bio

Born in Los Angeles and raised in Honolulu, Mary Rose Go is a classically trained coloratura soprano and actress. Recent credits include Ninny/Hagen in Der Ring Gott Farblonjet with Columbia University’s MFA Directing Thesis Program, Dew Fairy in Hansel and Gretel with Opera on Tap’s Playground Opera. Other theater credits include Columbina/Rapunzel in RagTag Theater’s Rapunzel, Cindy in an virtual performance of Cindy the Dreamer (Or No Small Potatoes) with Hudson Stage Company, and Hope in a staged reading of Inside Siberia (Root Beer Occasion Theatre). Other opera roles include Queen of the Night (Die Zauberflöte), 17th century diva La Rochois in La Maupin with Fresh Fruit Festival, Amor (L’incoronazione di Poppea), Despina (Cosi fan tutte), Nella (Gianni Schicchi), Suor Genovieffa (Suor Angelica), Rosina (The Barber of Seville).

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.