Daryl Freedman

American mezzo-soprano Daryl Freedman made her house and role debut as Fricka (Das Rheingold) with Virginia Opera in September 2021. Two months later she made her house debut at the Atlanta Opera in the title role of Giulio Cesare. She has also been heard as the Third Lady (Die Zauberflöte) at the Metropolitan Opera in New York and as the Powerful Woman and Adelaide Johnson in the world premiere of Kamala Sankaram’s Rise at the Washington National Opera.

Other engagements have included Schwertleite (Die Walküre) at the Met and at the Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse, Dryad (Ariadne auf Naxos) with the Cleveland Orchestra, Amneris (Aida) for Opera Idaho and Mary (Der fliegende Holländer), Alisa (Lucia di Lammermoor) and Amelfa in Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Golden Cockerel for Sarasota Opera.

As a concert artist Daryl Freedman has been heard in Mahler’s Second Symphony with the Erie Philharmonic Orchestra and in Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with the Fairfax Symphony Orchestra. Other concert appearances have included Bernstein’s Songfest with the National Symphony Orchestra, performances of Verdi’s Requiem with both the Quad City and the Fairfax Symphony Orchestras and Handel’s Messiah with the Santa Fe Symphony and the Boise Philharmonic Orchestra. Other recent appearances have included the contralto soloist in Das Lied von der Erde with the Fargo-Moorhead Symphony Orchestra and Azucena (Il trovatore) with Opera San José.

Daryl Freedman is a graduate of the Cafritz Young Artist Program at the Washington National Opera, where she was heard as Eboli (Don Carlo), Gertrude (Hänsel und Gretel), Lili’uokalani in Luna Pearl Woolf’s Better Gods, Roßweiße (Die Walküre), Marcellina (Le nozze di Figaro) and Jade Boucher (Dead Man Walking).

Other engagements include Zotico in Cavalli’s Eliogabalo for Gotham Chamber Opera, Mozart’s Requiem with the Florida Orchestra, Ascalax in Telemann’s Orpheus at the New York City Opera and Federica (Luisa Miller) and the Third Lady for the Chautauqua Opera.