ELSPETH FRANKS performs a wide array of operatic and concert roles throughout the mezzo, alto and soprano repertoires. She made her New York debut with the Mark Morris Dance Group as Commère, a role she is delighted to reprise. Named a Virginia Best Adams Fellow at the Carmel Bach Festival for 2002 and 2003, Ms. Franks returned there this summer as featured soprano soloist in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony and the seldom heard Trauer-Kantate. She made her European debut in 2004 in Haydn's Harmoniemesse in Munich, Prague, Budapest and Vienna. Ms. Franks was recently heard as the alto soloist in Bach's Mass in B Minor, St. Matthew Passion, and Bach's Mass in G Minor (with the San Francisco Bach Choir); Bach's Magnificat (with San Francisco Choral Society); and Verdi's Requiem (with the Berkeley Community Chorus and Orchestra). Other appearances have been with Sacramento Opera, Virginia Opera, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Fresno Philharmonic, Berkeley Symphony, Bear Valley Music Festival, San Luis Obispo Mozart Festival, Rogue Opera (OR), Rimrock Opera (MT), West Bay Opera, and Pocket Opera. Future performances include returns to Eugene Opera as Berta (Il barbiere di Siviglia), and as Hänsel in Humperdinck's Hänsel und Gretel; a Bach celebration concert with the Santa Rosa Symphony; Rossini's Stabat Mater with Sacramento Choral Society and Orchestra; and Mozart's Mass in C minor with Cantabile Choral Guild.