“Brilliant” (The New York Times) Soprano Marielle Murphy, a native of Carmel, California, made her debut at the Metropolitan Opera for the 2023/24 season in the role of Oscar in David Alden’s production of Verdi’s Un Ballo in Maschera, under the baton of Carlo Rizzi. She returns to the Met in the 2024/25 season as a voice of the unborn in Strauss’ Die Frau ohne Schatten, led by Yannick Nézet-Séguin, and will workshop a new project in Belfast with the Northern Irish director, Kate Guelke.

She has performed on operatic and concert stages across the United States and Europe. Favorite and recent roles include Konstanze (The Abduction from the Seraglio, Mozart), Cungegonde (Candide, Bernstein), Zerbinetta (Ariadne auf Naxos, Strauss), Oscar (Un Ballo in Maschera, Verdi), Susanna (Le Nozze di Figaro, Mozart), and Gabriel/Eve (Die Schöpfung, Haydn), among many others.

Marielle made her European debut at the Salzburg Festival as La Charmeuse in Massenet’s Thaïs alongside Plàcido Domingo with the Munich Radio Orchestra. Various guesting and residency engagements followed in opera houses across the German-speaking region of Europe, such as Theater Aachen, Oper Leipzig, Opera Bern, Theater für Niedersachsen, and Theater Münster, where she was engaged as a soloist for four seasons.

She has won awards from such competitions as the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, the George London Foundation, the Licia Albanese - Puccini Foundation, New Jersey State Opera, Henry and Maria Holt Scholarship, and the Carmel Music Society. She has also performed in the final rounds of the Francisco Viñas Competition (Barcelona), the Belvedere Competition (South Africa), and the Concorso Angelo Loforese (Milan).

An alumna of the Eastman School of Music, Marielle was mentored closely by the late dramatic coloratura Rita Shane. She received additional training from the Aspen Music Festival and School, Bel Canto at Caramoor, and the Salzburg Festival. She is an avid yogi, classical guitar enthusiast, proud Pomeranian Mama, and botanical illustration hobbyist.