LISA NEHER | MEZZO-SOPRANO | COMPOSER
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Staged Performance

Zandra | Alice Tierney (West Coast Premiere) | Melissa Dunphy, composer; Jacqueline Goldfinger, librettist | New Wave Opera | 2025
Marie Curie | Marie Curie Learns to Swim (West Coast Premiere) | Jessica Rudman, composer; Kendra Preston Leonard, librettist | New Wave Opera | 2025
Woman | Four Dialogues | Ned Rorem, composer; Frank O'Hara, librettist | Cascadia Chamber Opera | 2025
Angie | Pepito |
Nicolás Lell Benavides, composer; Marella Martin Koch, librettist | New Wave Opera | 2025
Chester | Meow and Forever | Jodi Goble, composer; Basil Considine, librettist | New Wave Opera | 2025
Narrator | THUMP! (West Coast Premiere) | Kimberly R. Osberg, composer; libretto based on Edgar Allan Poe | New Wave Opera | 2024
Sophia | Serial Killers and the City (West Coast Premiere) | Del'Shawn Taylor, composer; Joanie Brittingham, librettist | New Wave Opera | 2024
​Board President & Ensemble | Rella, a new musical by Bevin Victoria & Aaron Wheeler-Kay | Echo Theatre Company | 2024
Mom/Siren, Farmer, Vice President, Sophia | Five Ways to Die (World Premiere) | Experiments in Opera | 2024
Dana Daring | Adam's Run | Ruby Fulton, composer; Baynard Woods, librettist | Renegade Opera | 2023
Anna | The Times are Nightfall | Rossa Crean, composer; Aiden Feltkamp, librettist | Queer Opera | 2022
Astronaut | Space Station 189 (World Premiere) | JL Marlor, composer; Aiden Feltkamp, librettist | New Music Gathering | 2021
Julian | The Showing of Love (World Premiere) | Brooke Joyce, composer; libretto based on writings of Julian of Norwich | Luther College | 2021
Female Soloist | This Land Sings |  Michael Daugherty, composer & librettist | Opera Theatre Oregon | 2019
Inez; Duchess (Cover) |
The Gondoliers | Arthur Sullivan, composer; W. S. Gilbert, librettist | Martha-Ellen Tye Opera Theatre, 2015
Mrs. Malaprop | The Rivals | Kirke Mechem, composer; libretto adapted from Richard Brinsley Sheridan | Martha-Ellen Tye Opera Theatre | 2015
Dorabella | 
Cosí fan tutte | W.A. Mozart, composer; Lorenzo Da Ponte, librettist | Iowa City Concert Opera | 2015
​Jennifer | One Thousand White Paper Cranes for Japan (World Premiere) | Rita Ueda, composer; Rod Robertson, librettist | Chamber Sounds of Singapore | 2014
Singer | Sun Songs: Three Micro-Operas | Augusta Read Thomas, composer; Emily Dickinson, poet | Center for New Music, 2014
Prince Orlofsky | Die Fledermaus | Johann Strauss II, composer; Richard Genée & Carl Haffner, librettists | Martha-Ellen Tye Opera Theatre | 2014
Cherubino | Le nozze di Figaro | W.A. Mozart, composer; Lorenzo Da Ponte, librettist | Midwest Institute of Opera, 2013
Annio | La clemenza di Tito | W.A. Mozart, composer; Caterino Mazzolà, librettist | Martha-Ellen Tye Opera Theatre | 2013
Handmaiden | Turandot | Giacomo Puccini, composer; Giuseppe Adami, Renato Simoni, librettists | Lyric Opera of Kansas City | 2011
Cherubino | Le nozze di Figaro | W.A. Mozart, composer; Lorenzo Da Ponte, librettist | American Singers Opera Project | 2011
Mistress of Novices | Suor Angelica | Giacomo Puccini, composer; Giovacchino Forzano, librettist | University of Kansas | 2011
Student | The Nightingale and the Rose (World Premiere) | Li Kai Han Jeremiah, composer & librettist | Helianthus Ensemble | 2011

Opera chorus

Mezzo Chorister, Portland Opera, 2019-Present
La bohème | Giacomo Puccini, composer;  Luigi Illica, Giuseppe Giacosa, librettists | 2025
Falstaff 
| Giuseppe Verdi, composer; Arrigo Boito, librettist | 2025
Puccini in Concert | music of Giacomo Puccini | 2024

