Soprano Mary Hoskins has been hailed as a “standout” (The Opera Tattler) with a “big, silvery sound, which she sustains effortlessly across broad expanses of melody," (On a Pacific Aisle). Recently she performed with San Francisco Opera in the role of Berta in Il barbiere di Siviglia and the Vierte Magd in Elektra as well as covering Chrysothemis in the same production. Hoskins also performed Wolf's Italienisches Liederbuch  with baritone Olivier Zerouali and pianist Ji Youn Lee as part of The San Francisco Opera Centers' Schwabacher Recital Series. Last year with San Francisco Opera, Hoskins performed roles in Mozart’s Idomeneo and Jake Heggie and Terrence McNally’s Dead Man Walking, and covered Kitty Hart in Dead Man Walking and Second Flower Maiden in Parsifal. As a participant of the Merola Opera Program, she performed the title role in the final scene of Ariadne auf Naxos in the Schwabacher Summer Concert, as well as an excerpt from Fidelio and Strauss’showstopping aria “Zweite Brautnacht” from Die Ägyptische Helena for the Merola Grand Finale concert. Hoskins won first place at the 2024 Palm Springs Opera Guild Vocal Competition and in2022 and 2023 performed as a studio artist with Wolf Trap Opera, covering the title role of Pauline Viardot’s Cendrillon and performing in the festival’s 2020 recorded scenes concert as Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte, Mimì in La Bohème, Mary in Gregory Spears’ Fellow Travelers and the First Lady in Die Zauberflöte. Other notable roles include the title roles of Puccini’s Suor Angelica and Handel’s Theodora. She is a two-year alumna of Dolora Zajick’s Institute for Young DramaticVoices.