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Margaret Felice, Singer

Margaret Felice has been praised for her dynamic stage presence, artistic versatility, and “drop-dead gorgeous voice” (Boston Musical Intelligencer). Her repertoire ranges from classical opera to modern musical theater, from early music to the Great American Songbook, but all of her performances have one thing in common: a commitment to entertaining her audience with musical integrity and creative presentation.

Originally from South Windsor, Connecticut, Margaret now lives in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston. She holds degrees from Boston College and The Boston Conservatory and is an active choral conductor.

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Margaret Felice has been praised for her dynamic stage presence, artistic versatility, and “drop-dead gorgeous voice” (Boston Musical Intelligencer). Her repertoire ranges from classical opera to modern musical theater, from early music to the Great American Songbook, but all of her performances have one thing in common: a commitment to entertaining her audience with musical integrity and creative presentation.

In recent seasons Margaret performed with Opera del West in La Clemenza di Tito (Servilia cover), Firebird Festival Orchestra for a concert version of The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Congregation/Featured Ensemble), and The Company Theatre in The Secret Garden (Rose Lennox). She has also sung with Piccola Opera of Concord, NH in the role of Suor Genovieffa in Suor Angelica, with Longwood Opera as The Sandman in Hansel and Gretel, at the Assisi Performing Arts Festival as Pamina in The Magic Flute and The Countess in The Marriage of Figaro, and with Opera New Hampshire as Frasquita in Carmen and Musetta in a school tour of La Boheme. Other favorite roles include Abigail Williams in The Crucible and Micaëla in Carmen, both with Boston Opera Collaborative.

Margaret has performed with many of Boston's great theater companies. Notable theatrical appearances were with Reagle Music Theater (Alma Hix: The Music Man; Mme. Renaud: La Cage aux Folles; Sister Sophia, Sister Berthe, Mother Abbess cover: The Sound of Music), Greater Lowell Music Theatre (Marie, Fiorello!; Panacea, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum), Riverside Theatre Works (Grace Farrell: Annie; Stepmother: Into the Woods; Rose Lennox: The Secret Garden), Theatre Uncorked (Mistress: Passion), Curtain Call Theatre (Rona Lisa: The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee) and Woodland Theatre Company (Alice Bean, Titanic).

An artist with a particular interest in sacred music, Margaret has sung often as an oratorio soloist, including Mozart’s Sparrow Mass at Manhattan’s Church of the Holy Family, and the Vivaldi Gloria and Fauré Requiem with the Paul Madore Chorale Summer Sings in Salem, MA. She sang the soprano solos in Bach's Cantata 39 with Christ Church United Methodist in Wellesley, MA and the soprano solos in Elijah with The Paul Madore Chorale Summer Sings. Other credits include solo performances in Handel's The Messiah, Haydn’s Creation, Beethoven’s Mass in C, Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater, and Carmina Burana.

Margaret has made solo concert appearances with Bordentown Community Concerts, Boston College University Wind Ensemble, and Greater Lowell Music Theatre. She also sang for five seasons with Cappella Clausura, a chamber ensemble specializing in early music written by female composers. In thirteen seasons with the Tanglewood Festival Chorus, the official chorus of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Boston Pops, Margaret sang symphonic masterworks at Tanglewood, Carnegie Hall and Boston’s Symphony Hall. With the Pops she sang for Fourth of July, Red Sox opening day, the Democratic National Convention and Boston’s annual Holiday Tree Lighting.

In 2015 Margaret became Administrative Director (later Executive Director) of Boston Singers' Resource, a local advocacy group for classical singers. During her transformative six-year tenure she envisioned a new staff structure and hired a diverse staff, increased yearly fundraising five-fold, developed continuing education programming, oversaw a rebrand and website rebuild, responded to the pandemic with virtual programs and emergency relief grants, applied for and earned city and state grants, and collaborated with other arts service organizations on advocacy and programming.

Originally from South Windsor, Connecticut, Margaret now lives in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston. She is a full time doctoral student in Theology and Education at the Boston College School of Theology and Ministry. Sheholds degrees from Boston College and The Boston Conservatory and is an active choral conductor. Margaret publishes books and articles about spirituality and the arts that can be found, along with her performance résumé and upcoming engagements, at www.margaretfelice.com

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