Marnie Breckenridge

The American soprano, Marnie Breckenridge, achieved her baccalaureate at Pacific Union College and her M. A. at the San Francisco Conservatoire of Music. In 2001, she continued her studies within a programme for up-and-coming singers in Santa Fe and at the Israeli Institute of Vocal Arts in Tel Aviv. She earned critical acclaim with her musical and dramatic skills already at the start of her singing career. In the 1999/2000 season, she first performed as Baby Doll in North Bay Opera, she sang Musetta (La Bohème) in Nevada Opera, and Elisetta in Il Matrimonio Segreto by Cimaros at the Israel Vocal Arts Institute in Tel Aviv. In 2002, she performed the part of Adina (The Elixir of Love) at Intermountain Opera in Montana, and made her debut in Latin America as Auretta in L’Oca del Cairo by Mozart at the Brazilian Opera Society in Sao Paulo. The list of her other successful appearances includes: Yum Yum (Arizona), Papagena and Inez (San Francisco), Lucia di Lammermoor (West Bay), Zerlina (North Bay). Beside opera, she also gives concerts – G. F. Händel (Messiah), C. Orff (Carmina Burana), J. S. Bach (Magnificat, St. Matthew’s Passion), J. Haydn (The Creation), Mozart (Requiem). She has given recitals in California, Norway, Sweden, United Kingdom, and Italy.

Her love to music by contemporary composers has inspired her to cooperate with some of them. Over the past two years, she appeared as the main soloist at the San Francisco Song Festival. In this season, she performed in the title role of the opera Chrysalis composed for her by Clark Suprynowicz. Miss Breckenridge has been awarded a number of significant prizes – she was in the district finals of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, the winner of the IIE International Challenge Prize, was a finalist in the Loren L. Zachary National Grand Competition, in the district finals of the Mac Allister Awards and the winner of the Mu Phi Epsilon Award.