Amy Maude Helfer, American mezzo-soprano, is gaining attention as a versatile singing actor, especially noted for her comedic timing and "gorgeous voice." Recent operatic and oratorio credits include a title role debut as CARMEN in the European premiere of director Andrea DelGiudice’s acclaimed production at the Narnia Festival, DINAH (Trouble in Tahiti) with Boheme Opera NJ, VERA BORONEL (The Consul) and NANCY (Albert Herring) with Bronx Opera, BABA THE TURK (The Rake's Progress) with String Orchestra of Brooklyn, MERCÉDÈS (Carmen) with Opera Theater of Connecticut, FRADE (Mandelbaum’s The Dybbuk) at Queens College and Merkin Hall, alto soloist in Part One of Handel’s Messiah at Rutgers, and alto soloist in Haydn's Lord Nelson Mass with Manhattan Concert Productions at Carnegie Hall. Recent credits in operetta and musical theatre include MRS. LOVETT (Sweeney Todd) at the Hawaii Performing Arts Festival, soloist in Sondheim, Golden Age/ Bernstein and Cole Porter concerts with Opera Theater of Connecticut at the Sanibel Music Festival, TESSA (The Gondoliers), LADY ANGELA (Patience), MELISSA (Princess Ida), LEILA (Iolanthe), and KATE (The Pirates of Penzance) with New York Gilbert and Sullivan Players (NYGASP), soloist at Ivoryton Playhouse's summer cabaret series “Playhouse on the Shore,” PETRA (A Little Night Music) with Madison Lyric Stage, and PHOEBE (The Yeomen of the Guard) at Winter Opera Saint Louis. Appearances in the 2019-20 season included a title role debut as IOLANTHE with NYGASP at Kaye Playhouse, RUTH (The Pirates of Penzance) in her debut with Utopia Opera, a concert of operatic favorites with Athena Music Foundation at Zankel Hall, and reprising the roles of PITTI-SING at Kaye Playhouse and on tour with NYGASP, and KATE with NYGASP at Colorado Symphony.