Update: Abby was recently cast as Ursule in Harbor Opera's Spring 2008 production of Hector Berlioz's Beatrice et Benedict! Please visit Harbor Opera for ticket information.

Update: Abby is also one of 1 of 20 finalists in the Miss NYC Plus competition! For more information on this competition, visit Miss NYC Plus.

Abby Powell, mezzo-soprano

Abby Powell was born in Ohio in 1980 and studied voice at The Juilliard School in New York. While there, she was awarded the Rise Stevens Award in Voice, The G & M Grunin Prize, and the Loretta Lewis Award in Voice, among others.

Ms. Powell has sung under the batons of James Conlon, Julius Rudel, Harry Bickett, Steven Osgood, Richard Bado and Miguel Harth-Bedoya, to name a few. Her operatic roles have included Dido (Purcell's Dido and Aeneas), Mere Marie (Poulenc's Dialogues des Carmelites), Lyubasha (Rimsky-Korsakoff's The Tsar's Bride), Dorabella (Moazrt's Cosi Fan Tutte), Charlotte (Massenet's Werther), Miss Jessel (Britten's The Turn of the Screw) and Carmen (Bizet's Carmen).

She is a voice student of W. Stephen Smith and currently maintains her own voice studio in New York City.

Abby Powell, plus-size model and fashion editor

Abby began plus modeling in late 2006 when she saw the need for social change regarding what is deemed beautiful in this country. Inspired by the words Mahatma Ghandi, she believes we all must "be the change we wish to see." For more information on hiring Abby as a model, you may either contact her directly via email or through her agency. Abby is represented by the Goddess division of Model Service Agency (212-944-8896).

Abby is the New York Fashion Editor of Skorch Magazine, the #1 magazine for women sizes 12 and up. She has contributed numerous articles and spreads and also works as a stylist for performers in New York City.