Margot Rood
Margot Rood (Vocalist), hailed for her “sterling, gleaming tone and magnificent control” by The Washington Post, performs a wide range of repertoire.
2024/2025 performances include her debut with Washington DC’s Folger Consort, as well as return appearances with Washington Bach Consort, Blue Heron, Handel & Haydn Society, True Concord Voices and Orchestra, and Capitol Early Music. Recent solo appearances include those with Toronto’s Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra (Messiah), Edinburgh’s Dunedin Consort (St. Matthew Passion), South Florida’s Enlightenment Festival (BWV 202 & 211), Washington Bach Consort (BWV 106 & 198), Cleveland Orchestra (Stravinsky Threni), Boston Symphony (Benjamin Dream of the Song), Rhode Island Philharmonic (Messiah), Philharmonia Baroque (BWV 61 & 140), New Jersey Symphony (Messiah), Charlotte Symphony Orchestra (Mozart Requiem), New World Symphony (Reich Desert Music), Handel + Haydn Society (The Fairy Queen, Mass in B Minor), TENET Vocal Artists (Messiah, Praetorius Vespers), Seraphic Fire (Messiah, Vivaldi Gloria), Bach Collegium San Diego (Messiah), A Far Cry (Golijov Three Songs), and numerous concerts with acclaimed ensemble Blue Heron.
Margot’s recent operatic appearances include the title roles in the world premiere of Rameau’s Io and the modern premiere of Pierre de La Garde’s Léandre et Héro with Opera Lafayette, La Renommée in Lalande’s Les Fontaines de Versailles and Oreste Nunzia in Francesca Caccini’s Alcina with Boston Early Music Festival, Galatea in Acis & Galatea, and First Witch in Dido & Aeneas with Handel + Haydn Society, Polly Peachum in The Beggar’s Opera and Hyacinthus in Mozart’s Apollo et Hyacinthus with Emmanuel Music, Amor in Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice with Grand Harmonie, and Johanna in Sweeney Todd with St. Petersburg Opera.
Notable recording releases include Blue Heron’s Ockeghem Songs, Vol. 1 & 2, La Paix in Charpentier’s Les Arts Florissants and La Renommée in Lalande’s Les Fontaines de Versailles with Boston Early Music Festival (CPO), and Emily Webb on Monadnock Music’s recording of Ned Rorem’s Our Town (New World Records). She has recorded repertoire from the medieval to the 21st century with Coro, Albany Records, Blue Heron, BMOP Sound, Toccata Classics, and Sono Luminus. Her solo recording of art song by composer Heather Gilligan, Living in Light, is available from Albany Records. She can be heard on Blue Heron’s Music from the Peterhouse Partbooks Vol. 5, which won the Gramophone Award for Early Music. Margot holds degrees from the University of Michigan and McGill University.