Studio Opera

Selected artists-in-residence will be performing shortened versions of each opera in inner city schools, hospitals, nursing homes, among other locations. Many of the artists-in-residence will be chosen to participate in nine to twelve hours of master classes. Each singer participating in the master classes will perform in the final concert at Symphony Space. Selected singers will also cover leading roles and participate in ensembles for the mainstage productions.

Artist-in-Residence Concerts

	Madame Goldentrill	Juliana Lima
	Miss Silverpeal	Marie Putko
	Mr. Angel	Dorian Balis

Act I
	“Die schlägt die Abschieds-stunde…”	Madame Goldentrill
	“Bester Jüngling!”	Miss Silverpeal
	“Ich bin die erste Sängerin…”	Miss Silverpeal, Mr. Angel,
		Madame Goldentrill

	Suor Angelica	Shannon D. Levy
	Princess	Nadine Kulberg
	Sister Osmina	Margaret Meyer
	Sister Dolcina	Margaret Meyer
	The Abbess	Milica Nikcevic
	Monitress	Milica Nikcevic
	Mistress of Novices	Nadine Kulberg
	Sister Genovieffa	Lauren Alfano
	The Alms Sister	Jenne Carey
	A Novice Soprano	Jenne Carey
	Lay Sister	Jenne Carey

Pandolfe

Michael Celentano

Noèmie

Yolanda F. Johnson

Dorothée

Vivian Borghese Holfeld

La Fée

Shauna McCarthy

Cendrillon (Lucette)

Nanae Soma

Madame de la Haltière

Maria Oesterreich

Le Prince Charmant

Tara Gruszkiewicz

Act I

	“Faites-vous très belles ce soir…”	Mme. de la Haltière, Noémie and Dorothée
	“Ah! Douce enfant…”	La Fée

Act II
	“Allez, laissez-moi seul…”	Le Prince Charmant
	“Toi qui m’es apparue…”	Le Prince Chamant, Cendrillon

Act III
	“Enfin, je suis ici…”	Cendrillon
	“C’est vrai! C’est vrai!”	Mme. de la Haltière, Noémie and Dorothée Pandolfe
	“Ah! Maman! Ah! Maman!”	Mme. de la Haltière, Noémie and Dorothée
		Pandolfe, Cendrillon
	“Afin qu’ils ne puissant se voir…”	La Fée
	“À deux genoux, Bonne Marraine…”	Cendrillon, Le Prince Charmant, La Fée

Act IV
	“Possez dans son écrin…”	Le Prince Charmant, La Fée, Cendrillon,
		Pandolfe, Mme. de la Haltière

KEITH CHAMBERS (Conductor, Artist-in-Residence Cover Coach & Performance Pianist)

Conductor Keith Chambers was appointed Assistant Conductor of New York City Opera in 2007 and is Director of the Victoria J. Mastrobuono Emerging Artist Program & Chorus Master for Opera New Jersey. He has conducted Tosca for Amarillo Opera, Roméo et Juliette for Asheville Lyric Opera, The Station for Sugar Land Opera, New York Lyric Opera (Le nozze di Figaro, Rigoletto, Hansel & Gretel), The Living Opera (Hansel and Gretel, Le nozze di Figaro, Don Pasquale, & The Pirates of Penzance), Halifax Summer Opera (Giulio Cesare), Moores Opera Center (Die Fledermaus & La finta giardiniera), Martha Cardona Theater (Gianni Schicchi) and Opera in the Ozarks (Don Giovanni & L’elisir d’amore). He has served on faculty of the Seattle Opera Young Artist Program and the RESONANZ Festival. Mr. Chambers is the past Artistic Director of The Living Opera and Chorus Master/Music Director of Shreveport Opera. Additional performances include Toledo Opera, Connecticut Opera, American Opera Projects, and American Lyric Theater. He has appeared as concerto soloist with the Delaware Symphony, Clear Lake Symphony, and Naples Philharmonic, and often performs with his wife, dramatic soprano Kirsten Chambers. During the 2011-12 season, he conducts Tosca for the Martha Cardona Theater and The Poe Project for American Lyric Theater.

