Joyce Guyer, soprano

Soprano Joyce Guyer has been featured at the Metropolitan Opera over 16 seasons in more than 190 performances. She has appeared 10 times at Carnegie Hall and performed for five years in four Wagner operas at the Bayreuther Festspiele in Germany. Guyer has been heard on dozens of worldwide Texaco, NPR, and PBS opera broadcasts.

At New York’s Metropolitan Opera, her roles included Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro, Sophie in Der Rosenkavalier, Sophie in Werther, Woglinde in Das Rheingold and Götterdämmerung, Waldvogel in Siegfried, Pamina in Die Zauberflöte, Nanetta in Falstaff, and Anne Trulove in The Rake’s Progress.

Following a well-received Susanna in Figaro with the Pittsburgh Opera in 2000, she moved to the role of La Contessa at the Glimmerglass Opera Festival in 2001, to critical acclaim. Guyer appeared with the New Orleans Opera singing Gilda (Rigoletto) in 2003 and the four heroines in Les Contes d’Hoffmann in 2004. Her future engagements include Bach’s Christmas Oratorio in Carnegie Hall in December and Haydn’s Creation with the Akron Symphony in spring 2008.

Guyer has also appeared at the Washington National Opera, the Dallas Opera, New York City Opera, Pittsburgh Opera, Opèra de Nice, Opèra de Lyon, Teatro Massimo Bellini di Catania, Opera Grand Rapids, Knoxville Opera, Lyric Opera of Kansas City, and New Orleans Opera in roles that include Contessa Almaviva, Konstanze, Pamina, Marguerite, Mimi, Donna Anna, Zerlina, Eurydice, Gilda, and all four heroines in Les Contes d’Hoffman.

Her summer festival appearances include the Bayreuth Festival, Buxton Festival, Berkshire Festival, Central City Opera, Glimmerglass Opera (most recently as Angelica in Handel’s Orlando), Spoleto Festival, and the Opera Theatre of St. Louis.

Guyer’s notable concert appearances include the New York Philharmonic (Sir Colin Davis, conductor), Philadelphia Orchestra (Wolfgang Sawallisch, conductor), Mostly Mozart Festival at Lincoln Center (Gerard Schwarz, conductor), Orchestra of St. Luke’s (Julius Rudel, conductor), Southwest Florida Symphony in Ft. Myers (Paul Nadler, conductor), New Jersey Symphony (Zdenek Macal, conductor), Seattle Symphony (Gerard Schwarz, conductor), Florida Philharmonic (James Judd, conductor), St. Cecilia Chorus at Carnegie Hall (David Randolph, conductor), Collegiate Chorale (Robert Bass, conductor), Musica Sacra (Richard Westenberg, conductor), and with the US Naval Academy Chorus and Orchestra (John Barry Talley, conductor).

She has also appeared with James Levine and Ken Noda in a performance of the Brahms Liebeslieder and Neue Liebeslieder under the auspices of the Met Chamber Ensemble at the Weill Recital Hall in New York City.

Guyer can be heard on the Deutsche Grammophon recordings of Le Nozze di Figaro, Parsifal, and Idomeneo (all conducted by James Levine), on the Newport Classic recording of The Devil & Daniel Webster, on CDs of John Philip Sousa’s Theatre & Parlor Songs by Premier Recordings, and on Arabesque, in collaboration with noted French horn artist David Jolley, music of the French Romantic composers. Her new CD of French and English songs with harpist Anita Briggs will be released soon on an independent label.

Guyer was formerly visiting assistant professor of voice at the Florida State University College of Music. She has maintained a private voice studio since 2001, and has taught master classes in Idaho, Missouri, Florida, and Louisiana.

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