MARY-ELLEN NESI

Greek mezzo-soprano, she has followed a significant international career in major theatres and festivals in Europe, USA and Asia. Her repertoire focuses on the pre-clas- sical, Baroque, classical and belcanto periods, having sung more than 40 leading roles in operas by Monteverdi, Handel, Vivaldi, Porpora, Gluck, Mozart, Rossini, Bellini, Donizetti, Massenet, Bizet, Verdi, etc. She has collaborated with distinguished con- ductors and has recorded for Sony, Decca, Archiv, Virgin, Deutsche Harmonia Mundi, MDG, Berlin Classics, Tafelmusik media, Dynamic, Naxos. Moreover, she has given many recitals and Baroque music concerts and has premiered works by contemporary Greek composers at home and abroad. For her recent solo album entitled Archetypon (MDG) on female portraits from ancient Greece, she received enthusiastic reviews from the international press and was nominated for “Singer of the year” by the major German Opus Klassik awards. She has performed to great acclaim numerous roles at the Greek National Opera.