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.
Maren performed Lansing McLoskey’s One Book Called Ulysses, a tour de force written for mezzo and sinfonietta, with Ensemble Ibis in Miami on Saturday, October 5. This was the second performance of that work, which […]
WHYY sat down to speak with Maren Montalbano and other cast members of Opera Philadelphia’s July performance of Amahl and the Night Visitors in this article. “It’s a story about poverty and generosity. It’s a […]
“As a performer, my favorite thing about opera is just dressing up and playing somebody else. The really great thing about opera is everything is over the top. It’s just the tiniest things can be blown way out of proportion. You find these beautiful arias that are basically, ‘oh, I lost a ring.’ I think that there’s something really beautiful, magical about that. Any small moment in anybody’s life can seem like it’s the worst or the best thing in the world. It’s really cool to kind of be a part of that and magnify emotions in that way.”
Maren’s solo in Edie Hill’s Spectral Spirits was called out in this RARB.org review of The Crossing’s 2022 Grammy-nominated album, BORN. Read the full article here. “Soloists Maren Montalbano and Rebecca Myers blow me away…”Montalbano’s […]
Ms. Montalbano’s performance of Baltic and Nordic songs in Lyric Fest’s Songs from the Tundra was described as “winning” by the Broad Street Review. Maren Montalbano sang with warmth and expression that added luster to […]
Opera Today had many wonderful things to say about the premiere of Lembit Beecher’s new opera about Alzheimer’s disease, Sky on Swings. Ms. Montalbano was mentioned in her role as a part of a quartet […]
The Review The Broad Street Review article was a review of The Crossing‘s second Month of Moderns 2018 concert, titled VOYAGES. Ms. Montalbano sang a solo in the world premiere of Benjamin C.S. Boyle’s Voyages […]
Melissa Dunphy’s Hervararkviða, which was written for Sea Tangle: Songs from the North, has gotten a second life in Ohio. It was featured on The American Sound on Radio WOSU in March 2018. A Gender-Bending […]
PRESS ADVISORY: Network for New Music GERMANTOWN POETRY PROJECT Network for New Music announces The Germantown Poetry Project (GPP), a new initiative pairing poets, composers and musicians with Germantown-area teens and adults, with the goal of […]
The Review The Philadelphia Inquirer review was a comparison of how the different performance spaces (Philadelphia Episcopal Cathedral vs. Merkin Concert Hall) affected how the works were heard. Ms. Montalbano is mentioned briefly (using her […]
