American mezzo-soprano Delores Ziegler has appeared in the world’s greatest opera houses, including the Vienna Staatsoper, Teatro alla Scala, the Salzburg Festival, the Glyndebourne Festival, the Bastille in Paris, the Bayerische Staatsoper Munich, and Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires. The Georgia native has appeared with virtually every important opera company in the United States, including the Metropolitan Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, and the San Francisco Opera.
An acclaimed interpreter of bel canto mezzo roles, she was the first singer in operatic history to sing Romeo in Bellini’s I Capuleti e i Montecchi at the Bolshoi in Moscow, at the San Francisco Opera, and in Japan. In another milestone, Ziegler is the most recorded Dorabella (Così fan tutte) in operatic history, on two audio recordings – with Bernard Haitink for EMI and with Nikolaus Harnoncourt for Teldec – as well as on video of the La Scala production with Riccardo Muti, and in an acclaimed film version of Cosi, directed by Jean-Pierre Ponnelle, on Deutsche Grammophon.
Delores Ziegler was featured in the initial “Pavarotti, Plus! – Live from Lincoln Center” PBS Television Special. She made her Carnegie Hall debut in the Rossini Stabat Mater with Riccardo Muti in his farewell performance as Music Director of the Philadelphia Orchestra. With London’s BBC Symphony she sang Wagner’s Wesendonck Lieder; with the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome the St. John Passion, and, at Aix-en-Provence and in Venice, the Rossini Stabat Mater. A gifted lieder singer, she made her New York City recital debut in Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall Series in 1992.
Delores Ziegler’s discography includes twenty-eight recordings, the most recent of which is Ned Rorem’s song cycle “The Evidence of Things Not Seen,” for which she took part in the world premiere at Carnegie Hall.
Ms. Ziegler has an honorary doctorate and is a Distinguished Scholar Teacher and Professor in the School of Music at the University of Maryland.
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