Mary Evelyn Hangley

A 2023 Sullivan Foundation Career Grant recipient, Soprano Mary Evelyn Hangley is a graduate of San Francisco Opera’s prestigious Adler Fellowship, where she covered numerous leading roles, including the title role of Rusalka, Contessa Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro, as well as Micaëla in Carmen. She made her San Francisco Opera debut as the Mother in Hansel and Gretel, which she was praised for "...[showing] confidence and vocal security in her unexpected San Francisco Opera debut, which proceeded flawlessly.” In 2023, Mary Evelyn saw a triumphant debut as A Woman in Schoenberg’s masterpiece Erwartung with West Edge Opera, for which The San Francisco Chronicle praised her “incendiary brilliance” and “[her] singing, moreover — bright, luxuriant and fearlessly on point — was a marvel.” Ca