Rusalka | Antonín Dvořák, composer; Jaroslav Kvapil, librettist | 2023
Carmen
 | Georges Bizet, composer;  Henri Meilhac & Ludovic Halévy, librettists | 2022

Mezzo Chorister, Cedar Rapids Opera, 2013-2014
The Mikado | Arthur Sullivan, composer; W. S. Gilbert, librettist | 2014
Carmen | Georges Bizet, composer;  Henri Meilhac & Ludovic Halévy, librettists | 2014

Mezzo Chorister, Kansas City Lyric Opera, 2011-2012
Nixon in China | John Adams, composer, Alice Goodman, librettist | 2012
Turandot ​| Giacomo Puccini, composer; Giuseppe Adami, Renato Simoni, librettists | 2011

Contemporary


Joseph Adams, All I Have to Give (world premiere)
University of Iowa
 
Anthony Arnone, The Light that Fills the World (world premiere)
University of Iowa, 2014
 
Adam Borecki, A Superscription (world premiere)
Cortona Sessions for New Music, Italy, 2013
 
Joseph Eidson, Birds of Passage
University of Iowa, 2014
 
Joseph Eidson, Songs of Enchantment and Wonder (world premiere)
Signs of Life Café, Lawrence, 2011
 
Jonah Elrod, The Vulture (world premiere)
iHearIC Concert Series, 2015
 
Gabriela Lena Frank, Cuatro Canciones Andinas
University of Iowa, 2014
 
John Harbison, Book of Hours and Seasons (selections)
Congregational Church of Iowa City, 2013
 
Jeremiah Li Kai Han, Three Japanese Poems
Cortona Sessions for New Music, Italy, 2013
 
Lisa Neher, American Waters (world premiere)
University of Iowa, 2014
 
Lisa Neher, Listen to All Things Burning (world premire)
University of Kansas, 2011
 
Lisa Neher, Snapshots
Cortona Sessions for New Music, Italy, 2013
 
Nicole Murphy, dark waters and air stirs (world premiere)
iHearIC Concert Series, 2016
 
Forrest Pierce, gazelles
Congregational Church of Iowa City, 2013
 
Dakota Wayne, Selected Poems (world premiere)
Cortona Sessions for New Music, Italy, 2013
 
Jonathan Wilson, Love Songs (selections) (world premiere)
Iowa Composer’s Forum, 2014
 
Ryan Woodhouse, Songs of Summer (world premire)
Congregational Church of Iowa City, 2013
 
Ryan Woodhouse, Songs of Winter (selections)
University of Kansas, 2011
 
Catalina Von Wrangell, Alone (world premiere)
iHearIC Concert Series, 2016
 

Concert Soloist


Bach: Erschallet, ihr Lieder, erklinget, ihr Saiten! BWV 172
First United Methodist Church of Iowa City, 2013

Bach: Lobet Gott in seinem Reichen BWV 11 (Ascension Oratorio)
Chamber Singers of Iowa City, 2016

Bach: Magnificat BWV 243
Chamber Singers of Iowa City, 2016
 
Bach: Wir mich liebet, der wird mein Wort halten, BWV 59
First United Methodist Church of Iowa City, 2015
 
Brahms: 2 Songs for Alto, Viola, and Piano, Op. 91
Iowa City, 2014
 
Britten: Rejoice in the Lamb
Westport Presbyterian Church, Kansas City, 2011
 
Duruflé: Requiem
Chamber Singers of Iowa City, 2014
 
Mozart: Requiem, K. 626
University of Iowa, 2014
 
Mozart: Vesperae solennes de confessore, K.339
Cedar Rapids Concert Chorale, 2014
 
Pärt: Passio
Chamber Singers of Iowa City, 2016
 
Rossini: Duetto buffo di due gatti
Graceland University, 2015
 
Stravinksy:  Four Russian Peasant Songs
University of Iowa, 2014
 
Vivaldi: Gloria RV 588
University of Iowa, 2015
 
Vivaldi: Gloria RV 589
Northwest Vocal Arts, 2025
Central Iowa Symphony, 2015
Grinnell Oratorio Singers, 2014
 

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