BETANY COFFLAND*

MEZZO-SOPRANO

During the 2011 – 2012 season, Resident artist Betany Coffland performs the roles Idamante (Idomeneo), The Woman (La voix humaine), and Siebel (Faust). Last season, Ms. Coffland appeared as Dolly (Anna Karenina) and Rosina (The Barber of Seville). Other roles performed as an OSJ resident artist include Javotte (Manon), Angelina (La Cenerentola), Cherubino (The Marriage of Figaro) Olga (Eugene Onegin), Dorabella (Così fan tutte), and the title role in Carmen. She received a MM degree from The Juilliard School and a Bachelor of Music in vocal performance from New England Conservatory of Music. She recently lived a year in Italy, studying the language for her profession while performing on concerts throughout the Umbrian and Tuscan regions.

In 2003, she received the Bori Grant for foreign music study in the Czech language where she studied in Prague and has received scholarships from The Juilliard School, the Aspen Music Festival, and New England Conservatory of Music.

Ms. Coffland won the Grand Prize at the Margaret Kimball Competition and she won first place in the Treasure Valley Concerto Competition.

Her operatic roles also include Zita in Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi, L’Enfant in Ravel’s L’Enfant et les sortilegès, Miles in Britten’s The Turn of The Screw and Giannetta from Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore.

Fond of concert and recital repertoire, Ms. Coffland has been heard in recitals in Massachusetts, Missouri, Kansas, Idaho and New York, including solo performances in Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall and in Boston’s Jordan Hall.

*Ms. Coffland’s residency made possible, in part, by fellowship grants from George and Susan Crow and Prof. John M. Heineke and Prof. Catherine R. Montfort.