Described by the San Francisco Chronicle as "...an exceptional pianist" and called "a musician to watch" by San Francisco Classical Voice, Leesa Dahl is enjoying a busy career as a collaborative artist to the emerging stars of her generation. In recent seasons she has played for the New York Philharmonic, New York City Ballet, and enjoys a relationship with the Mark Morris Dance Group. Ms. Dahl has performed and coached at the Juilliard School, Manhattan School of Music, Mannes College, and the Opera Studio at Yale. She has worked with Gotham Chamber Opera, American Lyric Theater, Fort Worth Opera, and Glimmerglass Opera. In past summers, she has been a coach for the Aspen Opera Theater Center, Boston University Tanglewood Institute, and BASOTI. During the summers of 2001 and 2004, she was an Apprentice Coach in the prestigious Merola Opera Program. She subsequently appeared as harpsichordist in the nationwide tour of Cosi fan tutte with Western Opera Theater, and as an artist with San Francisco Opera Center. In the Bay Area, Ms. Dahl was recognized for her dedication to performances of new music, and premiered works by composers such as Heggie, Imbrie, Conte, Perle, and Lou Harrison.

Winner of the 2010 Los Angeles Liszt International Piano Competition, Mr. Wei-En Hsu, pianist, organist, conductor, répétiteur and composer, is now having a busy performing career throughout the States, Europe, and Asia. A native of Taiwan, he received his BFA degree in Piano at Taipei National University of the Arts, and was pleased to be the only candidate at Juilliard selected to Royal Academy of Music, London as an exchange student. Mr. Hsu is the winner of many awards, recently including Scott Huxley Piano Accompaniment Prize, Major Van Someren-Godfery Prize Accompaniment Award (2004), Ludmilla Andrew Russian Song Prize Accompaniment Award, Sir Arthur Bliss Prize (2005), as well as a Distinction Performance Award from RAM. He is on vocal coaching faculty in SongFest since 2010, and is now the music director for Pocket Opera of New York. This season, he will make his debut with the National Chorale on Carmina Burana at Avery Fischer Hall, and will be assisting Greg Buchalter (MET Opera) on the American premier of Mercadante: I due Figaro with Amore Opera.

Soprano, Lauren Alfano has performed extensively as an oratorio soloist. She was a Resident Artist with the Underworld Productions Opera Ensemble, and sings with the Satori Opera Company, New York Lyric Opera Theatre, and the Opera Company of Brooklyn. Ms. Alfano premieres works by composers from the United States, Europe, and Russia and performed at the “Music With a View” Festival in New York City. Recent and upcoming performances include Cosi fan tutte (Despina), La Sonnambula (Lisa), Alcina (Morgana), Don Giovanni (Zerlina), and two operatic premieres.

Dorian Balis performed Orombello in West Side Opera Society’s Beatrice di Tenda. Additional roles: Don Pasquale (Ernesto), Armida (Gernando and Carlo) and Semiramide (Idreno), The Turn of the Screw (Peter Quint), The Merry Widow (Camille), Beauty and the Beast (Gardiner) at Dicapo Opera Theatre, and Yale Freshman in Paul’s Case with American Opera Projects. He understudied the role of Grivet Thérèse Raquin, and performed the leading role in A Story of Three Women, at Kaye Playhouse in NYC. He was an Apprentice at Dicapo Opera Theatre and Ash Lawn Opera.

Vivian Borghese Holfeld, born in Wilmington, Delaware, is the youngest of five children. She inherited her passion and talent for music from her mother, Joan Borghese. Vivian’s musical journey has taken her on the stage of Delaware’s local opera venue, Opera Delaware; The Cincinnati Metropolitan Orchestra; The Cincinnati Opera; The Cincinnati Showboat Majestic; The Seven Hills Sinfonietta; TheTuscia Opera Festival; and Downtown Disney in Orlando, FL. She has trained with some of the world’s finest talents including Metropolitan Opera’s famed baritone Sherrill Milnes.

