Mary-Hollis Hundley has been lauded as a “stand out” with her “deft comic touches, sultry spirit and riveting soprano” (Richmond Times-Dispatch). Fresh off her first season on the roster of the Metropolitan Opera, covering Sister Catherine and Sister Lillian in Jake Heggie’s Dead Man Walking, Hundley kicked off her 2024-25 season as Lady Macbeth in Macbeth with Opera Orlando, her debut with the company. This season, she also performs the roles of Gertrude in Hänsel und Gretel with the Helena Symphony and Mother in Amahl and the Night Visitors with Dayton Opera, and sings as soprano soloist in a concert of “Beethoven Vocal Rarities” with the Amadeus Chamber Ensemble.

Last season, Hundley traveled to her hometown of Louisville, Kentucky for a recital featuring all Appalachian music, including two commissioned song cycles from Kentucky artists. She also reprised the role of Joella “Jo” Jenner in The Knock by composer Aleksandra Vrebalov and librettist Deborah Brevoort for Cincinnati Opera; a role she originally created for its world premiere on film with the Glimmerglass Festival in 2021.  In 2025, she makes her Central City Opera debut to reprise the role once more.

Hundley’s recent mainstage credits have included performing the roles of Kayla in Taking Up Serpents and Frau Schmidt in The Sound of Music with the Glimmerglass Festival, Freia in Dayton Opera’s Das Rheingold, Alecta in House of Orfeus with Opera Carolina, Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni with Arizona Opera, Die Aufseherin in Elektra with New York Dramatic Voices, Gertrud in Hänsel und Gretel with the Detroit Opera, Magda Sorel in Menotti’s The Consul and Meg Page in Vaughan William’s Sir John in Love with Bronx Opera, Helena in A Midsummer Night’s Dream with Virginia Opera, High Priestess in Aïda at Sarasota Opera, Musetta in La bohème with Tulsa Opera, and Vitellia in La clemenza di Tito at Opera in the Heights. Her other roles include Female Chorus (Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia), Governess (Britten’s The Turn of the Screw), and the title roles in Puccini’s Suor Angelica and Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta.

She has also enjoyed covering Christine Brewer in the title role of Ariadne auf Naxos at Kentucky Opera, Jennifer Rowley’s Medea in Mayr’s Medea in Corinto with Teatro Nuovo, and Susan Graham in the title role of Blitzstein’s Regina at Opera Theatre of Saint Louis.

Hundley has received awards from the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, George London Foundation, Gerda Lissner Young Artist Institute, and Sarasota Opera Guild. She was awarded First Place in the 2019 Brava! James M. Collier Vocal Competition and has received an Encouragement Award from the Wagner Society of New York. She was also awarded the Anna Case MacKay Memorial Award for Outstanding Apprentices after covering the title role in Janáček’s Jenůfa at the Santa Fe Opera.

Mary-Hollis Hundley holds degrees from Mannes College the New School for Music and the University of Kentucky.