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In the 2016-17 season mezzo-soprano Megan Mikailovna Samarin returns to Houston Grand Opera for three productions, singing Siébel in *Faust*, Second Secretary in *Nixon in China*, and covering Wellgunde in *Götterdämmerung*. 

In the 2015-16 season, Ms. Samarin sang Olga in *Eugene Onegin*, Lady Columbia in the world premier of *O Columbia*, Third Wood Nymph in *Rusalka*, and Lady Maresvale and Mistress Revels in the world premiere of Carlisle Floyd’s *Prince of Players* and covered Cherubino in *Le nozze di Figaro*, Fox in *The Little Prince*, and Julie Jordan in *Carousel*. In the 2015 summer season, Ms. Samarin made her Glimmerglass Festival debut as Marzia in the American premier of Vivaldi’s *Cato in Utica*. During the 2014-15 season Ms. Samarin made her Houston Grand Opera debut as Second Lady in *The Magic Flute* and Johanna in *Sweeney Todd*, also covering Dorabella in *Così fan tutte* as well as Suzuki in *Madame Butterfly*. Ms. Samarin also performed Angelina in Houston Grand Opera’s 60th Anniversary Concert featuring Joyce DiDonato. The 2012-13 season included singing La Marchande in *Les mamelles de Tirésias* at Wolf Trap Opera. 

Megan Samarin earned her bachelor’s degree at Manhattan School of Music, where she sang Farnace in *La Doriclea*, Anne in *The Mother of Us All*, and Vénus in *Orphée aux enfers*. As a member of the Seagle Music Colony Young Artist Program, she sang Madame Larina in *Eugene Onegin*, Cherubino in John Davies’s *The Three Little Pigs*, and Cis in *Albert Herring*. She was featured at the Brevard Music Center Janiec Opera Company as Soeur Mathilde in *Dialogues of the Carmelites* and Cousin Hebe in Gilbert and Sullivan’s *HMS Pinafore*. She is alumna of Houston Grand Opera’s Young Artists Vocal Academy. Other highlights include Hansel in *Hansel and Gretel* with the New York Lyric Opera Theater and Flower Girl in *Le nozze di Figaro* with Opera on the Avalon. 

Ms. Samarin is a 2016 Sara Tucker Study Grant award winner. She was a finalist in HGO’s Eleanor McCollum Competition Concert of Arias as well as a District Encouragement Award winner of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. She is a Shoshana Foundation Richard F. Gold Career Grant recipient for both 2014 and 2016. Megan Mikailovna Samarin is currently a member of the Houston Grand Opera Studio.