Soprano, Gabriella Maria Campos has performed Alma Mater (Little Women), Echo (Ariadne auf Naxos), Guillemo (Le Mariage aux Lanternes), Marcellina (The Marriage of Figaro), Ottavia (The Coronation of Poppea) and the 2^nd Lady (The Magic Flute). With the Intermezzo Foundation, Ms. Campos has appeared in productions of Little Women, Ariadne auf Naxos, Les Bavards and Le Mariage aux Lanternes. Ms. Campos has also been featured as a soloist in orchestral works and oratorio including Saint-Saëns Christmas Oratorio, Carl Orff Carmina Burana, Bach Magnificat in D, and Christ lag in Todes Banden, Mozart Requiem, and Solemni Vespers.

Jenne Carey is currently pursuing a Master of Music degree at Westminster Choir College in Voice Performance and Pedagogy. She performed the leading roles of Yum-Yum in the Mikado and Serpina in La Serva Padrona. She was a soloist with Westminster Opera Theater, Westminster Kantorei, Kinnara Ensemble and Opera New Jersey. She was a Resident Artist with Underworld Productions Opera and appeared in a New York staged premiere. Ms. Carey has presented concerts in Canada and Japan and has toured Europe and Israel as a member of the World Youth Choir.

Michael Celentano made his New York Lyric Opera Theatre debut last season as the Father in Hansel and Gretel. Past performances in the Manhattan area include the Imperial Commissioner in Madama Butterfly with Bleecker Street Opera, Papageno in Die Zauberflöte with New York Opera Studio, and Morales in Carmen with Capitol Heights Lyric Opera. Mr. Celentano is currently a senior Music Performance Major at SUNY Potsdam: Crane School of Music and a student of Dr. Boris Loushin.

Tara Gruszkiewicz holds a Masters in Voice at Manhattan School of Music. At MSM, she appeared as Maman/La tasse chinoise/La libelulle in L'enfant et les sortileges, Teseo in scenes from Arianna in Creta, and in Manuel de Falla's El Amor Brujo/La Vida Breve. In her under-graduate years at Manhattanville College, Ms. Gruszkiewicz was the soloist in Saint-Saens' Christmas Cantata, Pergolesi's Stabat Mater, Handel's Messiah, Faure's Messe basse and Haydn's Missa in tempore belli. Additional roles: Miss Todd in The Old Maid and the Thief and Nettie in Carousel.

Yolanda F. Johnson is a performing artist, music educator, and arts supporter. She performed the role of Anita Hill in Clarence and Anita with Underworld Productions Opera Outreach. She holds both bachelor’s and master’s degrees in vocal performance and arts management. She has performed in several musical venues in the United States and internationally, including opera, concert, oratorio and sacred music and is an active recitalist/lecturer on many musical subjects, most notably, her concert/lecture on African-American spirituals, A Spirituals Experience.

Mezzo, Nadine Kulberg, completed a Master of Music in Opera at SUNY Purchase, where she performed six opera roles. As an undergraduate, she sang the title role of Carmen and Maddelena in Rigoletto. She has collaborated with Berkshire Opera Company, Lake George Opera, and the Fanfare Consort. Earlier this summer, she performed Schubert’s song cycle Die schöne Müllerin at two historical venues. She has presented concerts of art songs and staged opera scenes throughout the Northeast, and is currently a frequent soloist at Trinity Presbyterian Church in Rye, New York.

Budding soprano, Shannon D. Levy has been described as “the spirited Shannon Levy” by the Metropolitan Opera's Opera News for her lively performance as Annie in New Jersey State Opera's 2010 production of Porgy & Bess. In 2009, Ms. Levy performed the title role in Suor Angelica with Michigan Opera Theater's Learning at the Opera House program, where she was praised for her warm tone and emotional intensity. Additional roles: Liù (Turandot), La Contessa Almaviva (Le nozze di Figaro), Cio-Cio San (Madama Butterfly), and Rosalinda (Die Fledermaus).

