An alumnus of the 2021-2022 Chrisman Studio Artist program with Opera Santa Barbara and a three-time Opera Buffs grant recipient. Highlight engagements include Renata in Cruzar la Cara de la Luna in her mainstage debut with Opera Santa Barbara, Marcellina with the 2021 International Summer Opera Festival of Morelia where she studied with superstar Soprano, Jennifer Rowley, the role debut of Frida Kahlo in Frida with the 2019 Opera Steamboat Summer Intensive, Prince Orlofsky in Vienna, Austria with the 2019 Vienna Summer Music Festival and as Marcellina with the 2018 Prague Summer Nights Festival, in collaboration with world-renowned tenor, Lawrence Brownlee and contralto, Rosalind Plowright.
She has sung the roles of Peggy in Lee Hoiby’s This is the Rill Speaking, Suor Dolcina in Suor Angelica, the Third Witch in Verdi’s Macbeth, in The Merry Widow as Olga, Praskowia and Zozo, Antonia’s Mother and Nicklausse in The Tales of Hoffman and as Hansel in Hansel and Gretel. She performed the role of Nancy in Albert Herring as part of the LA Opera Britten/100 celebration with the Repertory Opera Company. She made her Chicago debut in the 2015 Chicago Summer Opera Program, in the role of Hippolyta, Queen of the Amazons in Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
After making her debut with the Redlands Opera Theatre as Siebel in their production of Faust, she was featured as a Resident Artist for their 2016-2017 season in the roles of La Ciesca in Gianni Schicchi and Mercedes in Carmen.
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