The American mezzo-soprano Elizabeth DeShong regularly appears on major opera and concert stages across the United States and Europe, including the Metropolitan Opera New York, San Francisco Opera, Chicago Lyric Opera, Los Angeles Opera, Dallas Opera, English National Opera, the Bavarian and Vienna State Operas, as well as the festivals in Glyndebourne and Aix-en-Provence. Her repertoire includes roles such as Angelina ("La Cenerentola"), Calbo ("Maometto II"), Arsace ("Semiramide"), Rosina ("Il barbiere di Siviglia"), Hermia ("A Midsummer Night’s Dream"), Hänsel ("Hänsel und Gretel"), Maffio Orsini ("Lucrezia Borgia"), Fenena ("Nabucco"), Suzuki ("Madama Butterfly"), Fricka ("Das Rheingold"), Dorabella ("Così fan tutte"), as well as the dresser, the schoolboy and the page in Alban Berg’s "Lulu". In 2010 she was honored with the Artist of the Year Award by the Washington National Opera for her portrayal of the Composer in Strauss’s "Ariadne auf Naxos". In the concert field she has appeared with the Philadelphia Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Houston Symphony and The English Concert, among others. Her recording of Handel’s "Messiah" with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra was released on Chandos and was nominated for two Grammy Awards in 2018. Most recently, she has sung Azucena ("Il trovatore") at the Stuttgart State Opera, Medoro ("Orlando") at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, Octavia in John Adams’s "Antony and Cleopatra" at the Metropolitan Opera, a concert performance of Beethoven’s "Missa solemnis" at La Scala in Milan, and Ulrica ("Un ballo in maschera") at Teatro San Carlo in Naples.