“Celine Mogielnicki delivered a stunning aria as Milica, signifying her transition into womanhood. At the end of the opera, Mogielnicki gives a long and haunting aria.. In it, her voice is stunningly powerful and strong. It filled the entire space of the theater with its rich sound. The piece was sung calmly and steadily, and yet, with an undercurrent of something that was wondering and mournful and hopeful all at once.”
Svadba (Ana Sokolovic)- Baltimore Theater Project (The News-Letter, Helena Gifford)
“The Wonder Here is that the four principles- Sopranos Chloe Olivia Moore and Celine Mogielnicki, Tenor Derrek Stark and Baritone Isaac Bray are not already under contract to some famous opera company… soprano mogielnicki has a similarly impressive projection but with a more robust quality that suits her role as the flirtatious, somewhat pugnacious, musetta”
La Boheme, Bar Harbor Music Festival ( The Mount Desert Islander, Nan Lincoln)
“Mogielnicki sings with such enthusiastic ardor that she communicates the pleasure of song with authority”
“Her German appeared perfect in diction and phrasing as she filled the library with powerful gradations of emotion, whether of love or nostalgia, seemingly free of the intense technique required.”
(Millbrook Independent)
Upcoming & Recent ENGAGEMENTS
Don Giovanni
Donna Anna
(Role Debut)
August 14-17, 2025
Winter Harbor Music Festival
Così fan tutte
Fiordiligi (Role Debut)
SOPRANO Celine Mogielnicki is garnering recognition for her “stunningly powerful, rich sound”,“delicious” (Opera Today) and “finely balanced" (NY Times) singing, “perfect in diction and phrasing with powerful gradations of emotions” (Millbrook Independent). She is dedicated to versatility and sensitivity in her work, spanning from Mozart’s leading ladies to world premiere collaborations in opera, concert, and recital.
A prize-winning graduate of the Juilliard School and Dawn Upshaw’s graduate vocal arts program at Bard College, Ms. Mogielnicki has sung with LA Opera, Wolf Trap Opera, Bard Summerscape, Caramoor, Washington Concert Opera, Opera Baltimore, Charlottesville Opera (formerly Ash Lawn Opera) and DC Public Opera in both standard and contemporary works. Recent leading roles include Fiordiligi, Countess, Rosalinde, Mimì, Governess, Micaela, Pamina, Marzelline and Musetta. Particularly devoted to 20th/21st century works, she has given world premieres by David T. Little (Sir Elton John’s Trainer in Vinkensport), Missy Mazzoli (Song from the Uproar), Brian Hulse (Questa rosa novella) and Stephen Gorbos (Whitman Fragments). Oratorio and concert credits include Mozart’s Requiem, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony and Mass in C Major, Handel’s Messiah and the world premiere of Judd Greenstein’s Vayomer Schlomo in Zankel Hall. She made her Carnegie Hall Debut in Vaughn William’s Serenade to Music under conductor Benjamin Zander and has appeared in concert with the National Symphony Orchestra, American Symphony Orchestra, National Music Festival, Southwest Florida Symphony, Friends of Mozart Society, Bel Canto at Caramoor, and the Transfiguration Choirs of New York City, Washington National Cathedral, Hudson Valley Chamber Music, the Rhinebeck Chamber Music Society, 23Arts Initiative, Z1 Konzerte Berlin, Orania Berlin concert series, Winter Harbor Music Festival and Schoodic Arts in Downeast Maine. Recordings include Meyerbeer’s Les Huguenots (Leonard/Premiere Bohemienne) with the American Symphony Orchestra under Leon Botstein and Missy Mazzoli’s Song from the Uproar with NOW ensemble under New Amsterdam label.
In the 2024/2025 season, Ms. Mogielnicki makes her role debut as Donna Anna in Mozart’s Don Giovanni, joins the Washington International Piano series as a guest artist and continues her long standing relationship with the Long Island Choral Society, returning as soprano soloist in Handel’s Messiah. In the 2023/2024 season she gave her DC recital debut with Little City Concerts in and made 2 role debuts, as Milica in Ana Sokolović’s Svadba at Baltimore Theater Project and as Fiordiligi in Mozart’s Cosi Fan Tutte. She also returns to the Bar Harbor Music Festival as soprano soloist in concerts featuring Italian operatic classics and the music of Stephen Sondheim in July 2024. During the 2022/2023 season, she joined Opera Baltimore for Benjamin Britten’s Turn of the Screw (Governess cover), the Long Island Choral Society as soprano soloist for Handel’s Messiah, and made role debuts as Rosalinde in Johann Strauss’ Die Fledermaus, Contessa in Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro with the Winter Harbor Music Festival. Other recent performances include Musetta in La Bohème and a Rodgers and Hammerstein Pops concert with Bar Harbor Music Festival, Solo recital of Sirens and Sailors: Songs of Love and the Sea at Surry Arts Barn, as well recitals with Schoodic Arts Festival. Other oratorio and concert credits include Mozart’s Requiem, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony and Mass in C Major, Handel’s Messiah and the world premiere of Judd Greenstein’s Vayomer Schlomo in Zankel Hall. She made her Carnegie Hall Debut in Vaughn William’s Serenade to Music under conductor Benjamin Zander and has appeared in concert with the National Symphony Orchestra, American Symphony Orchestra, National Music Festival, Southwest Florida Symphony, Friends of Mozart Society, Bel Canto at Caramoor, and the Transfiguration Choirs of New York City, Washington National Cathedral, Hudson Valley Chamber Music, the Rhinebeck Chamber Music Society, 23Arts Initiative, Z1 Konzerte Berlin, Orania Berlin concert series, Winter Harbor Music Festival and Schoodic Arts in Downeast Maine.
Recordings include Meyerbeer’s Les Huguenots (Leonard/Premiere Bohemienne) with the American Symphony Orchestra under Leon Botstein under Celestial Label and Missy Mazzoli’s Song from the Uproar with NOW ensemble under New Amsterdam label.
Since September 2022, she has been pursuing her Doctorate in Musical Arts as a Dean’s Fellow at Peabody Conservatory at Johns Hopkins University, where she studies with Randall Scarlata. She graduates in May 2025.
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Whitman Fragments 1 & 2 (Stephen Gorbos) were premiered with the composer at the piano in April 2023. Songs 1-5 were premiered in January 2024 as part of a solo recital with Little City concert series in Falls Church, VA. 4 additional songs are currently in development.