News about Maren Montalbano. This includes news, reviews, and press releases about her projects, performances, and recordings. If you are trying to find out more about what Maren is doing, this is a good place to start.

Ms. Montalbano was praised in the press for her performance in Lyric Fest’s Bawdy Bard. Lyric Fest’s ‘Bawdy Bard’ – Tom Purdom for Broad Street Review, September 27, 2011 Mezzo Maren Montalbano added color and personal liveliness; bass Colin Dill contributed a pleasingly unforced masculinity; and tenor Steven Bradshaw spanned a broad range with a […]

The Broad Street Review reviewed Ms. Montalbano’s performance in Benjamin Britten’s Abraham and Isaac with Choral Arts of Philadelphia. Choral Arts Society’s Gesualdo Program (2nd Review): David Price’s dark tenor and Maren Montalbano’s mezzo created a vivid, remorseless picture of a father tormented by divided loyalties and a son who gradually works out the truth […]

The Reading Eagle reviewed last week’s performance of Mozart’s Requiem with the Reading Choral Society. Choral society in top form for program of sacred works The soloists, who were featured throughout the concert, were impressive…Soprano Jennifer Michalik (who sings with the Wheatland Chorale) has a crystalline timbre, and alto Maren Montalbano Brehm is equally clear […]

Ms. Montalbano will be performing the alto solo in Mozart’s Requiem and Vesperae Solennes de Confessore with the Reading Choral Society. Reading Choral Society Peter Hopkins, conductor Jennifer Michalik, soprano Maren Montalbano, mezzo-soprano Steve McMahon, tenor Jackson Williams, bass Where Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Church 701 Franklin Street West Reading, PA 19611 When Sunday, April 10, […]

Ms. Montalbano will be performing the role of Isaac in Benjamin Britten’s Abraham and Isaac. This piece will be one of three of Britten’s Five Canticles that will be performed with Choral Arts of Philadelphia, directed by Matthew Glandorf. Written in 1952, Britten adapted text from medieval language of the Chester Miracle Plays rather than […]

Ms. Montalbano will be one of 12 women singing with the New York Philharmonic, performing Ligeti’s Clocks and Clouds (1973), under the direction of Esa-Pekka Salonen. The title of Ligeti’s Clocks and Clouds refers to an essay by the Anglo-Austrian philosopher Karl Raimund Popper, “On Clocks and Clouds.” Popper’s essay describes two different kinds of […]

Ms. Montalbano will be performing the alto solo (the roles of the Angel and the Queen) in Mendelssohn’s epic oratorio, Elijah with the Philadelphia Biblical University Symphony and Chorus in Langhorne, PA. When: February 25, 2011 at 8:00 p.m. Where: William Chatlos Memorial Chapel Philadelphia Biblical University Langhorne, PA Joseph Caminiti, conductor Steven Condy, baritone […]

Below are reviews of this Friday’s performance of Verdi’s Requiem with the Lancaster Symphony Orchestra. Verdi concert is a powerful show – Intelligencer Journal, November 12, 2010 The four soloists — soprano Julie-Ann Whitely Green, mezzo-soprano Maren Montalbano, tenor Jeffrey Halili and baritone Zeffin Quinn Hollis — were capable interpreters of their parts. These parts […]

Ms. Montalbano will be performing the mezzo-soprano solo of Verdi’s Requiem with the Lancaster Symphony Orchestra in Lancaster, PA. When: November 12, 13 and 14, 2010 Opening Night Friday at 8 pm Saturday at 3 and 8 pm Sunday at 7:30 pm Where: At the historic Fulton Opera House 12 N. Prince St., Downtown Lancaster […]

For those of you who missed Ms. Montalbano’s recital on March 20, there will be another chance to hear Jeremy Gill‘s Helian and Benjamin C.S. Boyle‘s Le passage des rêves on the New Music Philadelphia Webcast this Wednesday, May 12, 2010. Both composers will be discussing their works immediately before the webcast, so tune in! […]