03/14/2026
🎉Meet the Director: Chelsea Hart Melcher 🎉
“Her voice is like a cello, with such a deep and beautiful resonance!” – Libby Larsen
“The climaxes are wonderfully secure and exciting to hear. . . and what is also wonderful is her dramatic involvement, which is total — she lives every line.” – Roger Pines (Lyric Opera of Chicago)
Chelsea Hart Melcher has been described as “cooly captivating,” “ethereal and sublime,” and “a woman to be reckoned with” onstage. A national finalist in Sherrill Milnes’ “Opera Idol” competition, Melcher earned a Performance Diploma from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, a Master of Music from The Ohio State University, and a Bachelor of Music from Central Michigan University. She has worked with numerous symphonies and opera companies across the nation, and was the soprano soloist for the American premiere of Requiem Novum by Mårten Jansson. Melcher has also performed as soloist in Verdi’s Requiem, Strauss’ Vier Letzte Lieder, Handel’s Messiah, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, Mass in C and Choral Fantasy, Mahler’s Second Symphony, Dan Forrest’s Requiem for the Living, Michael Haydn’s Requiem in C, Mozart’s Requiem and Coronation Mass, and others. Her operatic roles include Micaëla and Frasquita in Carmen, Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte, Valencienne in The Merry Widow, Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni, Mimi and Musetta in La Bohème, Violetta and Annina in La Traviata, Nedda in I Pagliacci, Maria in The Sound of Music, Adina in L’Elisir d’amore, Suor Genovieffa in Suor Angelica, Butterfly in Madama Butterfly, Norina in Don Pasquale, Mariuccia in I Due Timidi, Female Chorus in The R**e of Lucretia, Lauretta in Gianni Schicchi, and Papagena in Die Zauberflöte. Melcher is director of Opera and Musical Theater at the Capital University Conservatory of Music, and serves on the faculty of Columbus Children’s Theatre. She is the Founder of Vocal Career Academy and Nerves Be Gone Academy, and Co-Founder with her husband Paul Melcher of Red School of Music in suburban Columbus.
Come see our last show at 2pm today!
