Young American lyric coloratura soprano Shelley Marie Mihm is praised for her “wide-ranging expressiveness” and “effortless control” (Voix des Arts). This season Shelley Marie will be attending the prestigious Aspen Music Festival, debuting Musetta in Taconic Opera’s La Bohème, appearing with Opera America’s Emerging Artist Recital Series singing Libby Larsen’s Try Me Good King, and traveling to Paris to make her debut with Really Spicy Opera in Gretry’s Émilie . Since her recent residencies with Seagle Music Colony and Opera Saratoga as a young artist, Shelley Marie was named a Top 10 Finalist in Brava! Opera Theatre Vocal Competition in San Fransisco, performed in the New Works Opera Forum with Opera America and Opera Birmingham in Evan Mack’s new opera The Ghosts of Gatsby as Zelda Fitzgerald, appeared with Marble Collegiate Church as a soloist in its NBC telecast Christmas Service, recorded with the Netflix studio for its series The Queen’s Gambit, and was named a winner of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions North Carolina District. The 2018-2019 season included a residency with Seagle Music Colony of New York singing the leading roles of Zelda Fitzgerald in Evan Mack and Joshua McGuire’s The Ghosts of Gatsby workshop, Cleopatra in Handel’s Giulio Cesare, the Soldier in Zach Redler’s The Falling and the Rising, as well as performing in a touring outreach Cole Porter review show. On the oratorio stage Mihm debuted as the soprano soloist in Poulenc’s gorgeous work, Gloria with Saint Mary’s Episcopal Church of High Point, North Carolina.