Acclaimed mezzo-soprano Krysty Swann has been hailed for her beautiful and rich voice, as well as her captivating presence on stage. The Washington Post declared, “Krysty Swann has a voice, and she knows how to use it…[She] displayed an instrument of immense power, natural beauty of tone and luscious legato line.” 

Last season, Ms. Swann returned to the Lyric Opera of Chicago to sing Girlfriend 3 and cover the Mother in Blue. She also joined Oberlin Conservatory to sing Fatima in Omar and New Haven Symphony for The Ordering of Moses. She workshopped Dana Franklin in Kindred at the Apollo Theater, and she closed the season with a return to Opera Theatre of Saint Louis as Beulah in the world premiere of Ricky Ian Gordon, Lynn Nottage, and Ruby Aiyo Gerber’s This House. This season she joins Bard Music Festival as the Bird Seller in Martinů’s Julietta, American Symphony Orchestra for Cornelius’ Stabat Mater, Yale Camerata for Margaret Bonds' The Ballad of the Brown King, The Chorus of Westerly for Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius, Oakland Symphony for The Ordering of Moses, as well as the Metropolitan Opera for a workshop of The Mothers of Kherson. 

Ms. Swann opened the previous season as Jade Boucher in Dead Man Walking with The Metropolitan Opera, which was followed by the Mother in New Orleans Opera’s production of Blue. She continued the season with Cousin Blanche in Champion with the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Shönberg’s Gurre-Lieder with the American Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, Messiah with the Evansville Philharmonic, and Sanctuary Road with Princeton Pro Musica. 

In recent seasons, Ms. Swann returned to The Metropolitan Opera as Cousin Evelyn in Champion, and sang Rossweisse in Detroit Opera’s The Valkyries, The Ordering of Moses for Oberlin Conservatory, and Handel’s Messiah for Pacific Symphony. She débuted at The Metropolitan Opera as the Third Maid in Elektra and appeared in the revival of Philip Glass’ Akhnaten.