Biography

“The Maria Callas of American musical theater,” as Opera News has called her, referencing both her silken voice and dramatic, expressive intensity, Tony Award-nominated singer and actress Melissa Errico’s latest release is Two Spring Songs for Summer which features two classic songs, newly recorded in quarantine: Michel Legrand’s “You Must Believe In Spring”–including new lyrics specially written for Melissa by Alan and Marilyn Bergman–backed with Alec Wilder’s cult classic, “Blackberry Winter,” a ‘lost love’ song that captures a feeling of sudden emotional vertigo that we all know unexpectedly these days. Her recent album Sondheim Sublime, produced by Rob Mathes (Sting, Carly Simon, Rod Stewart), was released to critical acclaim, with The Wall Street Journal calling it “The best all-Sondheim album ever recorded.” In addition to Sondheim, nothing in her work has been more constant than her association with composer Michel Legrand. Having starred in his sole Broadway show, Amour in 2019, she was asked to write his eulogy by The New York Times–where she is a frequent contributor–and was then invited to become the sole American performer to participate in the extraordinary two-day memorial to Legrand held in April at Paris’ Le Grand Rex Theatre, work that led one critic to announce that, “Errico is, and will continue to be, the premier interpreter of the musical legacy of Michel Legrand.”