Keegan, Shannon
No. 23
Voice type: Mezzo-soprano
Country: United States of America
Date of birth: 26 February, 1997
The Hungarian–American mezzo-soprano was the member of the Staatsoper Stuttgart Opernstudio for the 2022/23 and 2023/24 seasons. In the summer of 2024, she completed her time as an Apprentice at the Santa Fe Opera. Coming up, she will make her Glyndebourne Festival debut in Parsifal, and will cover Rosina in Il barbiere di Siviglia. In concert, she made her debut with the Berlin Philharmonic under the baton of Kirill Petrenko in Mendelssohn’s Elias. She also sang in Die Frau ohne Schatten at the Baden-Baden Festspielhaus. She has won top honors at the Ottavio Ziino International Opera Competition, The Jensen Foundation, Rochester Oratorio Society, Opera Ithaca, and Gerda Lissner Foundation, among others. She participated in Carnegie Hall at the SongStudio in 2023, and will debut in Schubert's Schwanengesang in the spring of 2025 at the Antwerp Lied Festival.
Competition Repertoire
Preliminary
Liszt: Die drei Zigeuner
R. Strauss: Wie du warst! Wie du bist! – Octavian’s aria from Der Rosenkavalier
Mozart: Deh, per questo instante solo – Sesto’s aria from La clemenza di Tito
Semi-final
R. Strauss: Sein wir wieder gut – the Composer’s aria from Ariadne auf Naxos
Purcell: Thy hand Bellinda… When I am laid in Earth – Didoʼs lament from the opera Dido and Aeneas
Final
Massenet: Werther... Werther… Je vous écris de ma petite chambre – Charlotte’s recitative and aria from Werther
Mozart: Parto, parto, ma tu, ben mio – Sesto’s aria from La clemenza di Tito
Tchaikovsky: Da, tchas nastal – Joan of Arc’s aria from The Maid of Orleans