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Greta Feeney is an American opera singer and recitalist praised by audiences and critics alike for her uniquely beautiful vocal timbre, impeccable musicianship, and compelling stage presence. Ms. Feeney made her international concert debut at the age of 21 with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra (Gabriel and Eve in Haydn’s Creation), and her professional operatic debut at the age of 24 with the San Francisco Opera (Jano in Jenůfa). As a young artist with The Juilliard Opera Center,  Ms. Feeney was featured as Tytania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Constance in Dialogues of the Carmelites. Of the latter, New York Times critic Ann Midget noted Ms. Feeney's "artless sweetness of tone" and "top notes like a golden bell." On the competition circuit, Ms. Feeney took first place in the New York district and was a semi-finalist in the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, with additional awards from the Licia-Albanese Puccini Foundation, George London Foundation, and Koussevitsky Foundation.

As a young professional, Ms. Feeney participated for two seasons in the San Francisco Opera’s Merola young artist training program, sang Adele in the national tour of Die Fledermaus with the Western Opera Theatre, and was subsequently chosen for the prestigious Adler Fellowship, serving as artist-in-residence. Ms. Feeney’s career with the San Francisco Opera includes more than 20 opera productions, with featured roles such as Gretel in Hansel and Gretel, Marzelline in Fidelio, Despina in Cosi fan Tutte, Amanda in Le Grande Macabre, and the creation of the role of Marguerite in the world-premiere of Earthrise by Pulitzer Prize winning composer Louis Spratlan. Additional opera credits include two seasons at The Spoleto Festival, USA (Diana in Iphegenie en Tauride and Papagena in Die Zauberflöte) and six productions with the Ohio Light Opera (including Franzi in Wienerblut and Mascha in Der Tapfere Soldat, recorded on the Newport Classics label).

Ms. Feeney’s critically-acclaimed professional recital debut, Misunderstood Women: Matriarchs, Martyrs, and Mistresses of Metaphor, was for the San Francisco Opera’s Schwabacher series. An avid proponent of new music, she commissioned two world-premiere song cycles, Pashtun Songs by Bruce Rockwell, featuring anonymous love poems by Afghan women, and Miriam by David Daniel Feinsmith, set to verses from The Book of Exodus, a critically acclaimed performance noted for "considerable tonal heft" and "dramatic precision" (San Francisco Chronicle). Other recital engagements include 405 Schrader (San Francisco), International Street Cannibals (New York), Musica Reginae (New York), Nantucket Musical Arts Society, Nantucket Arts Council Downtown Celebrity Series, Nantucket Baroque Festival, The St. Croix Landmark Society, the Concord Conservatory of Music, the Nantucket Atheneum, and the Intermezzo Series at Spoleto Festival, USA, a performance praised for being "as good as it gets" by The Charleston Courier.

A baroque specialist, Ms. Feeney has performed as a soloist in some of the world's most prestigious concert halls, including Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Merkin Concert Hall, and the Herbst Theater in chamber music engagements with the St. Luke’s Chamber Ensemble (U.S. premiere of coloratura mezzo-soprano and contraltino arias by Mysliveček and Zelenka), the New Century Chamber Ensemble (Purcell’s The Fairy Queen), the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra (Bach Magnificat and BWV 110), Eliogabalo in Cavalli’s Eliogabalo with Stony Brook Opera, and Agrippina in Handel’s Agrippina with The Mannes Camerata. Ms. Feeney is currently on the soloist roster of Boston Baroque and The Rossini Club, Nantucket's premiere chamber music festival, and is an advisor for the Nantucket Arts Council and the Cambridge Chamber Ensemble.

An active contributor to charitable causes, Ms. Feeney has been featured as a guest vocalist at numerous events at The Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate, The Newport Opera House, The Sarasota Film Festival, and has regularly opened for The Boston Pops at the Nantucket Cottage Hospital's major annual fundraising event, appearing virtually alongside Joshua Bell and Jimmy Buffett during the pandemic in the Musicians For Mount Sinai online fundraiser, and more recently with Ukrainian international tenor Alexei Kuznietsov for Nantucket Cares in support of war relief efforts in the Ukraine. In addition to her charitable work, as Director of Music Ministries at St. Mary Our Lady of the Isle, Ms. Feeney has twice prepared and performed music for mass for the sitting President of the United States.

Greta Feeney, Soprano sings Brahms' Requiem
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