Photo: Jessica Osber Photography

A Fantasic hannah!

- Mark Campbell, As One Librettist

BIOGRAPHY

Praised for her “velvety voice” (Chicago Tribune) and “rich resonant sound”, “powerhouse mezzo-soprano” Ashley Kay Armstrong’s “star power” “lights up the stage” while “deliver[ing] riveting performances” to audiences throughout the nation.

Ms. Armstrong begins her 2023/2024 season as Suzuki in Madama Butterfly in her company debut with Teatro Lirico D’Europa.  In her 2022/2023 season, Ms. Armstrong returned to the role of Hannah After in Kaminsky’s As One as a guest artist with Hawaii Performing Arts Festival and made her debut with Boheme Opera NJ as Suzuki in Madama Butterfly. She also returned to Opera Idaho as Třetí žínka in Rusalka.

During the 2021/2022 season, Ms. Armstrong debuted with North Shore Music Festival as The Mother in Amahl and the Night Visitors and returned to Opera Santa Barbara for her role debut as Hannah After. During her 2020/2021 season she performed Hansel in Bel Cantanti Opera’s filmed production of Hansel and Gretel, and was scheduled to make her role debuts as Jo March in Adamo’s Little Women with Opera Santa Barbara, Carrie Pipperidge in Cedar Rapids Opera’s production of Carousel, and Sister Lilliane in Dead Man Walking with Opera Idaho, but all three were unfortunately cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Other recent career highlights include Olga in Eugene Onegin, Rebecca Nurse in The Crucible, and Véronique in Le docteur Miracle with Opera Santa Barbara; Javotte in Manon with Opera Idaho; Kate Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly, Jenny Diver in The Threepenny Opera, and Meg Brockie in Brigadoon with Cedar Rapids Opera. She has been a Semi-Finalist for the American Prize in Art Song and is managed by Encompass Arts.