"A joy to listen to"
- Indie Opera
"when she is onstage, you know it."
"Cook is the kind of actress who, when she is on stage, you know it.
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All eyes are on her, and she achieves this not with tricks, flips, mugging or winks but with a presence that quietly states “I am here and you are going to watch me”.
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It was a commanding performance vocally and she showed that maturity and command of character that is sure to please audiences well into this century."
​-National Opera Association
About Lauren
Starting 2024, dynamic mezzo-soprano Lauren Cook returned to Arizona Opera to perform Berta in Joshua Borths and Roberto Kalb’s Il barbiere di Siviglia as well as Stéphano in Roméo et Juliette lead by Patricia Racette and Stephanie Rhodes Russell. Following, she made her debut with the Philadelphia Ballet performing as a featured soloist in their production of The Dream. Cook then made her debut with Salt Creek Song Festival performing the complete 12 Poems of Emily Dickinson by Aaron Copland, as well as Samuel Barber’s Nuvoletta. Over the summer, Cook was featured in concerts all over the east coast including several performances with OperaDelaware, Opera Philadelphia, and East Passyunk Opera Project.
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Other notable stage credits include Rosina (Il barbiere di Siviglia), Komponist (Ariadne auf Naxos), Poppea (L’incoronazione di Poppea), Mélisande (Impressions de Pelléas), Cherubino (Le nozze di Figaro), Hannah After (As One), Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (Scalia-Ginsburg), L’enfant (L’enfant et les sortilèges), Susanna (Le nozze di Figaro), Wellgunde (Das Rheingold), Tisbe (La Cenerentola), and Antonia (Man of La Mancha).
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Cook has performed as a soloist with Phoenix Symphony, Tulsa Symphony, the Albany Symphony Orchestra, and the Brooklyn Bluegrass Collective, as well as in selected concerts in Philadelphia’s Kimmel Center and Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts. Cook was also a featured soloist in Boston Symphony Hall in a gala hosted by Alan Cumming.
In the news.
“Mezzo-soprano Lauren Cook brought abundant personality, if not equal amplitude of vibrant tone.”
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Opera News
“Cook was very convincing as the bumbling, scared of his own shadow Cherubino."
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Digital Beat Magazine
2024 / 25
Starting the 24/25 season, Cook returned to the Academy of Music to perform Lee Ann and cover Theresa Alvarez in the US Premiere of Missy Mazzoli’s The Listeners with Opera Philadelphia. She then jumped in to perform her role debut as L’enfant in L’enfant et les sortilèges as a Guest Artist with Dickinson College. Closing out 2024, she performed as the Alto Soloist in Handel’s Messiah with members of the Tulsa Symphony.
Following, Cook performed as the Alto Soloist in Carol Barnett's The World Beloved: A Bluegrass Mass with the Brooklyn Bluegrass Collective. Cook then jumped in and made her company debut with Opera Columbus, performing Cherubino in her 4th production of Le nozze di Figaro. Starting the 25/26 season, Cook will perform Kate in Pirates of Penzance, in another company debut with Salt Marsh Opera.
