Hope Nelson

Hope Nelson is a mezzo-soprano from Pacifica, California. She is currently a candidate for the Artist Diploma in Opera Studies at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. She was recently engaged at San José Opera covering the legendary mezzo-soprano Frederica von Stade as she sang the role of herself in a workshop of Shinji Eshima and Tony Asaro’s Zheng, based on the life of mezzo-soprano Zheng Cao. In April 2024, she looks forward to returning to a favorite role, the Fox in Janáček’s The Cunning Little Vixen, in her company debut with Pocket Opera. In June 2023 she made her debut with Long Beach Opera in the final program of their season, THE RECITAL. She sang Schubert’s Die Schöne Müllerin in a new production and staging imagined and co-directed by filmmaker Tom C. Jones and multidis