MEREDITH PARSONS MCCOMB SINGS AT THE SALISBURY CHURCH

On Friday, July 17, at 7:30 p.m. the Salisbury Congregational Church will host something of a Vermont farewell performance by Metropolitan Opera alumna Meredith Parsons McComb. The accomplished mezzo soprano has been known to regional audiences since her undergraduate days at Middlebury College and as a founding artist of the Opera Company of Middlebury, where she sang the role of Carmen. Before her departure for a new home in Michigan, where she has taught on the faculty of the National Music Camp at Interlochen, she will present a program entitled “A Brief History of Meredith.” It will include music by Schubert, Mahler, Strauss, Musto, Mitchell, Finzi, Barber, and others, interlaced with anecdotes about a performing career that has spanned from the Met and the Boston and San Francisco Symphonies to France, England, Germany, the Netherlands, and Israel.

This will be the third event in Salisbury’s thirty-sixth annual Summer Performance Series, which will continue on Friday evenings through August 7 at the historic, but handicapped accessible, church in Salisbury Village. Although the church tower will be scaffolded for repairs during this season, the sanctuary will still be readily entered through the front doors and the on-grade rear entrance. Admission is free. A free-will donation in support of the series will be appreciated.