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date = "2019-03-11T00:06:52+00:00"
discipline = "Mezzo-soprano"
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With a voice "capable of sinister low chest tones and robust high notes" (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) and a stage presence that has been called "a force" (Opera News), dramatic mezzo-soprano Lindsay Ammann is rapidly rising as a radiant star in the opera world. Possessing an instrument well-suited for the most dramatic of roles, Ms. Ammann is proving to be a future staple in the works of Verdi and Wagner.  
  
Lindsay Ammann’s 2018-2019 season includes a return to the Metropolitan Opera as Abbess in _Suor Angelica_ and Ciesca in _Gianni Schicchi_ while also covering Principessa in _Suor Angelica_ conducted by Bertrand de Billy. She returns to the Washington National Opera as Olga in _Eugene Onegin_ and the Opera Theatre of Saint Louis as Maddalena in _Rigoletto_. She also makes her debut with the Madison Opera as Ježibaba in _Rusalka_ conducted by John DeMain.  
  
In David Pountney’s new production of _Der Ring des Nibelungen_ at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Lindsay Ammann debuted as Flosshilde in _Das Rheingold_ and returned to sing Schwertleite in _Die Walküre_, both conducted by Andrew Davis. She also made her debuts at Opera Omaha as Quickly in _Falstaff_, Dallas Opera in Douglas Cuomo’s _Arjuna's Dilemma_, and Azucena in _Il trovatore_ at Central City Opera.  
  
Lindsay Amman debuted at the Washington National Opera in Wagner’s _Der Ring des Nibelungen_ directed by Francesca Zambello and conducted by Philippe Augin to great critical acclaim. She was heard as Erda in both _Das Rheingold_ and _Siegfried_, as well as the First Norn in _Götterdämmerung_ and Schwertleite in _Die Walküre_. She has made other debuts at Grand Théâtre de Genève as Dritte Dame in _Die Zauberflöte_, North Carolina Opera as Suzuki in _Madama Butterfly_, Aalto-Musiktheater Essen as Ježibaba in a new production of _Rusalka_, and the Canadian Opera Company as Schwertleite in _Die Walküre_. She returned to the COC as the 1st Norn in _Götterdämmerung_ conducted by Johannes Debus and Death in _The Nightingale_ conducted by Johannes Debus. In concert, she has sung Verdi’s _Messa da requiem_ and as the Old Lady in _Candide_ with the South Dakota Symphony, Martha in John Adams’ _The Gospel According to the Other Mary_ with the Netherlands Radio Orchestra and her Casals Festival debut in Puerto Rico as Brangäne in a concert version of _Tristan und Isolde_.   
  
Ms. Ammann made her Metropolitan Opera debut in Robert LePage's _Der Ring des Nibelungen_ as Rossweisse in _Die Walküre_ under the baton of James Levine. She was recently a member of the ensemble at Staatsoper Stuttgart where she sang Dame Quickly in _Falstaff_, Olga in _Eugene Onegin_, the world premiere of Peter Pan, Mary in _Der fliegende Holländer_, Third Lady in _Die Zauberflöte_ and First Norn and Flosshilde in _Götterdämmerung_, while covering Waltraute. She was also seen in productions of _Ariadne auf Naxos_ and _Die Zauberflöte_. Other performances include alto soloist in a fully staged production of Handel's _Messiah_ with the Pittsburgh Symphony, Beatrice in _Le donne curiose_ with the Wolf Trap Opera company and the Beggar Woman in _Sweeney Todd_ with the National Symphony Orchestra.   
  
Ms. Ammann finished her Resident Artist program with Pittsburgh Opera singing the roles of Alisa in _Lucia di Lammermoor_, Goffredo in _Rinaldo_, Olga in _Eugene Onegin_, Dame Quickly in _Falstaff_, Lucretia in _The Rape of Lucretia_, and covered the title role of _Carmen_. A former Gerdine Young Artist the Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, she has been seen there as Olga in _Eugene Onegin_, Kate Pinkerton in _Madame Butterfly_, Page of Herodias in _Salome_, and covered Samira in _The Ghosts of Versailles_ and Antonia's Mother in _The Tales of Hoffmann_. She was also a National Semifinalist in the 2007 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions.  
  
Ms. Ammann can be seen on the _Die Walküre_ DVD from the Metropolitan Opera's _Ring Cycle_ and the documentary _Wagner's Dream_, as well as heard on the Grammy Award-winning _Götterdämmerung_ CD, all commercially available on Deutsche Grammophon.