Stephanie Woodling
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Lyric mezzo-soprano Stephanie Woodling has recently concluded a season with Deutsche Oper am Rhein, during which she performed the roles of Dorabella, Wellgunde (Das Rheingold), Tessa (The Gondoliers), and Antonia (Tiefland). She debuted with the company in 2004 as Die zweite Magd in their new production of Elektra. She returns in 2006-07 as Hänsel and as Die zweite Dame in Die Zauberflöte. Other recent operatic debuts include Lyric Opera of Kansas City as Stephano in Romeo and Juliette, OK Mozart Festival as Ciesca in Gianni Schicchi, and Mrs. Segstrom in Los Angeles Opera’s production of A Little Night Music. Last season she sang the role of Flora with both Opera Pacific and Caramoor.
With New York City Opera, Woodling has performed in A Little Night Music, Rigoletto, and La Traviata. Previously a young artist with Opera Pacific, she appeared in a number of roles, most notably Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni, which critics described as providing "an intellectual burst of animation into the proceedings, giving a charming, brash, and thorough reading." Other Opera Pacific credits include Meg in Little Women, Mercedes in Carmen, Jade Boucher in Dead Man Walking, and Die zweite Dame in The Magic Flute.
As a young artist with Santa Fe Opera for two seasons, she made her debut on their stage in the role of Die zweite Dienerin in Richard Strauss's Die Ägyptische Helena. She has performed Jenny Hildebrand in Kurt Weill's Street Scene at Chautauqua Opera and Suzy in La Rondine at Caramoor.
A native of Allentown, Pennsylvania, Woodling holds both a Bachelor's and a Master's Degree in Music from the Manhattan School of Music, where she was a recipient of the President's Award. There she made her orchestral debut singing Gustav Mahler's Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen, and has since debuted with the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center, Pacific Symphony Orchestra, the Los Angeles Master Chorale, and the Allentown Symphony Orchestra in Felix Mendelssohn’s Midsummer Night’s Dream. She will return to Allentown Symphony Orchestra and make her Norwalk Symphony debut singing Solveig in Edvard Grieg’s incidental music for Peer Gynt. She is featured on Sony’s live recording of Final Fantasy: More Friends, a concert of Nobuo Uematsu’s famous Final Fantasy compositions for the video game series developed by Square Enix, formerly Square Co., Ltd..
