Deanne Meek

[17] In 2007 Meek created the role of Ma Joad in the world premiere of Ricky Ian Gordon's The Grapes of Wrath at the Minnesota Opera.

[18] That same year she appeared as Bianca in Alexander von Zemlinsky's Eine florentinische Tragödie at the Bard Music Festival with conductor Leon Botstein and the American Symphony Orchestra.

[21] The following June she made her debut at La Scala in Milan as Hermia in Benjamin Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream.

[22] Later that year she performed the role of Guilhen in Vincent d'Indy's Fervaal at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center in New York City.

In 2013 she sang in the world premiere of Sheila Silver's song cycle Beauty Intolerable alongside soprano Lauren Flanigan in New York.