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    • Singer. Actor. Mezzo-soprano.

      CARY ANN

      ROSKO

    • ABOUT CARY

      A versatile, sincere, and powerful performer, Cary Ann Rosko enjoys a career that spans multiple theatre genres. She has appeared on stages throughout the Bay Area and is known for her “lush contralto,” sharp comic timing, and moving dramatic performances. Cary has been described as a “remarkably funny and expressive” performer, demonstrating “heartwarming vulnerability” onstage.

       

      Cary began her theatre training in opera and quickly distinguished herself as an earnest and incisive singer. Some of her favorite standard operatic roles are Marcellina and Cherubino (The Marriage of Figaro), Fricka (Die Walküre), Lola (Cavalleria Rusticana), Tisbe (La Cenerentola), Siebel (Faust), and Olga (Eugene Onegin).

       

      An enthusiastic fan of modern opera, Cary’s credits also include Tobias Picker’s Emmeline (Aunt Hannah), Philip Glass’ Les Enfants Terribles (Dargelos/Agathe), the world premiere of Mary Watkins’ Dark River (Sheriff’s Wife), Anthony Davis’ X, The Life and Times of Malcolm X (Reporter), and the West Coast premiere of Robert Xavier Rodríguez’s La Curandera (Dionisia).

       

      Cary is also a Gilbert and Sullivan specialist. As a long-standing member of renowned G&S company Lamplighters Music Theatre, she has sung a majority of the mezzo-soprano and contralto roles in the canon, as well as many newly written roles in the company’s annual Gala productions. Her sensitivity to dialogue and character is especially evident in this genre, making her an audience favorite. As part of the Lamplighters’ campaign to record the entirety of G&S’s operettas, she is featured on multiple CDs, which have received favorable reviews from such respected classical music sources as Opera News.

      Photo by Vero Kherian
      Photo by Vero Kherian

      Equally at home in American musical theatre, Cary brings authenticity to every part she plays. She has sung such roles as Charlotte (A Little Night Music), Donna/Oolie (City of Angels), Old Woman (Candide), Ilona Ritter (She Loves Me), Julie (Show Boat), and Cleo (The Most Happy Fella). She is a two-time nominee for Best Featured Actress in a Musical (Local) by BroadwayWorld (San Francisco) for her portrayals of Ilona Ritter (She Loves Me) and Aunt Hannah (Emmeline).

       

      More recently, Cary has branched out into nonmusical theatre. She originated the role of MJ in The Law of Attraction, commissioned by New Conservatory Theatre Center and premiered as a radio play. Cary is also a frequent performer with the Playwrights' Center of San Francisco, appearing in their developmental reading series and PlayOffs, their annual award-winning, fully-staged production.

       

      A Midwestern Californian, Cary grew up outside Chicago and currently lives in San Francisco. She received her Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana and her Master of Music degree from the New England Conservatory in Boston.

       

      Cary also holds a Marriage and Family Therapist license and has a private practice in San Francisco where she provides integrative psychotherapy focused on the holistic treatment of anxiety and trauma. As both a performing artist and therapist, Cary's strength lies in her ability to communicate and connect on multiple levels in search of deeper truths.

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      "deep and engaging mezzo soprano and sly stage presence" - SF Classical voice

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      As Cherubino in The Marriage of Figaro
      As Lady Angela in Patience
      As Donna in City of Angels
      As the Duchess of Plaza Toro in The Gondoliers
      As Old Woman in Candide
      As Ilona Ritter in She Loves Me
      As Aunt Hannah Watkins in Emmeline
      As Iolanthe in Iolanthe
    • IOLANTHE - FAIRY QUEEN

      “As Queen of the Fairies, Cary Ann Rosko simply cracks me up. Her timing and facial expressions are superb, and she invests every role with heartwarming vulnerability.”

      Philip Campbell, The Bay Area Reporter (2018)

      THE GONDOLIERS - duchess of plaza toro

      “Cary Ann Rosko played the Duchess with a bit of a twinkle in her eye, always stepping in to get the Duke to up his game. She made her second act solo come alive by her top rate acting, keeping the audience interested by really telling the story while thrilling us with her lush contralto."

      Jeff DeMarco, Peninsula Reviews (2018)

      city of angels -donna/oolie

      “Rosko’s characters stood head and shoulders above the rest in terms of believability and period/genre-appropriateness.”

      Harry Duke, Sonoma County Gazette (2015)

      The marriage of figaro - cherubino

      “Mezzo-soprano Cary Ann Rosko shines in a pants role as Cherubino, the Count’s flirtatious young page, whom the Count suspects is having an affair with his wife. Rosko’s impish antics are delightful, especially when Susanna and the Countess dress him in girl’s clothes as a disguise. Rosko’s Act II aria “You ladies know what love is” was well sung and the leap out the window that followed comically executed.”

      Geneva Anderson, ARThound (2014)

      emmeline - aunt hannah

      “Cary Ann Rosko gives a chilling performance in the role of Emmeline’s Aunt Hannah - an acerbic, pious but still human character working beautifully off of Hennessey’s sweetness.”

      Richard Riccardi, Classical Sonoma (2010)

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    • MEDIA

      Alone, and yet alive - The Mikado

      Baker Peeples, piano

      2019

      A trip to the library - She Loves Me

      Debra Lambert, piano

      2019

      Il vecchiotto cerca moglie - Barber of Seville

      Baker Peeples, piano

      2019

      Days and days - Fun Home

      Debra Lambert, piano

      2019

      Mon coeur s'ouvre à ta voix - Samson et Dalila

      Baker Peeples, piano

      2019

      Bill - Show Boat

      Debra Lambert, piano

      2019

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