bio

Born in Los Angeles and raised in Honolulu, Mary Rose Go is a classically trained coloratura soprano and actress. Recent opera credits include Deer in The Way the Sky Looks (NYU MFA Composition), Tsering in Ga Sho (American Opera Project), Dew Fairy in Hansel and Gretel (Opera on Tap’s Playground Opera). Recent theater credits include Cynthia/Elizabeth in 2nd Murderer (SoHo Shakespeare Company Table Read), Moifa/Lord Twede/Chaos Titan Behemoth in The Fantastical Fellowship: Final Quest for the Crisis Crystal XXVII (Frigid NYC) and Ninny/Hagen in Der Ring Gott Farblonjet (Columbia University’s MFA Directing Thesis).

Ms. Go has participated in a Hamilton Project Residency with Barn Arts Collective, OperaWorks, Bay Area Summer Opera Training Institute at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and the Hawai’i Performing Arts Festival. Equally comfortable in solo concert, Ms. Go has given numerous solo and joint recitals with Civic Morning Musicals and Cantanti Project singing difficult cycles such as Bernstein’s La Bonne Cuisine, Ravel’s Histoires Naturelles and Strauss’s Brentano lieder. She also debuted a jazz arrangement of Walter Loving’s “Beloved Philippines” at Cave Canem with Guggenheim Fellow Patrick Rosal. Other engagements include solo and collaborative public performances with Tuesday Night Project, Lompoc Valley Orchestra, and the Cantanti Project. Ms. Go has been recognized by the Art Song Preservation Society, the National Association of Teachers for Singing – Central New York, the Performing Arts Scholarship Foundation of Santa Barbara, and the Bay Area Summer Opera Theatre Institute. She studies clown and acting with Christopher Bayes, Gabriel Levey and Budi Miller. She studies voice with Judith Natalucci and Reid Bruton.