Maribeth Crawford

Maribeth Crawford received her Bachelors in Vocal Performance at Mississippi College in Clinton, Mississippi. While at Mississippi College, Mrs. Crawford sang the roles of Susanna in The Marriage of Figaro, and Alice Ford in The Merry Wives of Windsor. Mrs. Crawford holds a Masters Degree in Vocal Performance from the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. At the conservatory, she sang the Sandman in Hansel and Gretel and Virginia Poe in the collegiate premiere of Argento’s The Voyage of Edgar Allen Poe.

As a young artist, Maribeth has worked with Opera in the Ozarks at Inspiration Point where she sang the roles of Musetta in La Boheme, Echo in Ariadne auf Naxos, and the Princess and the Nightingale in L’Enfant et les Sortileges. She has performed with the Lebanon Symphony Orchestra as the soprano soloist in Handel’s Messiah and with the Bowling Green Symphony Orchestra as Rosalia in Westside Story. She was also a young artist with the Natchez Festival of Music. Most recently, Mrs. Crawford sang the role of Peaches in Jerry Spring the Opera with Cincinnati’s New Stage Collective. In 2008-2009, Maribeth will be a singing artists for Cincinnati Opera’s educational outreach program.