A 2023 Sullivan Foundation Career Grant recipient, Soprano Mary Evelyn Hangley is a graduate of San Francisco Opera’s prestigious Adler Fellowship, where she covered numerous leading roles, including the title role of Rusalka, Contessa Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro, as well as Micaëla in Carmen. She made her San Francisco Opera debut as the Mother in Hansel and Gretel, which she was praised for "...[showing] confidence and vocal security in her unexpected San Francisco Opera debut, which proceeded flawlessly.”

In 2023, Mary Evelyn saw a triumphant debut as A Woman in Schoenberg’s masterpiece Erwartung with West Edge Opera, for which The San Francisco Chronicle praised her “incendiary brilliance” and “[her] singing, moreover — bright, luxuriant and fearlessly on point — was a marvel.”

Career highlights include Beethoven’s 9th Symphony with the San Francisco Symphony, a Schwabacher Debut Recital with San Francisco Opera, Anna Sørensen in Silent Night with The Glimmerglass Festival, Leonora in Il trovatore at Opera San Jose, Contessa Almaviva, Woglinde and Musetta with Minnesota Opera, Pamina and Mozart’s Requiem with the Buffalo Philharmonic, and the title role in Prokofiev’s Maddalena at Berkeley Chamber Opera. She has also sung with the Oakland Symphony, Sacramento Philharmonic and the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra, among others.