Melanie Henley Heyn

Roaring onto the operatic stage in recent seasons, Melanie made her Straussian and Wagnerian debuts as Salome & Brünnhilde, followed closely by a harrowing portrayal of Magda Sorel in Gian Carlo Menotti’s Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, The Consul. Singing a vast repertoire of music spanning the opera, concert and folk worlds, her 33 divas recording project combining classic Wagner, Verdi & Puccini roles with modern American opera heroines remains the #1 Most Funded Kickstarter for a Solo Classical Artist. A career-long focus on orchestral lieder has led to performances of Mahler’s Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen and Rückert-Lieder, Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire and Gurre-Lieder, Messiaen’s Poèmes pour Mi & Harawi, Berg’s 7 Frühe Lieder, and, most recently, Wagner’s Wesendonck-Lieder. She is