My Mission

I strive to live each day to the fullest, participating in and creating meaningful works of art and media that make people think, lift up their spirits, and impact the world in unexpected ways.

Biography

Abigail Wright is a lyric Mezzo Soprano whose excellent musicianship and dramatic skills are matched only by her captivatingly unique and desirable voice. She made her Carnegie Hall debut as Marghareta in The Song of Norway and appeared in both Carousel with Live from Lincoln Center and in several of the Metropolitan Opera's Live in HD series. In one of the highlights of her career thus far, she also collaborated with composer Mark Adamo to portray Meg in the Israeli premiere of his opera Little Women. Other roles include Herself in The Proposal, Zerlina in Don Giovanni, Dorabella in Così fan tutte, Nellie in South Pacific, Concepción in L’Heure Espagnole, Rosita in the puppet opera Don Cristóbal, Cheri in the film Wolfy's Journey, and the Mezzo Soprano in Conrad Susa's Transformations. Recently, she premiered the role of Roanne Taylor in Mary D. Watkins's and Clare Coss's groundbreaking opera Emmett Till as well as Christina Linde in Ray Luedeke’s A Doll’s House. Abigail is grateful beyond measure to be working with Ray Luedeke again this spring in the role of Bolette in his operatic adaptation of Ibsen's The Lady from the Sea.

A skilled oratorio soloist, Abigail Wright has sung with the American Symphony Orchestra, Opera Lafayette, the Garden State Philharmonic, and the New Amsterdam Symphony, to name a few. Making her West Coast debut, Ms. Wright performed Verdi's Requiem with the Mid-Columbia Symphony, in which she was hailed as "full in the low range and balanced throughout with no apparent limit at the top. She showed the intensity and drama the music demands and sings with sensitivity.” Abigail has also appeared with the Philharmonic of Southern New Jersey, with the Mineola Choral Society as the Mezzo Soprano soloist for Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 and the Mass in C, and with the Mid-Columbia Symphony for Prokofiev's Alexander Nevsky, Op. 78, for mezzo-soprano, chorus, and orchestra. She also had the pleasure of performing with composer J. J. Wright as the mezzo soprano soloist for his Vespers for the Immaculate Conception at the world-famous St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City.

Abigail Wright has performed and apprenticed with the Aspen Opera Theater and the International Vocal Arts Institute in Tel Aviv. She holds degrees from Westminster Choir College and the University of Maryland, where she was a member of the Maryland Opera Studio. She has also appeared in master classes with Chuck Hudson, Joan Dornemann, Edward Berkeley, Marilyn Horne, Lauren Flanigan, and Charles Rieker. Currently, Ms. Wright lives in the United States, where she continues to perform and broaden her lifelong passion for music and the performing arts.