soprano
RECORDING SESSION: “Steal Me Sweet Thief” from The Old Maid and the Thief by Gian Carlo Menotti
CONCERT: “Recordare” from Mozart’s Requiem, K.626
CONCERT: Concerts at Prince of Peace: Mårten Jansson, Requiem Novum (U.S. Premiere)
MUSIC VIDEO: So Smooth, So Sweet by Allen Sapp
MUSIC VIDEO: Yet, Though Thou Troublest Me by Allen Sapp
MUSIC VIDEO: Put Up Your Silks, by Allen Sapp
Performances
Chelsea will serve as Stage Director, Music Director, and Producer for Capital University’s Opera and Musical Theater production of Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi. Performances: March 13 at 6 PM and March 14 at 2 PM, in Mees Hall at Capital University Conservatory of Music. Click here for tickets!
News
Chelsea will perform vocal quartets from Verdi’s Rigoletto and Beethoven’s Fidelio with the Metropolitan Chamber Orchestra, with Carolyn Redman, Andy Blosser, and Robert Kerr, conducted by Luis Biava. The performance will be on May 3 at 3 PM at Ascension Lutheran Church, Columbus, OH.
Press
Chelsea Hart Melcher’s debut album So Smooth, So Sweet: Songs of Allen Sapp was among the albums featured in the Parma Recordings advertisement in the August and November 2025 issues of Gramophone Magazine!
Recordings
In June 2026, Chelsea will travel to Paris to record works of Libby Larsen, Mårten Jansson, and Alan Green at the Église de Bon Secours, Paris
Press
In conjunction with Chelsea’s Navona Records release So Smooth, So Sweet: Songs of Allen Sapp, Chelsea is featured in Navona’s “Inside Story”, profiling her career and work on the album.
Press
Chelsea and the artists behind So Smooth, So Sweet received acclaim in a recent Textura review: “Chelsea humanizes the composer’s material with her rich, resonant voice and her attention to phrasing and sensitivity to the shifting emotional currents of the songs are unfailing and impressive”.
“It has been such an incredible experience so far. I have grown in so many different aspects from my musical ability to my vocal range to my knowledge of music and all the way to my confidence as a person. It has changed so many aspects of my life. Her knowledge of music was so wide and so great but she also really cared about me as a person and really wanted to see me grow.”
Mariah S.
More Than
the Music:
Mentorship, Coaching, Teaching
As co-founder of the RED School of Music and director of Opera and Musical Theatre at Capital University, Chelsea is an experienced pedagogue at both the community and university levels. Through masterclasses, individual instruction, and her online academies, Chelsea lends her expertise to:
