Willamette University Faculty Recital: Mackenzie Rogers, soprano

Mackenzie Rogers is a New York City-based opera and musical theatre performer. Company credits include St. Petersburg Opera (FL), The Fireside Theatre (WI), Westchester Broadway Theatre (NY), Utah Festival Opera (UT), Portland Opera (OR), and Broadway Rose Theatre (OR). Recently, Mackenzie had her role and company debut with Pacific Opera Project in Los Angeles as Mrs. Lovett in Sweeney Todd. Additional favorite performed roles include Petra in A Little Night Music, Morticia in The Addams Family, Countess Andrenyi in the play adaptation of Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express, Sister Robert Anne in Nunsense, Lucy in You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown, Martha in The Secret Garden, Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro, and Nancy in Albert Herring. Soloist features range from Heitor Villa-Lobos' Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5: Cantilena, St. Pete Opera's Holiday Sparkle, the national anthem for the Native American Warrior Project and for the NBA Portland Trail Blazers, and in multiple sacred works, including Vivaldi's Gloria, Purcell's Rejoice in the Lord Alway, Mozart's Missa Brevis in D major, and Bach's Jesu, meine Freude. Originally hailing from Oklahoma, Mackenzie is a proud citizen of the Chickasaw Nation. She lives in Manhattan with her husband and their cat.