Mezzo-soprano Roxanne Rowedder, a native of Iowa, is the winner of the George London/Kirsten Flagstad Award from the George London Foundation, Licia Albanese Puccini Foundation, Fritz and Lavinia Jensen Foundation and Opera Index.

In 2007 she performed with Canadian Opera Company of Toronto, where she sang Erste Magd and covered Ewa Podles (Klytämnestra) in Strauss’s Elektra.

She made her Carnegie Hall Debut in Handel’s Messiah with The Oratorio Society of New York in December 2002. Roxanne recently returned to Sarasota where she sang the role of Dryade in Strauss’ Ariadne auf Naxos and covered Azucena in Verdi’s Le Trouvere. Ms. Rowedder has also performed the role of Emilia in Verdi’s Otello at Opera Delaware and Ulrica in Verdi’s Un ballo in maschera. She has also performed the role of Mamma Lucia and covered Santuzza with New Jersey State Opera.

On the concert stage, Ms. Rowedder has appeared as a soloist in Handel’s Messiah, Mendelssohn’s Elijah, and Beethoven’s Mass in C with the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Symphony and Chorale.

She has sung many concerts with the Wagner Society of Washington D.C. with Evelyn Lear and Thomas Stewart’s Emerging Singers Program.

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