She/Her Marlen recently completed the Cafritz Young Artists program with Washington National Opera. Highlights there included The Magic Flute (Pamina), La traviata (Violetta), The Consul (Foreign Woman), and the world premiere of Sankaram’s Taking Up Serpents (Queer Kid). Next season she will debut with Virginia Opera in La bohème (Musetta). Recent orchestral debuts include the National Symphony Orchestra conducted by NSO music director Maestro Gianandrea Noseda and Kansas City Symphony for excerpts from Le nozze di Figaro (Susanna).
Mexican-Lebanese soprano Marlen Nahhas is currently a Cafritz Young Artist with Washington National Opera. Praised for her “impassioned soprano” (San Francisco Chronicle), upcoming engagements include singing Mimì in La bohème at Washington National Opera. Highlights of her time as a Cafritz Young Artist include Pamina in The Magic Flute, Violetta in La traviata (under the direction of Francesca Zambello), Flamingo in Jeanine Tesori’s The Lion, The Unicorn and Me, Queer Kid in the world premiere of Kamala Sankaram’s Taking Up Serpents, a Concert of Comedic Masterpieces under the baton of Maestro Joseph Colaneri, and Foreign Woman in The Consul.
She/Her Marlen recently completed the Cafritz Young Artists program with Washington National Opera. Highlights there included The Magic Flute (Pamina), La traviata (Violetta), The Consul (Foreign Woman), and the world premiere of Sankaram’s Taking Up Serpents (Queer Kid). Next season she will debut with Virginia Opera in La bohème (Musetta). Recent orchestral debuts include the National Symphony Orchestra conducted by NSO music director Maestro Gianandrea Noseda and Kansas City Symphony for excerpts from Le nozze di Figaro (Susanna).
Mexican-Lebanese soprano Marlen Nahhas is currently a Cafritz Young Artist with Washington National Opera. Praised for her “impassioned soprano” (San Francisco Chronicle), upcoming engagements include singing Mimì in La bohème at Washington National Opera. Highlights of her time as a Cafritz Young Artist include Pamina in The Magic Flute, Violetta in La traviata (under the direction of Francesca Zambello), Flamingo in Jeanine Tesori’s The Lion, The Unicorn and Me, Queer Kid in the world premiere of Kamala Sankaram’s Taking Up Serpents, a Concert of Comedic Masterpieces under the baton of Maestro Joseph Colaneri, and Foreign Woman in The Consul.