Soprano, Julia Lima is making her debut with the New York Lyric Opera Theatre in the role of Madame Goldentrill. She is a graduate of the State Musical College named after Gnessins (Russia, Moscow). She is a master level sport of gymnastics. Awards included: regional competition of young talents of Gazprom Company (the Grand Prix), international competition "Bella voce" (the 1^st prize), all-Russian competition "Festos" (the 1st prize),"International Festival of Arts in Yalta " (the 1st prize).

Soprano, Shauna McCarthy sings Madame Herz (Der Schauspieldirektor) and Atalanta (Serse) with New York Opera Forum. Roles: Gilda (Rigoletto), Donna Anna (Don Giovanni), Juliette (Roméo et Juliette), Marguerite (Faust), Musetta (La bohème), Sophie (Der Rosenkavalier), Lauretta (Gianni Schicchi), Susanna (Le nozze di Figaro), Despina (Così fan tutte), Sandman (Hansel and Gretel). Companies: The New York Lyric Opera Theatre, The New Israeli Opera, Tanglewood Music Festival, Karlovy Vařy (Karlsbad) Symphony Orchestra, Opera Aegean-MidAmerica Prod.

Margaret Meyer is an active soprano in the New York City area. This summer she sang Ännchen (Der Freischütz) with New York Summer Opera Scenes and next year will be performing Giulietta (I Capuleti e i Montecchi), Norina (Don Pasquale), Susanna (Le nozze di Figaro), and Adina (L'elisir d'amore). She has been the soprano soloist in Mozart’s Mass in C minor, the Messiah, Brahms’ Ein deutsches Requiem, and Mozart’s Exsultate, jubilate. Her operatic roles include Gretel (Hansel und Gretel), Zerlina (Don Giovanni), and Ciesca (Gianni Schicchi).

Milica Nikcevic has been called, "a powerful performer with an exquisite sense of character and depth of portrayal." She currently studies with world renowned vocal pedagogue David L. Jones. Milica has recorded and performed in diverse settings, including New York City, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and Greece. Ms. Nikcevic performed her first international recital in the Republic of Montenegro in 2006 and will be returning for another concert in 2011.

Maria Oesterreich is returning to New York Lyric Opera Theatre with the role of Madame which she performed in our mainstage production last February. Ms. Oesterreich’s previous New York City performances include work with the dell’Arte Opera Ensemble in several productions, including taking the role of Flora in La Traviata. This coming season Ms. Oesterreich will be a resident artist with Dicapo Opera Theater.

From Seoul, Korea, baritone Donghyun Park made his Carnegie Hall debut as Bretigny in Massenet’s Manon with New York Lyric Opera Theatre in 2009. His recent New York performance includes Don Giovanni with Dell’Arte Opera Ensemble. He also performed a principle role in the premiere of Italian composer Bruno Rigacci’s Opera Dodici personage in cerca di voce in Chiari, Italy last summer, and appeared as Gregorio in Roméo et Juliette by Gounod in 2009 with us. He performed Monterone in Rigoletto with the Beecker Street Opera as well Escamillo in Carmen with the New York Lyric Opera Theatre at Symphony Space.

Soprano, Marie Putko is a second year Masters candidate (Vocal Performance) at New York University. She received her B.A. from Providence College in Vocal Performance in 2010. Ms. Putko performed Belinda (Dido and Aeneas), Amahl (Amahl and the Nightvisitors), and Sarah (Company) at Providence Smith Center for the Performing Arts. Additional performances include Brahms’ Liebeslieder Waltzes and Die Fledermaus at New York University. She served as the assistant conductor at Providence College and was a featured soloist in the Bach Festival.

Sarah Sensenig, soprano, was a finalist at the 2011 Teaneck Opera Competition, a winner of the Renee Fleming Award and the Eastman Concerto Competition. She has appeared as Valencienne in The Merry Widow, Cherubino in The Marriage of Figaro, Nancy in Albert Herring, Hansel in Han-sel and Gretel, and Dido in Dido and Aeneas. Her summer programs include Aspen Music Festival, Spoleto Festival USA, and the Chautauqua Institute Voice Program. Ms. Sensenig holds a masters degree from Eastman School of Music and a bachelors degree from Westminster Choir College.

