Dixon has cultivated a passion for French repertoire ranging from Baroque to Berlioz, with roles including Gluck’s Orphée, Cendrillon, Marguerite (La damnation de Faust), and Carmen. ![]() Dixon continued to perform amid the pandemic joining The Atlanta Opera for her house and role debut as Carmen, was also a soloist in San Francisco Opera’s Holiday Gala alongside Michael Fabiano and Sondra Radvanovsky, appeared as a featured guest artist with Opera San José, and joined West Edge Opera for Elizabeth Cree (Doris). ![]() In “The Future is Now,” the end-of-season concert featuring the Adler Fellows, she performed a duet from Massenet’s Cendrillon and ‘Dopo notte’ from Handel’s Ariodante. During her two-year tenure as an Adler Fellow, she was seen in Carmen (Mércèdes), Rusalka (Third Wood Sprite), Manon Lescaut (Italian Singer), and Hansel and Gretel (Sandman). Last season she made debuts at Opera Louisiane in the title role of Bolcom’s Lucrezia, Hawaii Opera Theatre in The Tragedy of Carmen (Carmen), Festival Opera in Norma (Adalgisa), and Tel Aviv Summer Opera in Carmen (title role), and returned to the Ravinia Festival for La clemenza di Tito (Annio) conducted by James Conlon and San Francisco Opera for a Schwabacher Debut Recital.Īshley made her San Francisco Opera mainstage debut in the world premiere of Heggie’s It’s a Wonderful Life (Angel First Class). Future engagements include the world premiere production of Intelligence at Houston Grand Opera in 23/24. ![]() This season Ashley makes debuts with Amarillo Opera in Il barbiere di Siviglia (Rosina), embarks on a duet recital tour with her husband tenor Carlos Santelli, and participates in the final workshop of Heggie’s new opera Intelligence. ![]() She made her critically acclaimed debut with LA Opera in Roberto Devereux (Sara) under the baton of Eun Sun Kim and alongside bel canto veterans Ramon Vargas and Angela Meade. Mezzo-soprano Ashley Dixon is a Grand Finals Winner of The Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions and a former Adler Fellow with San Francisco Opera.
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