler's 8th Symphony in Graz, Linz, Orange and with the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra. She is also in demand as an interpreter of contemporary American music and has premiered numerous works, some of which were written especially for her.
Opera highlights of recent seasons include Brünnhilde in the new production of Siegfried at the Teatro Massimo di Palermo, Sieglinde/Die Walküre at the Washington National Opera, in Melbourne, Prague, Leipzig and Lucerne, Senta/Der fliegende Holländer at the Zurich Opera House and in Vienna, Elsa/Lohengrin at the Théâtre Royal de La Monnaie in Brussels, Elisabeth/Tannhäuser at the New National Theatre Tokyo, the title roles in Richard Strauss' Daphne and Ariadne auf Naxos at the Vienna State Opera, as well as the latter work in Beijing and Warsaw, Kaiserin/Die Frau ohne Schatten at the Metropolitan Opera New York, Elisabetta/Don Carlo at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Minnie/La fanciulla del West at the Michigan Opera Theatre, the Opéra Monte Carlo and the Leipzig Opera, where she also made her role debut as Isolde/Tristan und Isolde under the baton of Ulf Schirmer. She also sang Marta in the new production of d'Albert's Tiefland at the Théâtre du Capitole de Toulouse, Marie/Marietta in Korngold's Die tote Stadt at the Hamburg State Opera, in Boston and Tokyo, the Feldmarschallin in the new production of Der Rosenkavalier in Wroclaw, and the title role in Ariadne auf Naxos at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna.
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Repertoire
Repertoire Concert
Barber | Knoxville: Summer of 1915 |
Beaser | The Occasions |
Beethoven | Symphony No. 9 |
Missa Solemnis | |
Mass in C, op. 86 | |
Christus am Ölberg | |
Ah, Perfido! | |
Brahms | Ein deutsches Requiem |
Braunfels | Te Deum |
Britten | Les Illuminations* |
Bruckner | Mass in f minor |
Charpentier | Te Deum |
Dvorak | Requiem |
Fauré | Requiem |
Haydn | The Creation |
Handel | Messiah |
Mahler | Symphony No. 2 |
Symphony No. 8 (Soprano 1 & 2) | |
Mendelssohn | Vom Himmel hoch |
Elijah | |
Mozart | Requiem |
Laudate Dominum | |
Poulenc | Gloria |
La Dame de Monte Carlo* | |
Ravel | Shéhérazade* |
Strauss, R. | Vier letzte Lieder |
Orchesterlieder | |
Schoenberg | Gurre Lieder |
Vaughan Williams | Dona Nobis Pacem |
Verdi | Messa da Requiem |
Zemlinsky | Lyric Symphony* |
Repertoire Opera
Barber | Antony and Cleopatra | Cleopatra |
Vanessa | Vanessa* | |
d'Albert | Tiefland | Marta |
Floyd | Susannah | Suannah |
Franck | Hulda | Hulda |
Haydn | Armida | Armida |
Korngold | Die tote Stadt | Marie/Marietta |
Mozart | Die Zauberflöte | 1. Dame |
Le nozze di Figaro | La Contessa | |
Don Giovanni | Donna Anna | |
Donna Elvira | ||
Idomeneo | Elettra* | |
Così fan tutte | Fiordiligi | |
Puccini | La fanciulla del West | Minnie |
La rondine | Gabriella | |
Manon Lescaut | Manon Lescaut* | |
Tosca | Tosca* | |
Turandot | Turandot* | |
Strauss, J. | Die Fledermaus | Rosalinde |
Strauss, R. | Ariadne auf Naxos | Ariadne |
Der Rosenkavalier | Feldmarschallin | |
Die Frau ohne Schatten | Kaiserin | |
Daphne | Daphne | |
Die Liebe der Danae | Danae | |
Elektra | Chrysothemis* | |
Arabella | Arabella* | |
Die ägyptische Helena | Helena* | |
Capriccio | Gräfin Madeleine* | |
Verdi | Don Carlos | Elisabetta |
Falstaff | Alice Ford | |
Otello | Desdemona | |
Aida | Aida* | |
Il trovatore | Leonora* | |
La Forza del Destino | Donna Leonora* | |
Un ballo in maschera | Amelia* | |
Simon Boccanegra | Amelia Grimaldi* | |
Wagner | Der fliegende Holländer | Senta |
Tannhäuser | Elisabeth | |
Lohengrin | Elsa | |
Tristan und Isolde | Isolde | |
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg | Eva | |
Die Walküre | Sieglinde | |
Siegfried | Brünnhilde | |
Zemlinsky | Der König Kandaules | Nyssia |
News

"The Symphony of a Thousand" in the Land of a Thousand Lakes
The Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra will be ending their concert season with a musical fireworks display, when they perform Gustav Mahler's Symphony no 8, the monumental "Symphony of a Thousand", on three consecutive nights in Helsinki's Musiikkitalo. Under the baton of Jukka-Pekka Saraste, no less than six choirs and eight soloists will be joining the orchestra, including Meagan Miller and Tómas Tómasson who will be singing the parts of Magna Peccatrix and Pater Profundus, respectively.The concerts take place on May 28th, 29th and 30th, 2024.
For more information about the concerts and cast:
www.helsinginkaupunginorkesteri.fi/...
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Tristan und Isolde / Oper Leipzig / 05.10.19 / mdr.de
"Die Sopranistin aus den USA spielt und singt ihren Part absolut souverän"
Tristan und Isolde / Oper Leipzig / 05.10.19 / omm.de
"Selten hört man die Isolde so exakt kontrolliert und wirklich schön klingend gesungen"
Mahler's 8th Symphony / Chorégies d'Orange / 04.08.19 / gbopera.it
"impose son soprano généreux et coloré qui passe sans forcer au-dessus de l'orchestre jouant les nuance avec subtilité"
Tiefland / Théâtre du Capitole de Toulouse / 03.10.17 / resmusica.com
"fait admirer au public toulousain son timbre puissant, sa voix brillante et une émotion qui fait mouche"
Tiefland / Théâtre du Capitole de Toulouse / 02.10.17 / classictoulouse.com
"un portrait vocal et scénique d'une grande sensibilité"