Nanae Soma is the first singer to receive a scholarship from the Seiji Ozawa Opera Project, for the purpose of studying at the Metropolitan Opera. She performed the role of Fiordiligi in Cosi Fan Tutte in its production with conductor Seiji Ozawa in Japan. Roles include: Mimi (La Bohème), Vio-letta (La Traviata) and The First Lady (Die Zauberflöte).Concert works: Mozart’s Coronation Mass, Händel’s Messiah, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 and Dvorak’s Mass in D. She holds a Bachelor’s degree and a Master’s degree in voice from the Tokyo University of the Arts.

	MOZART:	“Ah! Fuggi il traditor…” (Don Giovanni)
		— Kimberly Walton —
	MOZART:	“Voi che sapete…” (Le Nozze di Figaro)
		— Eva Parr —
	MOZART:	“Bester Jüngling…” (Der Schauspieldirektor)
		— Annabelle Han —
	TBA:	“TBA” (TBA)
		— Kristin Renee Young —
	WERTHER:	“Va! Laisse couler mes larmes…” (Werther)
		— Eva Parr —
	GOUNOD:	“Je veux vivre…” (Roméo et Juliette)
		— Annabelle Han —
	TBA:	“TBA” (TBA)
		— Kristin Renee Young —
	MOORE:	“The Silver Aria…” (Ballad of Baby Doe)
		— Jane Pappas —
	ROSSINI:	“Sombre forêt…” (Guillaume Tell)
		— Kaliroi Tsamboukos —
	SCHUMAN:	“Kiss Me Not Goodbye…” (The Mighty Casey)
		— Kimberly Walton —
	PUCCINI:	“Senza Mamma…” (Suor Angelica)
		— Shannon D. Levy —
	PUCCINI:	“Donde lieta…” (La Bohème)
		— Kaliroi Tsamboukos —
	PUCCINI:	“Quando me’n vo’…” (La Bohème)
		— Jane Pappas —
	PUCCINI:	“Tu che di gel…” (Turandot)
		— Shannon D. Levy —

Maestro Keith Chambers was appointed Assistant Conductor of New York City Opera in 2007 and is Music Director of the Emerging Artist Program & Chorus Master for Opera New Jersey. He has conducted Tosca for Amarillo Opera, Roméo et Juliette for Asheville Lyric Opera, The Station for Sugar Land Opera, The Living Opera (Hansel and Gretel, Le Nozze di Figaro, Don Pasquale, & The Pirates of Penzance), Halifax Summer Opera (Giulio Cesare), Moores Opera Center (Die Fledermaus & La finta giardiniera), and Opera in the Ozarks (Don Giovanni & L’elisir d’amore). He serves on faculty of the Seattle Opera Young Artist Program and is also a Program Director of the RESONANZ Festival. Maestro Chambers is the past Artistic Director of The Living Opera and Chorus Master/Music Director of Shreveport Opera. Additional appearances include performances with Toledo Opera, Connecticut Opera, American Opera Projects, and American Lyric Theater. He has appeared as concerto soloist with the Delaware Symphony, Clear Lake Symphony, and Naples Philharmonic, and often performs with his wife, dramatic soprano Kirsten Chambers. He begins the 2010-11 season at Toledo Opera with Ariadne auf Naxos and conducts Gianni Schicchi for the Martha Cardona Theater.

