Melissa Kornacki Mezzo-Soprano

Melissa Kornacki, Mezzo-Soprano, is a native of the Washington DC area and has performed widely across the northeast united states and abroad. While being a lover of both opera and oratorio, she has been a soloist in Vivald's Gloria, Saint-Saen's Christmas Oratorio, Haydn's Lord Nelson Mass, Beethoven's Mass in C Major, Bach's Magnificat, Durufle's Requiem, Beethoven's Ninth Symphony both at Avery Fischer Hall, New York and the Grand Auditorium in Ocean Grove, New Jersey and had been recorded by AMP during a live performance of Handel's Messiah. She has been a soloist at the National Shrine of the Basilica of the Immaculate Conception since 2006 and had been a frequent guest artist for the Washington Choral Ensemble under the direction of the late William D. Usher II. Around Washington she has performed with the Bethesda Summer Opera Festival and Opera Belcantanti. In 2007 Ms. Kornacki made her international debut in the United Arab Emirates performing the role of Dinah in Trouble in Tahiti at the Mall of the Emirates in Dubai, and just recently she starred as the title role in Iolanthe at the 16th Annual International Gilbert & Sullivan Festival in Buxton, England. She has collaborated with well known artists like Jane Tavernier, Donna Zapola-Connelly, Chia Patino, Ioannis Potamousis, David Williams, Katerina Souvorova, Barbara Deaver, Faith Esham, Sharon Christman, Gabriel Gordon, and composer Randall Svane. Her opera credits include Gertrude (Romeo et Juliet), Third Lady (The Magic Flute), Mrs. Page (The Merry Wives of Windsor), Maddalena (Rigoletto), Hansel (Hansel and Gretel), Dorabella (Cosi Fan Tutte), Augusta (The Ballad of Baby Doe), Charlotte (Werther), Dido (Dido and Aeneas), Dinah (Trouble in Tahiti), Anita (West Side Story), La Ciesca (Gianni Schichi), and the title roles in Giulio Cesare and Carmen.