Praised for her “flexible, very warm, and crystalline” instrument, mezzo-soprano ANN FOGLER is an accomplished performer based in Washington, D.C. Recent appearances include Frauenliebe und Leben at the Make Music Upper Perk Festival, Saint-Saëns’ Christmas Oratorio as alto and mezzo-soprano soloist at St. Patrick’s Church (Washington, D.C.), Elgar’s Sea Pictures with the Dickinson College Orchestra, and Phoebe in Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Yeoman of the Guard with the Young Victorian Theatre Company.

Additional performances include Mahler’s Des Knaben Wunderhorn with the Gettysburg Chamber Orchestra and the double role of the Squirrel and the Teacup in L’Enfant et les Sortilèges with Bel Cantanti Opera.

Ms. Fogler’s career includes her participation as a young artist in the Bonfils-Stanton Foundation program at Central City Opera, where she performed the role of the Announcer in Gallantry. The following year she was a featured soloist in Encore: A Musical Revue. For her performances, she was given the Central City Opera William’s Award and the Studio Artist Award.

Fogler made her MassOpera debut as Orlofsky in Die Fledermaus, a role praised as “delightfully eccentric.” Her credits also include Lepido in Silla with The Cambridge Chamber Ensemble and Global Hope in Keepers of the Light with the Nahant Music Festival.  Ms. Fogler performed as a soloist with the American Institute of Musical Studies’ Festival Orchestra in Graz, Austria, delivering selections as Octavian from Der Rosenkavalier and Dorabella from Così fan tutte. She was recognized with an Encouragement Award at the Meistersinger Competition and was a grant recipient of the Anna Sosenko Trust Fund.

Ms. Fogler earned the Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance from Dickinson College and the Master of Music in Voice Performance from the Boston Conservatory at Berklee, studying under Marilyn Bulli.  She now continues her studies with Rosa Lamoreaux.