Maestro, Jay Meetze is lauded for his “passionate and undeniably impressive command of performances” and “sympathetic leadership of the forces of the OCB.” (Opera News). He founded Opera Company of Brooklyn in 2000 and serves as the Artistic and Music Director. His innovative vision for opera is featured on the Jeopardy quiz show, Good Morning America with “MythBusters”, CNN’s “Tips from the Top”, ZDF (German Public TV), other favorable coverage include numerous reports on radio: National Public Radio’s Day to Day, American Public Media’s Marketplace, 1010WINS, WNYC’s Overnight Music and Soundcheck, and reviews and articles (some front-page and full-page) in: Wall Street Journal, NY Times, NY Daily and NY Post newspaper, NY Magazine, Life, American Record Guide, Opera News Magazine, Crain’s New York Business, Classical Singer Magazine, Frommer’s and two arts administration books. Metropolitan Opera’s Opera News magazine named his CD “BEST OF THE YEAR” and “CRITIC’S CHOICE,” recorded on Albany Records and features music by and with Thomas Pasatieri, whose many film orchestrations include Finding Nemo, Little Mermaid, Shawshank Redemption, American Beauty.

Tony Bellomy studied piano with Vengerova prodigy, Judit Jaimes, and holds degrees in both piano performance and vocal accompanying/opera coaching. He has coached and played for the Florentine Opera and the Skylight Opera Theatre, both of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. From 2002 to 2006 Tony was also a visiting faculty member of the Black Hills Summer Institute of the Arts in Spearfish, South Dakota, with soprano Johanna Meier and tenor and conductor, John Stewart. Since moving to New York in 2005, he has coached and assisted for the Little Opera Theatre of New York, New Jersey Verrismo Opera, Encompass New Opera Theatre and dell’Arte Opera Ensemble. As a recitalist, Tony has appeared widely throughout the US with such singers as Kurt Ollmann, Darryl Taylor and Kitt Reuter Foss. Tony also has a great love of choral music. He has worked under such great choral conductors as Sir David Willcocks and Helmuth Rilling and since 2008 has been the Associate Conductor for the Grace Choral Society of New York.

Melissa Chan D’Estrella is regularly featured in concert and opera performances in the New York area and abroad. In her previous life as a soprano, Melissa performed leading roles in Le Nozze di Figaro, La Traviata, Dialogues des Carmelites, and Alcina. In 2010, Melissa made her debut as a mezzo-soprano singing Wellgunde in New York Opera Forum’s Das Rheingold and covering the roles of Mercèdes and Hansel in New York Lyric Opera Theater’s Carmen and Hansel & Gretel. Recent accomplishments include an international debut in at the Esplanade in Singapore.

Annabelle Han performed leading roles with opera companies in Los Angeles. Roles include: Olympia, Queen of the Night, Gilda, and Zerlina. Her performances were highly acclaimed by critics. She has performed with European orchestras in Seoul, Korea. She received her Master of Music with Honors from The California State University Los Angeles. Awards: Lu Elrod/Snyder Scholarship, Cal Grants, The Young-Nak Scholarship, and two-time Special Recognition Award from The Honors’ Convocation, & Winner of the Opera Reading Club Competition.

Margaret Meyer received her Master’s degree from McGill University and studies with Ruth Golden of the Academy of Vocal Arts. Upcoming: Ännchen (Die Freischütz) with New York Summer Opera Scenes, Giulietta (I Capuleti e i Montecchi), Norina (Don Pasquale), Susanna (Le Nozze di Figaro), and Adina (L'elisir d'amore). She was the soloist in Mozart’s Mass in C minor, the Messiah, Brahms’ Ein deutsches Requiem, and Mozart’s Exsultate, jubilate. Roles: Zerlina (Don Giovanni), Ciesca (Gianni Schicchi), and the title role in Cavalli’s Calisto.

Most recently, the budding soprano, Shannon D. Levy, was described as “the spirited Shannon Levy” by the Metropolitan Opera's Opera News for her lively performance as “Annie” in New Jersey State Opera's 2010 production of Porgy & Bess. Ms. Levy performed the title role in Suor Angelica with Michigan Opera Theater's Learning at the Opera House program where she was praised for her warm tone and emotional intensity. Other roles include: Liù (Turandot), La Contessa Almaviva (Le Nozze di Figaro), Cio-Cio San (Madama Butterfly), and Rosalinda (Die Fledermaus).

