An Illustrious Career Spanning Decades
With a triumphant career spanning over a decade as a soloist at the Metropolitan Opera, Atlanta born mezzo-soprano Brenda Boozer is equally at home on the concert and recital stage as in the opera house. She has been internationally praised by critics such as The Houston Chronicle and Richmond Times-Dispatch as being “gorgeous to see and equally stunning to hear,” and possessing “a voice with range, depth, and fire to be one of the really great singers of our day.” The San Francisco Chronicle said of Brenda, “Singing with a commanding sense of beauty and joy, her vocal future would seem to be unlimited.”
Ms. Boozer has performed leading mezzo-soprano roles with many of the world’s most prestigious opera companies including the Paris Opera, Covent Garden, Lyric Opera of Chicago, San Francisco Opera, Frankfurt Opera, Netherlands Opera, Teatro de Santiago (Chile), Teatro Comunale in Florence, Italy, Houston Grand Opera, and Santa Fe Opera. She has sung with great conductors Carlo Maria Giulini, with whom she recorded Meg Page in the Grammy nominated Deutsche Grammophon recording of Verdi’s Falstaff, James Levine, Seiji Ozawa, Erich Leinsdorf, and Ricardo Chailly. Maestro Erich Leinsdorf prepared and coached her Count Octavian in Der Rosenkavalier for the Metropolitan Opera. The noted French baritone, Martial Singher, taught her the role of Carmen, which she has performed internationally.
A critically noted concert singer, she has appeared as soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, National Symphony, Saint Louis Symphony, and has participated in numerous festivals including Edinburgh, Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart, Spoleto Italy and U.S.A., Wolf Trap, Carmel Bach, Santa Fe, and the Hollywood Bowl.