Recognized for her formidable display of vocal power and dramatic assurance, mezzo-soprano Deborah Nansteel recently completed the Washington National Opera Domingo-Cafritz Young Artist Program, where she performed Tisbe in La Cenerentola, Third Lady in Die Zauberflöte, as well as The Cat in Tony Award-winning composer Jeanine Tesori’s The Lion, the Unicorn, and Me.

In the 16-17 season, Ms. Nansteel has and will perform the roles of Flosshilde in Das Rheingold with North Carolina Opera, Suzuki in Madama Butterfly with Arizona Opera, La Duegne in Cyrano with Michigan Opera Theatre, Sister Helen Prejean in Dead Man Walking with Opera on the Avalon and return to Washington National Opera as Marquise of Birkenfield in La fille du régiment and for their production of Champion. She will also take part in Mainly Mozart Festival’s production of Jake Heggie’s The Work at Hand and will sing a solo in Mozart’s Coronation Mass at Carnegie Hall.

Ms. Nansteel is a graduate of the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM) where she earned an Artist Diploma in Opera and a Master of Music in Voice.