Mezzo soprano Margaret O’Connell (Maggie) enjoys a versatile career in opera, contemporary classical music, musical comedy, oratorio, and recording.

In 2024, Berlin audiences saw Margaret’s role debut as Klytämnestra in Elektra with Dramatic Voices Program Berlin, conducted by Deutsche Oper Berlin’s Elda Laro.  She also appeared as Fricka in their production of Das Rheingold.

She portrayed a “fiercely committed” (ZEALnyc) Older Alyce in an acclaimed, sold-out production of Tom Cipullo’s Glory Denied with New York OperaFest.  She made her Carnegie Hall debut under the baton of Leon Botstein and the American Symphony Orchestra in Strauss’s Feuersnot.

Other favorite roles performed include the title role in Carmen, Olga in Eugene Onegin, Dulcinée in Don Quichotte, Nicklausse in Les contes d’Hoffmann, Adalgisa in Norma, Florence in Albert Herring, and the eponymous Dido and Aeneas.