Mezzo-soprano Janice Meyerson has triumphed in opera houses and concert halls on five continents, bringing her rich tone and dramatic characterizations to a wide-ranging repertoire. Since her professional debut as Brangäne in Tristan und Isolde with the Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Leonard Bernstein, she has appeared as soloist with many of the finest symphony orchestras, including the New York Philharmonic, Boston Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra, Milwaukee Symphony, National Symphony, New Orleans Symphony, Mexico City Philharmonic, Dallas Symphony, and American Symphony with such conductors as Leonard Bernstein, Seiji Ozawa, John Eliot Gardiner, Sir Charles Mackerras, Rafael Kubelik, Leonard Slatkin, and Christian Badea.

In autumn 2007, Miss Meyerson can be heard in the title role in Carmen at the Teatro Solís in Montevideo, Uruguay; and as the Prioress in Poulenc’s Dialogues of the Carmelites at the Kentucky Opera in Louisville. In spring 2008, she returns to the Kennedy Center with the Washington National Opera in Der fliegende Holländer.

Her operatic appearances have included leading roles with Deutsche Oper Berlin (Laura in La Gioconda), Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires (Amneris in Aida), Frankfurt Opera (three seasons as Amneris), New York City Opera (Santuzza in Cavalleria Rusticana; title role in Carmen), Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels (title role in Carmen), L’Opéra de Montréal (Herodias in Salome), Vlaamse Opera in Antwerp (Adriano in Rienzi), Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City (Judith in Bluebeard’s Castle), Washington Opera (Baba the Turk in The Rake’s Progress), Opera Company of Philadelphia (Olga in Eugene Onegin), Essen Opera, Germany (Eboli in Don Carlo; Ulrica in Un Ballo in Maschera), Staatstheater Kassel, Germany (Kostelnicka in Jenufa; Preziosilla in La Forza del Destino; Fricka in Der Ring des Nibelungen), New Orleans Opera, and Houston Grand Opera (Suzuki in Madama Butterfly).

In 2007, Miss Meyerson returned to the Washington National Opera for Jenufa, and sang Madame Raquin in the New York premiere of Tobias Picker's Thérèse Raquin with DiCapo Opera. Recent seasons include Miss Meyerson's Herodias in Salome with the Florida Grand Opera in Miami (2003); 2004-05 included Madame in Les Bonnes (Bengtson/Genet), a return engagement with the Angers-Nantes Opéra, France; Frugola the Cat Lady in Il Tabarro with the Arizona Opera; Wagner's Wesendonck Lieder with the Omaha Symphony; and contralto soloist with Leon Botstein and the American Symphony in Shostakovich's From Jewish Folk Poetry at the Bard Music Festival, where she also appeared in 2005-06 as soloist in the orchestral version of Copland's Eight Poems of Emily Dickinson. In 2006, she will sing Chausson's Poème de l'Amour et de la Mer with the Wyoming Symphony. Miss Meyerson has also appeared on the roster of Barcelona's Gran Teatre del Liceu, most recently in 2004 as Mrs. Sedley in Peter Grimes, a role she will repeat with the San Diego Opera in 2009.

Other engagements have included London's Queen Elizabeth Hall in the demanding Wagnerian role of Adriano in Rienzi; Opernhaus Halle, Germany, a return engagement for Amneris in Aida; Ulrica in Un Ballo in Maschera in Concord, Massachusetts; Schnittke's Faust Cantata at the Teatro São Carlos in Lisbon; Verdi's Requiem in Carnegie Hall; Kabanicha in Janacek's Katja Kabanova with Opera Ireland in Dublin; the Mother in The Consul with the Nantes Opéra; and Judith in Bluebeard's Castle with the New England Philharmonic.

Summer festival appearances include Marlboro, Spoleto USA, Tanglewood, Aspen, Chautauqua, and Wolf Trap. She is featured on the CD For the Night to Wear, music of Donald Harris, released on CRI. A native of Nebraska, Miss Meyerson earned a B.A. from Washington University in St. Louis and an M.M. from the New England Conservatory of Music. She was also a vocal fellow at Tanglewood for two summers. She currently works with Armen Boyajian and resides with her husband, Raymond Scheindlin, in New York City.