Mezzo-soprano Megan Latham is equally at home in opera, oratorio, or recital, with a voice that has been described as “clear and honey colored” (Opera Canada). She has worked with distinguished conductors including Harry Bicket, Will Crutchfield, Richard Bradshaw, Miguel Harth-Bedoya, David Agler, Jeanne Lamon, Johannes Debus, and Agnes Grossman. Nicknamed “Canada’s Digital Opera Queen” by Opera Canada, Megan’s busy 2020/2021 season included premiering various digital works. This included her acclaimed double-bill of Hoiby’s Bon Appetit! and The Italian Lesson, as well as POV’s upcoming production of Raum’s The Garden of Alice. Ms. Latham’s 2021/2022 season sees her appearing as Zita in the Canadian Opera Company’s digital production of Gianni Schicchi, performing with Astrolabe Musik Theatre’s Your Breath, My Breath: Dialogue for a Mother and Daughter, and a return to Pacific Opera Victoria to reprise her double-bill for a live audience. The British Columbia native’s rewarding 2019/2020 began with a multi-role appearance in Puccini’s Il Trittico at Pacific Opera Victoria. Performances in Victoria Symphony’s Beethoven Nine and Pacific Opera Victoria’s Die Walküre have been postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic.  Her 2018/19 season included Gertrude in Roméo et Juliette for Calgary Opera, Flora in La traviata for Pacific Opera Victoria, and a return to Edmonton Opera for her role debut as Ragonde in Le comte Ory. During the 2017/2018 season, Megan appeared as Giovanna in Rigoletto and the Fortune Teller in Arabella for the Canadian Opera Company, returned to Vancouver Opera to sing Filippyevna in Eugene Onegin, made her company debut with Opéra de Québec as Second Lady in Die Zauberflöte, and joined the Victoria Symphony for Verdi’s Requiem. Further credits include Emilia in Otello for Vancouver Opera and the Third Lady in Die Zauberflöte for Pacific Opera Victoria, the World Premieres of Stickboy and Dark Sisters for the Vancouver Opera, Genevieve in Pelléas et Mélisande for Against the Grain Theatre, Alisa in Lucia di Lammermoor for Edmonton Opera and Verdi’s Requiem for the Ottawa Choral Society. A regular with the Canadian Opera Company, Ms. Latham’s assignments have included Voice of the Mother in Les Contes d’Hoffmann, Zita in Gianni Schicchi, and Mère Jeanne in Dialogues des carmélites, Rossweisse in Die Walküre, Marcellina in Le nozze di Figaro, Isaura in Rossini’s Tancredi, Florence Pike in the Ensemble Studio production of Albert Herring and Waltraute and Second Norn in Götterdämmerung (cover). Further career highlights include the Rhombus Media production of Alexina Louie’s Politics Is Cruel: An Opera, Verdi’s Requiem for Regina Symphony, Secretary to Chairman Mao in COC’s Nixon in China, Eduige in Rodelinda, the role of Mrs. Grose in Turn of the Screw with Against the Grain Theatre, and Mistress Quickly in Falstaff for Pacific Opera Victoria. Among Ms. Latham‘s concert repertoire are such works as Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, Handel’s Messiah and Dixit Dominus, Rossini’s Petite Misse Solennelle, Haydn’s Nelsonmesse, Mozart’s Krönungsmesse and Vivaldi’s Gloria and Beatus Vir. She appeared as Sister Sophia in the The Sound of Music at the Princess of Wales Theatre in Toronto, and in Bon Appetit with the Kitchener Waterloo Symphony. She holds a Master of Opera degree from the University of Toronto and Bachelor of Music in Opera from the University of British Columbia.