Elizabeth DeShong

(Williamsport, Pennsylvania)

2022-23 Season: Octavia, Antony and Cleopatra

San Francisco Opera Highlights: Maffio Orsini in Lucrezia Borgia; Suzuki in Madama Butterfly

Recent and Upcoming: Bradamante in Handel's Alcina with English Concert (Los Angeles, Berkeley); Calbo in Rossini's Maometto II (Washington Concert Opera); Suzuki in Madama Butterfly (Metropolitan Opera, Glyndebourne Festival); Odoardo Douglas in Mercadante's Il Proscritto (Opera Rara Barbican Center); Hänsel in Hänsel and Gretel (Melbourne Symphony, Edinburgh International Festival); Pauline in Pique Dame (Lyric Opera of Chicago); Bach cantatas concert (Haymarket Opera Chicago); Adalgisa in Norma (North Carolina Opera); recital (Vocal Arts D.C.); Martha in John Adams' The Gospel According to the Other Mary (Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia); Handel's Messiah (San Francisco Symphony, Houston Symphony); Ariel in Sibelius' The Tempest (Los Angeles Philharmonic); Rossini's Stabat Mater (Philadelphia Orchestra); Juno/Ino in Handel's Semele with The English Concert (European and U.S. tours); Verdi Requiem (Minnesota Orchestra); Sesto in La Clemenza di Tito (Los Angeles Opera); Ruggiero in Alcina (Washington National Opera); Arsace in Semiramide (Metropolitan Opera); Mendelssohn's Elija (Music of the Baroque); Schubert's Mass No. 6 (Chicago Symphony Orchestra); Maxwell Raimi's Three Lisel Mueller Settings (Chicago); Bernstein's First Symphony (Proms)