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August 16 & 17 ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES

The 2021-22 season brought three role debuts
at the Deutsche Oper Berlin: Gretel in Hänsel und
Gretel, Woglinde in Götterdämmerung and Musetta
in La bohème. The season also included repeat
performances of Oscar in Un ballo in maschera and
Frasquita in Carmen.
Additional season engagements included Marrero’s
debuts in Spain and Portugal as Gretel in a concert
version of Hänsel und Gretel with the Orquesta
Sinfónica del Principado de Asturias in Oviedo,
Spain, and Adina in L’elisir d’Amore with Plateia
Protagonista in Portugal. She also reprised Carmina
Burana in the 2022 Gala Concert at Sun Valley
Music Festival and returned to the Grand Teton
Music Festival to sing Musetta in La bohème with
Sir Donald Runnicles conducting.
Marrero’s summer season culminated with Runnicles
and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra,
celebrating the opening concert of the Edinburgh
International Festival’s 2022 concert series with
another performance of Carmina Burana.
Marrero’s 2020-21 season included several role
debuts at the Deutsche Oper Berlin: Nannetta in
Falstaff, Biancofiore in a new production of Francesca
da Rimini by Christof Loy (recorded on DVD for Naxos),
Meechot Marrero and Tebaldo in Don Carlo. Other engagements
Soprano/Papagena included a recital with Joel Prieto and the role
of Rosaura in the zarzuela Los gavilanes with
CulturArte de Puerto Rico and the Puerto Rico
Soprano Meechot Marrero has been called, Symphony Orchestra.
“a revelation... a young Puerto Rican star with a
great career ahead” (El Nuevo Día). As a member of Roles at the Deutsche Oper Berlin during the
the Deutsche Oper Berlin ensemble, the 2023-24 2019-20 season included Liù in Turandot, Oscar
season (Marrero’s eighth with the company) includes in Un ballo in maschera, a role debut of Micäela in
performances as Papagena in Die Zauberflöte, Carmen, Adele in Die Fledermaus, Pamina in Die
Frasquita in Carmen, Gretel in Hänsel und Gretel Zauberflöte and Jano in Jenůfa. In the same season,
and Blumenmädchen II in Parsifal, in addition to Marrero reprised Cunegonde in Candide at the
engagements with Opera San Antonio as Gretel in Komische Oper Berlin and Carmina Burana under
Hänsel und Gretel and concert appearances with the the baton of Sir Donald Runnicles at the Grand Teton
Nashville Symphony, the Sun Valley Music Festival Music Festival.
and the Grand Teton Music Festival. www.meechot.com
During the 2022-23 season, Marrero reprised
the role of Gretel both in Europe with the Deutsche
Oper Berlin, as well as in the US with New Orleans
Opera. Additional performances in Berlin included
Marzelline in Fidelio, Papagena in Die Zauberflöte,
Adele in Die Fledermaus and Biancofiore in Francesca
da Rimini.

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