American Soprano Maureen O'Flynn garners enthusiastic praise from critics, peers and audiences on both sides of the Atlantic. Of her recent opening night performance of Romeo et Juliette at the Metropolitan Opera house, the New York Times says the soprano “won a deserved ovation from the audience” and Variety exclaims “...not only a superb technician, with the full coloratura arsenal at her disposal, but a sensitive interpreter...”. As one of Musical America's coveted “Artists to Watch,” Miss O'Flynn is also regarded as one of the finest interpreters of the role of Gilda in Rigoletto. She has performed the role with the Metropolitan Opera under the baton of Plácido Domingo, at the Arena di Verona, Covent Garden, La Fenice, Carlo Felice in Genoa, Teatro Massimo in Palermo, San Carlo in Naples, Houston Grand Opera, San Diego Opera, Opera Company of Philadelphia, New Israeli Opera, the Israel Philharmonic, and debuted with the role at the Dallas Opera, winning the company's Callas Award as 'Outstanding New Artist of the Year.’ Likewise, as a renowned Nanetta in Falstaff, she made her La Scala debut in a performance conducted by Riccardo Muti, which was recorded by SONY. Miss O'Flynn has appeared with the Metropolitan Opera several times as Violetta in La Traviata, a role she has also performed with the Hamburg Staatsoper, at the Palacio Festivales in Santander, Spain, with Portland Opera, and with the Dallas Symphony.

Miss O’Flynn was Mimi in La bohème with the Minnesota Orchestra in summer 2007 and opens the 2007-2008 season as Micaela in Carmen for the Portland Opera. She continues the season as Juliette in Roméo et Juliette in Montreal and as Leila in The Pearl Fishers in Miami. Engagements of Miss O’Flynn’s 2006-2007 season included Violetta in La Traviata at the Met Opera in the Parks, Marguerite in Faust with Portland Opera, Pat Nixon in Nixon in China with Cincinnati Opera, Amina in La Sonnambula with at the Teatro Cervantes in Santander, Elena in Donna del Lago with Minnesota Opera, and and opera gala for Opera Omaha.

Most recent engagements of Miss O’Flynn included the opening night performance of the Metropolitan Opera’s new production of Juliette in Romeo and Juliette opposite Ramon Vargas, Amina in La Sonnambula at the Opera de la Coruna and Donna Anna in Don Giovanni at the Santander Festival both in Spain, I Puritani at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, La Traviata for the Metropolitan Opera and Opera Company of Philadelphia, Konstanze in Abduction from the Seraglio with Opera Omaha, Hanna Glawari in The Merry Widow with Minnesota Opera, the title role in Lucia di Lammermoor in Trieste, Tokyo, and with Florida Grand Opera, her first 3 heroines in Les Contes d’Hofmann at Calgary Opera, Leila in The Pearl Fishers with the Michigan Opera Theatre, Micaela in Carmen with the Metropolitan Opera, the Soprano Soloist in Vaughn Williams A Sea Symphony with the Milwaukee Symphony, and Ravel's Scheherezade with the Bozeman Symphony.

Miss O’Flynn made her New York City Recital Debut at Carnegie Hall. She was heard as well in recital at the Wexford Festival and the Richard Tucker Gala Concert at Avery Fisher Hall, which was broadcast nationally on PBS and had an all-star cast including Barbara Dever, Denyce Graves, Jerry Hadley and Samuel Ramey for concert performances of Grand Opera's Greatest Hits with the Opera Company of Philadelphia, as well as Broadway’s Greatest Hits with Jerry Hadley with the Philadelphia Orchestra under the baton of Broadway great Paul Gemignani. She has also appeared in a gala concert with Nicola Ghiaurov, conducted by Riccardo Muti and has performed as the honored soloist for the televised Christmas Midnight Mass at New York City's famed St. Patrick's Cathedral. Miss O’Flynn has been heard in Gorecki's Symphony No. 3 with the Orchestra 2001 in Philadelphia, Rossini Stabat Mater with the Tokyo Shinsei Symphony, Amenaide in Tancredi at Carnegie Hall with the Opera Orchestra of New York, Mahler's Symphony No. 4 and Mozart's Exsultate, Jubilate!, Mass in C, Coronation Mass and Requiem Mass; Fauré's Requiem and Handel's Alexander's Feast, Judas Maccabeus and Psalm 112. Maureen O’Flynn has been awarded prizes by two of opera's most prestigious organizations, the Richard Tucker Foundation Grant and the Opera Index First Prize.

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