Melody Moore is a San Francisco Opera 2006 Adler Fellow and former Merola Opera Program participant. She sang Countess Almaviva last summer in Merola Opera Program's The Marriage of Figaro.

She graduated recently from the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, where she performed the roles of Candace Whitcomb in Stephen Paulus's The Village Singer and recieved the Norman Treigle and Andrew White Awards.

Other performances include Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni at Lincoln Thearter in Napa Valley, Dorabella in Cosi Fan Tutte and Amyntas in Il Re Pastore for Opera Circle of Cleveland and the title role in Suor Angelica for the Opera Theatre and Musical Festival of Lucca, Italy. Last April she covered the role of Countess Almaviva at Los Angeles Opera. She recently gave a Schwabacher Debut Recital with New York Festival of Song's Steven Blier.

This summer, she sings with San Francisco Opera, in the role of Kate Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly, Countess Almaviva in The Marriage of Figaro (6/15). She is scheduled to sing Ida in Die Fledermaus, in its 2006-07 season.

Upcoming appearances include four performances with San Francisco Bay Area Early Music with Axel Strauss in January, 2007.