Jane Pappas is a soprano who recently completed The Martina Arroyo Foundation's Role Preparation Program. She performed with the New York Lyric Opera Theater as the 1st Spirit in Die Zauberflote and graduated in October 2010 with a Masters of Music in Classical Vocal Performance from New York University. She holds a Bachelor's of Arts in French from Columbia University, where she was a member of the Columbia Bach Society. She was accepted to Juilliard with Presidential Distinction in 2004 and spent two years in the Juilliard- Columbia Exchange Program.

Lazarita Carmen Perez holds a BM Vocal Performance from Hunter College. She performed the Third Spirit in Die Zauberflöte with us this past season. She is set to portray Ellen Orford in Peter Grimes, Prince Orlofsky in Die Fledermaus, Countess in Marriage of Figaro and Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni in scenes this summer at Land of Enchantment Opera in New Mexico. Upon her return, she continues her graduate studies in opera at NYU. She is currently a student of Catherine Malfitano at Manhattan School of Music’s Summer Voice Festival.

Contralto, Heather Petrie, holds a B.A. in Voice from Bard College and a M.M. in Opera from SUNY Purchase Conservatory of Music. Venues: The American Symphony Orchestra, Westchester Philharmonic and the New Haven and Hartford Symphonies. Roles include: Marcellina (Le Nozze di Figaro), Flora (La Traviata), Larina (Eugene Onegin), Miss Todd (The Old Maid and the Thief), Baba (The Medium), and Arnalta (L'Incoronazione di Poppea). Ms. Petrie has also performed extensively throughout South Korea with her husband, guitarist David Veslocki.

Originally from East Texas, mezzo-soprano, Eva Parr became a student of Scott Flaherty in New York City after receiving her Bachelors in Vocal Performance from Oklahoma City University. Her most recent appearances have been as a member of the ensemble in Carmen with Amore Opera, as well as in the debut performance of Mascagni's Il Piccolo Marat at Avery Fisher Hall in New York. Past performances include the role of Barbarina in Le nozze di Figaro with the Romefestival Opera, and the Sandman in Hansel and Gretel with Oklahoma City University.

Soprano Kaliroi Tsamboukos performed extensively in Opera Festival di Roma, Italy, American Institute of Musical studies in Graz, Austria, lead role Blanche in Dialogue of the Carmelites by Francis Poulenc and various opera scenes with the Mannes Extension Opera in New York City. She has studied with Anna Moffo from the Metropolitan Opera, Carolina Pissarenko, Meagen Miller, and Carolyn Marcell. She participated in the master classes of Galina Pisarenko and Patricia Craig. Her vocal coaches have included Marshall Williamson, Leo Shih and Elizabeth Bice.

Known for her “…substantial instrument that deserves attention,” soprano, Kimberly Walton has performed throughout the United States and Europe. Recent operatic performances include the title role in Martinu’s Comedy on the Bridge, as well as Erste Dame (Die Zauberflöte), Marcellina (Le Nozze di Figaro), Lapak (Cunning Little Vixen), Suor Genevieve (Suor Angelica), and Mere Jeanne (Dialogue of the Carmelites). In addition to opera, Ms. Walton is an avid recitalist and musical theater performer. She was featured in cabaret concert with American Opera Projects.

Coloratura soprano, Kristin Renee Young, is a graduate of Barnard College of Columbia University and currently studies with Harolyn Blackwell. A native of Philadelphia, Ms. Young was a 1^st Place winner in the Harlem Opera Theater’s Vocal Competition and is a Marian Anderson Historical Society Scholar. Most recently, she sang the role of Lady Reporter in Duke Ellington’s Queenie Pie with the Harlem Opera Theatre. Ms. Young has appeared in scenes programs as Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro, Violetta in La Traviata, and Belinda in Dido and Aeneas.

