Molly Hill

Molly Jane Hill is an all-too-rare true dramatic mezzo-soprano. Her rich, round voice and voluptuous demeanor make her perfectly suited for the full Verdi and Wagner repertoire.

In the 2017/18 season, Ms. Hill is making her role debut of Ulrica in Un Ballo in Maschera with Livermore Valley Opera and is reprising Maddalena in Rigoletto with Charlottesville Opera. In 2016 she was an audience and critic favorite as Mrs. Lovett in the Glimmerglass Festival production of Sweeney Todd where she also sang the role of Susan Walcott in The Crucible. She returned to Virginia Opera to cover Anna 1 in Weill's Seven Deadly Sins.

In recent seasons, Molly Hill has appeared as Venus in Orpheus in the Underworld with Virginia Opera, Maddalena in Rigoletto with Livermore Valley Opera, and as Eunice Hubbell in A Streetcar Named Desire with Opera Santa Barbara. As an Apprentice Artist with Central City Opera, she performed Sister Lillianne in Dead Man Walking (while covering Mrs. DeRocher), Marcellina in Le nozze di Figaro, Flora in La Traviata, Frau Schmidt in The Sound of Music, and Housekeeper in Man of La Mancha. With Oklahoma Opera & Music Theater Company she delighted audiences as The Mother in The Consul and Prince Orlofsky in Die Fledermaus.

While pursuing her Master’s Degree at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Ms. Hill performed as Ottavia in L’Incoronazione di Poppea, Dinah in Trouble in Tahiti, La Principessa in Suor Angelica, the title role in Michael John LaChiusa’s Bernarda Alba, The Witch in Hansel and Gretel, Octavian in Der Rosenkavalier, and the title role in Carmen. On the concert stage she has performed the mezzo solos in Beethoven’s 9th Symphony with the Colburn Orchestra and, returning as a guest artist, sang Wagner’s Wessendonck Lieder with the San Francisco Conservatory of Music Orchestra.

Molly Hill has won awards from the Western Region and the Los Angeles Region Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, the Denver Lyric Opera Guild, and the Pasadena Opera Guild. She is the 2015 winner of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music Concerto Competition, the 2014 First Place winner of the East Bay Opera League Competition, and recipient of the Dorsey Family Award at Central City Opera.