Ann McMahon Quintero - Old LadyMezzo SopranoPortland Opera Debut Praised for her "crème caramel tones" and "warm and ingratiating mezzo" (Albuquerque Journal), Ann McMahon Quintero's engagements in the 2011-12 season include performances of Azucena in Il Trovatore with Opéra Royal de Wallonie, Dame Quickly in Falstaff with Opéra de Lausanne, and the Old Lady in Candide with Portland Opera. In the 2010-11 season, Ms. Quintero's engagements included performances of Hippolyta in A Midsummer Night's Dream with Boston Lyric Opera, and the Verdi Requiem with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra.
She began the 2009-10 season with her first performances of the Verdi Requiem with the Cathedral Choral Society at Washington National Cathedral and returned to Boston Baroque for Handel's Messiah. In the 2008-09 season, she returned to Washington National Opera as Auntie in Peter Grimes and to Boston Baroque for Michael Haydn's Requiem in C Minor. She also sang Dame Quickly in excerpts of Falstaff at the National Endowment for the Arts Opera Honors Inaugural Awards Concert at the Kennedy Center.
In recent seasons, the mezzo-soprano made her international operatic debut with New Israeli Opera as La Haine in Gluck's Armide and returned to the company as Marquise Melibea in Il viaggio a Reims. She also sang Baba the Turk in The Rake's Progress with Angers Nantes Opera and joined Teatro alla Scala for its production of Maazel's 1984. Previously with Washington National Opera, she has sung Tisbe in La cenerentola and Dame in Die Zauberflöte. She joined Opera Theatre of Saint Louis as Olga Olsen in Street Scene and the company's production of Hänsel und Gretel; Palm Beach Opera as Isabella in L'italiana in Algeri, and Toledo Opera as Gertrude in Roméo et Juliette. With Santa Fe Opera, she sang Glasa in Kátya Kabanová as well as Teresa in La sonnambula, in addition to scenes of Cornelia in Giulio Cesare and Leonora in La Favorita.
An accomplished oratorio soloist, Ms. Quintero has appeared frequently with Boston Baroque where her performances have included the title role in Vivaldi's Juditha Triumphans and soloist in Messiah. She has also sung Messiah with Charlotte and Alabama symphony orchestras and the National Philharmonic; Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 with Columbus Symphony; Haydn's Paukenmesse at Carnegie Hall; and a concert performance of Guillaume Tell with Opera Orchestra of New York.
Ms. Quintero is a 2006 winner of the Sara Tucker Study Grant from the Richard Tucker Music Foundation as well as the second place winner of the Licia Albanese-Puccini Foundation's International Vocal Competition. In 2005 she received both the George London Award and Sullivan Foundation Award and was a semi-finalist in Plácido Domingo's Operalia Competition in Madrid. She was a 2002 Grand National Finalist in the prestigious Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions and made her first appearance on the company's stage in the Grand Finals Concert under the direction of Maestro Julius Rudel.
Ann McMahon Quintero was graduated with honors and received her Bachelor of Music from Northwestern University, where her performances included Ravel's Shéhérazade and Bach's Magnificat and Mass in B Minor.
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