The power and sultry elegance that comes naturally to mezzo-soprano, Audrey Babcock, easily evokes such signature roles as Carmen, Lucretia, or Delilah. However, it is her rich sound coupled with an instinctual sense of timing that has allowed the versatile young singer to weave in and out of sensuality, tragedy, comedy, and madness.

Of her recent performance in Rigoletto with Florida Grand Opera, Mr. Budmen of the Miami Herald wrote, "Audrey Babcock's dusky mezzo-soprano and sexy theatricality lit up the stage as Maddalena." This season Ms. Babcock has performed the title role in Carmen for the Westfield Symphony (a role she covered for The New York City Opera), Lola in Cavalleria Rusticana (Washington Concert Opera) and she presented New York with a gritty new conception of the music of Kurt Weill in the her one woman show, Lily, her life his music; a show about a fictional Holocaust survivor. Past productions include Mrs. Lovett in Sweeney Todd and Tisbe in La Cenerentola (Wolf Trap Opera), Carmen in The Tragedy of Carmen (Florida Grand Opera), and the title role of Benjamin Britten's The Rape of Lucretia (Santa Fe Opera Apprentice Artists showcase). Ms. Babcock has also performed with the New York City Opera, Seattle Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Florida Grand Opera, and The New World Symphony.

Ms. Babcock is equally noteworthy in her symphonic concert and recital engagements, which have included "Murder and other Operatic Mayhem" with the National Symphony Orchestra and "Where the Boys Are" with musical director, Steve Blier. The Washington Post noted of her recital at the Phillips Collection "...[Ms. Babcock's] diction is excellent and...she used language with extraordinary power and dramatic impact...[Kurt] Weill's brashness and Babcock's dramatic strengths are a perfect match." And of her side-splitting portrayal of Mrs. Lovett in Sweeney Todd, T.L Ponick (The Washington Times) described the singer as "a strutting, comic sensation..."

Ms. Babcock is a winner of the George London Award and the Fritz and Lavinia Jensen Foundation award. She was also a Metropolitan Opera Regional Finalist two years in a row. She was a first place winner in the Friday Morning Music Club Washington International Voice Competition and placed in the Florida Grand YPO Voice Competition, Palm Beach Opera Voice Competition, and the Liederkranz Foundation Scholarship Award.

Upcoming engagements include covering the title role in Carmen with New York City Opera, Aldonza/Dulcinea in The Man of La Mancha with Utah Festival Opera, and the title role in Tobais Picker's Therese Raquin with Di Capo Opera.

Ms. Babcock currently resides in Midtown, NYC.