Hoskins, Mary

Soprano
(Saratoga Springs, Utah)

First-year Adler Fellow soprano Mary Hoskins has been hailed as a “standout” with a voice that is “clear and utterly effortless” (The Opera Tattler). A participant of the 2024 Merola Opera Program, her assignments included the title role in the final scene of Ariadne auf Naxos in the Schwabacher Summer Concert, as well as an excerpt from Fidelio and Strauss’ showstopping aria “Zweite Brautnacht” from Die Ägyptische Helena for the Merola Grand Finale concert.

Hoskins won first place at the 2024 Palm Springs Opera Guild Vocal Competition and in 2022 and 2023 performed as a studio artist with Wolf Trap Opera for two summers, covering the title role of Pauline Viardot’s Cendrillon and performing in the Festival’s 2020 recorded scenes concert as Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte, Mimì in La Bohème, Mary in Gregory Spears’ Fellow Travelers, and the First Lady in Die Zauberflöte. Other notable roles include the title roles of Puccini’s Suor Angelica and Handel’s Theodora.

She is a two-year alumna of Dolora Zajick’s Institute for Young Dramatic Voices, where she was featured in the Final Concert, performing arias from Don Giovanni and Pagliacci. She has performed the roles of the Countess in Le Nozze di Figaro and Nella in Gianni Schicchi with Utah Vocal Arts Academy.

A graduate of Bringham Young University, where she received both her bachelor’s and master’s degrees, Hoskins initially learned to love singing from her family’s car trip belting sessions. She discovered opera just after high school and has loved it ever since.