This fall, I got to live my dream of singing Rosalinde in Die Fledermaus . The reason why this is so special to me is because there are so few roles written for sopranos that are comedic. I remember my opera director in graduate school at the University of Oregon, Doug Webster, told me that my gift was comedy. Finally, I got to really explore this in a soprano role! While the dialogues were in English, all the singing was in German, and it was a mouthful! I had a lot of fun w

This spring I had the opportunity to sing Euridice in Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice . The best part of this was the people - since it is not a long opera and there are only three characters, we had really lovely rehearsals getting to know each other and singing together. Musically, I enjoyed working on the recitative the most, followed by the duet with Orfeo. This is an interesting myth, isn't it? How do we trust that someone truly loves us, especially when they behave as though

Jouvenot in Adriana Lecouvreur with New York Opera Forum. I was happy to learn such a fun, short, effervescent role in such an otherwise...