Argentine mezzo-soprano Daniela Mack stands at the forefront of a new generation of opera singers, bringing a compelling blend of intensity, adventurousness, and effortless charisma to her performances. This season, Ms. Mack sings Rosina in Il barbiere di Siviglia at Houston Grand Opera and Opera Omaha and returns to Lyric Opera of Chicago in El último sueño de Frida y Diego as Frida. On the concert stage, Ms. Mack returns to San Francisco Opera in a program of Beethoven and Falla and appears in recital at Auburn University.
In the 2024-2025 season, Ms. Mack returned to both the Metropolitan Opera and Los Angeles Opera as Federico García Lorca in the new production of Ainadamar. She also appeared with the Lyric Opera of Chicago as Angela in Missy Mazzoli’s The Listeners, with San Francisco Opera as Idamante in Idomeneo, and made her house debut at the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma as Orsini in Lucrezia Borgia. Notable highlights include Ms. Mack’s Metropolitan Opera debut as the Kitchen Boy in Rusalka, Rosina in Il barbiere di Siviglia at the Royal Opera House, Rosmira in Partenope at Teatro Real, Romeo in Bellini’s I Capuleti e i Montecchi at Teatro de la Maestranza, Béatrice in Béatrice et Bénédict with the BBC Philharmonic, and Carnegie Hall in a performance of Serse with The English Concert.
Her recent engagements include performances with the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Santa Fe Opera, Washington National Opera, Seattle Opera, Minnesota Opera, Boston Lyric Opera, Lyric Opera of Kansas City, English National Opera, Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Ópera de Oviedo, Opéra National de Bordeaux, and the Verbier Festival. Her extensive repertoire includes the title role in Carmen, Charlotte in Werther, Béatrice in Béatrice et Bénédict, Romeo in I Capuleti e i Montecchi, Rosina in Il barbiere di Siviglia, Isabella in L’italiana in Algeri, Angelina in La Cenerentola, Bradamante in Alcina, Juno in Semele, Dardano in Amadigi di Gaula, Rosmira in Partenope, Sesto in Giulio Cesare, Idamante in Idomeneo, and Dorabella in Così fan tutte. She has created roles in several world premieres, including the title role in Elizabeth Cree by Kevin Puts and Mark Campbell at Opera Philadelphia; Jacqueline Kennedy in JFK by David T. Little and Royce Vavrek at Fort Worth Opera and subsequently at Opéra de Montréal; and most recently, the title role in El último sueño de Frida y Diego at San Francisco Opera.
On the concert stage, Ms. Mack regularly performs concerts and recitals including appearances with the New York Philharmonic, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and the Los Angeles Philharmonic. She has also performed with the National Symphony Orchestra, Festival Orchestra of Lincoln Center, and the Cincinnati Symphony at the Cincinnati May Festival. Internationally, she has appeared with the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Sydney Symphony, Hong Kong Philharmonic, and the Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk. Her concert repertoire includes Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 and Missa solemnis, Handel’s Messiah, Mozart’s Requiem, Ravel’s Shéhérazade, L’heure espagnole, and L’enfant et les sortilèges, Falla’s The Three- Cornered Hat and La vida breve, Rossini’s Giovanna d’Arco, Vivaldi’s Juditha triumphans, and Canteloube’s Chants d’Auvergne. Born in Buenos Aires, Ms. Mack is an alumna of the Adler Fellowship program at San Francisco Opera, studied at Louisiana State University, and was a finalist in the 2013 BBC Cardiff Singer of the World competition.