Rachel
Barg
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Rachel Barg
Mrs. Ott
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Bille Bruley
Sam Polk
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Dylan Morrongiello
Little Bat/Elder Hayes (cover)
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Nicholas Brownlee
Olin Blitch
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William Guanbo Su
Blitch
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Rachel Barg
Tisbe
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Biography
Mezzo-soprano Rachel Barg (she/her) recently finished her artist diploma at William Jewell College, where she sang Charlotte (Werther), Grandma (The House Without a Christmas Tree), Marcellina (Le nozze di Figaro), and the title role in Elizabeth Cree.
In spring and summer 2023, Rachel will be a Gerdine Young Artist at Opera Theater of Saint Louis, singing Mrs. Ott in Susannah, and will return to Opera Maine as Tisbe in La cenerentola. Rachel covered Frau Mary in Der fliegende Holländer at Opera Maine, and was an Emerging Artist at the Opera for Peace Academy in 2022. She was a winner and encouragement award recipient in the Nebraska and St. Louis districts of the Laffont Competition in 2022 and 2023, respectively.
She was contracted to sing Madre Melchora in the East Coast premiere of Juana in July 2020 with Dell’Arte Opera Ensemble. In 2019, Rachel performed the role of Olga in concert performances of Eugene Onegin with the Eurasia Festival. She debuted the role of Arinyae in the world premiere of Theodore Christman’s A Metamorphosis in 2018.
Rachel covered and performed Dame Quickly in Falstaff with Martina Arroyo’s Prelude to Performance. While pursuing her master’s degree at the University of Michigan, Rachel performed the roles of Marcellina in Le nozze di Figaro under the baton of Martin Katz, and Hippolyta in Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream under the baton of Kathleen Kelly.
Other favorite roles performed are the Older Woman in Flight, Baba the Turk in The Rake’s Progress, Dritte Dame in Die Zauberflöte, and Old Gypsy Woman in Aleko.
Rachel currently resides in New York City with her dog, Lady Bird.
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