Appearing as the featured
soloist with numerous orchestras, some of Ms.
Watson’s favorite highlights include A Salute to
Andrew Lloyd Webber, Irving Berlin Classics, A
Jellicle Night-Cats in Concert, Mary Poppins-In
Concert, A Salute to Gershwin, Broadway’s Best and
An Evening of Gilbert and Sullivan. Margo Watson has
also performed numerous times with the Utah Symphony
in concerts as soloist in Messiah, the music
of Lerner and Lowe, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Leonard
Bernstein and classic Viennese favorites.
She enjoyed similar success
singing the soloing in Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony
with the National Repertory Symphony of
Colorado; On Broadway with the Cleveland Pops
Orchestra and Toledo Symphony; Porgy and Bess in the
title role with the American West Symphony, and the
Western premier of Daniel Gawthorp’s Behold the
Miracle in the Mormon Tabernacle in Salt Lake
City, Utah. Recently, Ms. Watson performed in the
Mozart Festival in Salzburg, Austria while
performing in concerts throughout Germany as a
requested artist. She received
critical acclaim for her performance of selections
from Samson, Die Zaüberflöte, Susannah, La Traviata,
Porgy and Bess and Die Fledermaus in
Hawaii. The Maui Sentinel reviewer said, “her
inspired selection of arias demonstrated the
soprano’s range and versatility... Sung effortlessly
through complex high notes and musical patterns.”
A few of Margo Watson’s
theatrical roles include Die Zaüberflöte (Pamina);
Die Fledermaus (Adele); The Secret Garden (Lily);
Mikado (Yum Yum); Pirates of Penzance (Mabel); Hello
Dolly (Dolly); The King and I (Anna); The Music Man
(Marian); My Fair Lady (Eliza); Guys and Dolls
(Sarah Brown), Annie (Grace Farrell), The Sound of
Music (Maria); and Phantom (Christine). The review
of her most performance in Phantom said, “perfectly
cast as Christine, operatically trained Margo
Watson, did a magnificent job.”
Margo Watson had a
successful US tour and album release as the leading
role in the original musical Charly." She later
toured with her sisters nationwide and released a
Christian Country album called “Three Again.” They
frequently fronted Country Music Awards’ Group of
the Year, “Diamond Rio.” She has toured
internationally in Good Will Performing Groups
to India , Nepal ,Philippines , Sri
Lanka , Spain and Europe and thoroughly enjoyed
working for Disney World as An All-American
Singer/Dancer.
Ms. Watson’s other performance
expertise includes broadcasting, where she has been
the principal talent in numerous national
commercials, movies, infomercials and local
programming. She was Mrs. Utah and Mrs.
International in 1995 while mother of four talented
children. Margo's most recent CD called
“Always…Broadway” containing Broadway's favorite
tunes is
available during intermission or on her website margowatson.org,
where samples of her cd may be heard. She is
thrilled to work again with the unparalleled
performer Gregg Busch and Maestro Carl Topilow.