Mezzo-Soprano, Francesca Lunghi has emerged as a promising talent in opera, concert, and recital repertoire, in addition to being a member of the prestigious Metropolitan Opera Extra Chorus.

Ms. Lunghi made her Carnegie Hall debut as the Mezzo-Soprano Soloist in Mozart’s Requiem for the USA-Japan Goodwill Mission Concert Benefit in 2012. Other highlights include Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony at Carnegie Hall, Mahler’s Lieder Eines fahrenden Gesellen with the Queens Symphony Orchestra. Mahler’s Kindertotenlieder, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, and a gala of Handel arias and duets with the New York Repertory Orchestra under the direction of David Leibowitz.

Concert engagements include Vivaldi’s Gloria, Mozart’s Requiem and Sparrow Mass, Schubert’s Magnificat, Handel’s Messiah and Judas Maccabeus. Other concert repertoire includes Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater, Brahms’ Alto Rhapsody, Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy, and a concert for the Chicago Cultural Center in a program of Kurt Weill and Charles Ives.

In recent seasons, Ms. Lunghi has performed with numerous regional opera companies including Sarasota Opera, Caramoor, Chicago Opera Theater, and Intermezzo Opera.

Ms. Lunghi’s operatic repertoire includes roles such as La Zia Principessa from Suor Angelica, Giovanna from Rigoletto, Dame Quickly from Falstaff, Annina from La traviata, Suzy from La Rondine, Lady with a hat box/Foreign Singer from Postcard from Morocco, The Sorceress from Dido and Aeneas, Katisha from The Mikado, Ms. Todd from The Old Maid and the Thief, Smeraldina from The Love for Three Oranges, Mary from the Chicago debut of Ronald Perera’s The Yellow Wallpaper, and the Innkeeper from the NY premiere of Bruce Saylor’s My Kinsman Major Molineux.

Ms. Lunghi holds advanced degrees from the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College and the Chicago College of Performing Arts, as well she is the recipient of the Arleen Auger Memorial Scholarship, The Claire Bennett Moringiello Award, and the George and Violet Zatkin Opera Award. Ms. Lunghi is a student of esteemed tenor Frank Lopardo.