:: Megan Berti ::
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mezzo-soprano
Press: La Cenerentola
"The mezzo-soprano Megan Berti offered a completely perfect Angelina/Cinderella, both vocally and dramatically, and her transition from a maid to the beautiful, dazzling young woman who again captivated Don Ramiro in the palace...was simply shocking...” -Gaspar, El Lugareño
"As the heroine Megan Berti exuded sympathy at her first appearance clad in rags and alone with a mop in the corner of Don Magnifico’s crumbling mansion. When she came to the ball, she was every inch a queen and she commanded the stage at her final triumph. Berti’s light mezzo sparkled in the concluding showpiece “Non più mesta,” her accurate and well-placed trills fully earning the crown placed on her head. Her plea to Don Magnifico to let her come to the ball was replete with pathos, buttressed by a warm and plush lower register." -South Florida Classical Review
“Mezzosoprano Megan Berti in the titular roll of Angelina showed signs of agility and control, especially in the ornamented coloraturas of the final aria." -El Nuevo Herald
"...what's a Cenerentola without a Cinderella? A revelation two seasons ago at OH as a feisty Hänsel in Humperdinck's Wagnerian Hänsel and Gretel, who knew Megan Berti could conquer – and triumph – in the dazzling fireworks of Rossini? She exudes that fairy dust I mentioned earlier; she glistens with it, tosses it in the air and envelops us. She holds us spellbound with flawless technique, perfect diction, absolute pitch and fearless attack. Even in her drab scullery uniform, she's an eyeful. Wearing haute couture at the ball, she's a knockout. What a diva! And I mean that in all sincerity. She knocks this role out of the park. After she meets the prince in disguise, she explodes in fiery roulades and filigree, each one more precise, each more ornamented. Her heart's aflame, and she sounds it, happy in love, ecstatic in joy. So are we, pulled warmly into her vocal embrace. This is a defining performance." -Houston Press
"Opera in the Heights tackled comic Rossini with an energetic and well-sung Lambert Hall staging of La Cenerentola. Megan Berti was sympathetic in the title role, and her warm mezzo met the coloratura demands nimbly..." -Opera
"This is one of the operas that goes in and out of fashion because no one can handle singing them...Megan Berti is taking on the challenge - just the singer for the job.... Expect to see her on A-company stages." -Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
Press: Hänsel und Gretel
"...if there's anyone who adds effulgent orchestration it's Berti, whose showstopping Witch is one of the wonders of the world." -Houston Press
"As her errant brother, mezzo-soprano Megan Berti is pithy and pouty, her voice offering hefty tones that feel like caramel on the ears. -Houstonia
Press: Oratorio
"Yet another pillar of Friday’s performance was mezzo-soprano Megan Berti, whose agile voice and buttery colors balanced the strings in her solos. She had the clarity and heft of Handel’s passionate Dido, combined with a svelte touch of German Lieder." -repeat performances
"The alto soloist, Megan Berti, who showed herself be a little closer to the angels all evening, extended the plea for mercy to over 25 notes." -San Francisco Classical Voice