MARJORIE OWENS
Soprano Marjorie Owens, recently a member of the Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center at Lyric Opera of Chicago, received her bachelor of music from Baylor University. She was later accepted into the Houston Grand Opera Young Artist Studio where she studied for four seasons. Owens most recently performed as Countess Almaviva in HGO’s student matinees of Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro. She has also been seen on the mainstage in La traviata, Jenufa, Lucia di Lammermoor, Il trovatore, and Mark Adamo’s Lysistrata.
Recent awards include First Place in the Fort Worth Marguerite McCammon Competition, Second Place in the 35th Annual Palm Beach Opera Vocal Competition Advanced Division, First Place and the Audience Choice award in the Dallas Opera Guild Career Development Grant for Singers Competition, and Second Place in the Eleanor McCollum Competition for Young Singers. Most recently, Owens was a Grand Finals winner of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. She also attended the Aspen Opera Theater Center in the summer of 2003, where she sang scenes from Tosca with David Zinman, and again in 2004, where she performed in The Turn of the Screw and Viktor Ullmann’s Sechs Lieder with James Conlon and the Aspen Chamber Orchestra.
Owens recently made her Lyric Opera debut as the Greek Woman in Iphigénie en Tauride.
