This spring, Megan will serve as Resident Teaching Artist at McNeese State University, providing students in the Department of Voice with supplemental voice lessons, master classes, and lectures. Lecture topics will include Musician Identity, Building Strong Voices, Vocal Health and Longevity, Straw Phonation, Career Strategy, and other discussions regarding performing arts health and vocal pedagogy.
For their traditional Thanksgiving weekend feast, the Boston Early Music Festival opens a treasure trove of video archives for the first time to share FREE streaming broadcasts of two productions inspired by the Orpheus legend from our GRAMMY Award-winning Chamber Opera Series! Please tune in on November 29, 2020 at 3pm to watch a double-bill featuring Charpentier’s La Descente d’Orphée aux Enfers.
Playing the role of Daphne/Guyot, this was Megan’s first professional opera production back in 2011. She reprised the role with BEMF when they revived the production in 2013. It remains one of her most treasured memories.
These broadcasts will be freely available for a limited time on YouTube – subscribe to BEMF’s YouTube channel today! Be sure to watch for additional new videos, including documentaries on the making of each production, video lectures, and a 30-minute excerpt from BEMF’s 2017 fully staged production of Campra’s Le Carnaval de Venise, featuring an Orpheus-themed “opera-within-an-opera” attended by the characters of the larger story.
This fall, Megan will begin a virtual tour of her lecture on musician identity, a hot topic about which so many musicians crave to understand more. In timeless "heal thyself" fashion, Megan digs into identity theory, athletic identity research, and the existing research on musician identity, which yet remains limited. She walks the audience through common elements of the musician experience, equipping listeners with greater enlightenment and empowerment for navigating their own journeys.
To book this lecture at your high school or university, contact <[email protected]>.
On August 8th, The Milal Orchestra will present a virtual concert of Disney songs, on which Megan will perform "A Whole New World" together with baritone Brock Johnson. The mission of this unique orchestra is to embrace and include artists with disabilities. Megan is honored to perform with them on this special concert. While Covid continues to shake our world, the arts continue to be a source of light and joy, displaying the stubborn resilience and hope of the human spirit.
Check out this performance on August 8th by clicking this link: https://www.facebook.com/Milal...
Late July through early August promises an international adventure as I cross the ocean to perform two operas at the Olomouc Baroque Festival, including Bononcini's Proteo Sul Reno, and a newly completed version of the very first opera in history, Peri's Dafne. This rendition of Dafne was edited and completed by Vit Zouhar. More details to come!
Update: Sadly, Covid-19 has wiped out my summer plans to perform in the Czech Republic. I am rallying with new ventures, while holding onto a sliver of hope that my Olomouc performances may be rescheduled next year. Onward and upward!
On November 8th, Megan will sing the role of Zerlina in Mozart's Don Giovanni, which will be produced at University of North Texas under the direction of Jonathan Eaton and Robert Frankenberry. "High fashion" style costumes are being designed and constructed by the UNT fashion department.
Date: November 8th
Time: 7:30pm
Location: The Lyric Theater in the Murchison Performing Arts Center at UNT
Address: 1155 Union Circle, Denton, TX 76201
On November 3rd, Megan will sing the role of Zerlina in Mozart's Don Giovanni, which will be produced at University of North Texas under the direction of Jonathan Eaton and Robert Frankenberry. "High fashion" style costumes are being designed and constructed by the UNT fashion department.
Date: November 3rd
Time: 3:00 pm
Location: The Lyric Theater in the Murchison Performing Arts Center at UNT
Address: 1155 Union Circle, Denton, TX 76201
Galveston Symphony Orchestra kicks off their 40th season with a celebration of The 1894 Opera House, featuring popular arias from the early seasons of the beloved venue.
Megan joins Charlottesville Opera this summer for their 2019 season, featuring concerts and a staged production of Camelot.
DMA Recital #2 Program: Concert, Oratorio, & Opera Arias by Handel & Mozart Time: 5pm Location: Voertman Hall, UNT
Megan Stapleton, soprano
Daniel Bubeck, countertenor
Casey Goldman, trumpet
Henry Setton, violin
Victoria Klaunig, violin
Jorge Luis Zapata Marin, viola
Hector Torres, guitar & theorbo
Stephanie Shelten, viola da gamba
Imre Pátkai, harpsichord & piano