Tracy Van Fleet is pleased to be returning to sing with the Pasadena Symphony. Her rich and warm mezzo soprano has earned critical acclaim singing from Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles to the Symphonieorchester Lüneburg in Germany. As a soloist, she has performed with the Los Angeles Master Chorale, Lüneburg Symphony, Pasadena Symphony, Orquesta Filarmónica de Boca del Río, Naples Philharmonic, Los Angeles Bach Festival, San Diego Chamber Orchestra, Colorado Philharmonic, USC Symphony and Chorus, and others. She has had many appearances with the Los Angeles Music Center Opera, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Pacific Symphony, Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, Opera Pacific, San Diego Opera and Opera Colorado. In 2017 she was the alto soloist for 6 different productions of Beethoven’s 9th Symphony in Germany, Mexico and the US. In 2016 she was the featured mezzo soloist on a tour of Italy singing the Mozart Requiem at many UNESCO sites. She has also toured Europe and the U.S. with the Los Angeles Philharmonic singing in the new oratorio by John Adams The Gospel According to the Other Mary. Ms. Van Fleet earned a Master and Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance from the University of Southern California, where she graduated cum laude.
Among various operatic roles, Ms. Van Fleet has sung Carmen in an adaptation of Bizet’s Carmen, both the Witch and Mother in Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel, Flora in Verdi’s La Traviata, Tisbe in Rossini’s Cenerentola, and Lola in Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana. She has sung Gilbert and Sullivan in theaters across the United States, including the roles of Ruth in Pirates of Penzance, Katisha in The Mikado, and Buttercup in HMS Pinafore. On the concert stage, she has earned high praise as the alto soloist for many performances of Bach’s B Minor Mass, St. John’s Passion, and Magnificat, Beethoven’s Mass in C and 9th Symphony, Mozart’s Requiem, Handel’s Messiah, Verdi’s Requiem, and many others.