Madame de la Haltière

Antonia Garza Szilagi

Noèmie

Miyuki Hashimoto

Dorothée

Margaret Meyer

Cendrillon (Lucette)

Olanna Goudeau

La Fée

Rebecca Shorstein

Le Prince Charmant

Catherine Freeman

Pandolfe

Jeremy Bolin

Act I
	“Faites-vous très belles ce soir…”	Mme. de la Haltière, Noémie and Dorothée
	“Et mes soeurs seront là…”	Cendrillon
	“Ah! Douce enfant…”	La Fée

Act II
	“Allez, laissez-moi seul…”	Le Prince Charmant
	“Toi qui m’es apparue…”	Le Prince Chamant, Cendrillon

Act III
	“Enfin, je suis ici…”	Cendrillon
	“C’est vrai! C’est vrai!”	Mme. de la Haltière, Noémie and Dorothée
		Pandolfe
	“Ah! Maman! Ah! Maman!”	Mme. de la Haltière, Noémie and Dorothée
		Pandolfe, Cendrillon
	“Afin qu’ils ne puissant se voir…”	La Fée
	“À deux genoux, Bonne Marraine…”	Cendrillon, Le Prince Charmant, La Fée

Act IV
	“Possez dans son écrin…”	Le Prince Charmant, La Fée, Cendrillon,
		Pandolfe, Mme. de la Haltière

Tony Bellomy studied piano with Vengerova prodigy, Judit Jaimes, and holds degrees in both piano performance and vocal accompanying/opera coaching. He has coached and played for the Florentine Opera and the Skylight Opera Theatre, both of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. From 2002 to 2006, he was also a visiting faculty member of the Black Hills Summer Institute of the Arts in Spearfish, South Dakota, with soprano Johanna Meier and tenor and conductor, John Stewart. Since moving to New York in 2005, he has coached and assisted for the Little Opera Theatre of New York, New Jersey Verrismo Opera, Encompass New Opera Theatre and dell’Arte Opera Ensemble. As a recitalist, Mr. Bellomy has appeared widely throughout the United States with such singers as Kurt Ollmann, Darryl Taylor and Kitt Reuter Foss. Tony also has a great love of choral music. He has worked under such great choral conductors as Sir David Willcocks and Helmuth Rilling and since 2008 has been the Associate Conductor for the Grace Choral Society of New York.

Tristan Cano is a graduate of the Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music. Since moving to New York three years ago, he served as the Music Director of Opera Manhattan, the Martha Cardona Theatre, Capital Heights Lyric Opera, and Opera Company of Brooklyn. Operas include: L’Elisir d’amore, Don Pasquale, La Boheme, The Magic Flute, Hansel and Gretel, Gianni Schicchi, La Cenerentola, Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Amahl and the Night Visitors, and Die Fledermaus. Prior to moving to New York, Maestro Cano was the music director for the Valley Lyric Opera in Pennsylvania. He also studied and performed under Maestro Pier Miranda Ferraro at the Accademia Lirica Italiana in Milan, Italy.

Conductor Keith Chambers was appointed Assistant Conductor of New York City Opera in 2007 and is Music Director of the Emerging Artist Program & Chorus Master for Opera New Jersey. He has conducted Tosca for Amarillo Opera, Roméo et Juliette for Asheville Lyric Opera, The Station for Sugar Land Opera, The Living Opera (Hansel and Gretel, Le nozze di Figaro, Don Pasquale, & The Pirates of Penzance), Halifax Summer Opera (Giulio Cesare), Moores Opera Center (Die Fledermaus & La finta giardiniera), and Opera in the Ozarks (Don Giovanni & L’elisir d’amore). He serves on faculty of the Seattle Opera Young Artist Program and is a Program Director for the RESONANZ Festival. Mr. Chambers is the past Artistic Director of The Living Opera and Chorus Master/Music Director of Shreveport Opera. Additional performances include Toledo Opera, Connecticut Opera, American Opera Projects, and American Lyric Theater. He has appeared as concerto soloist with the Delaware Symphony, Clear Lake Symphony, and Naples Philharmonic.

Jeremy Bolin, baritone, is making his return from a short hiatus in his Opera career. He has been seen with Di Capo Opera and New Jersey Opera Theater, where he has performed roles such as Schaunard in La Boheme, Il Compte in Cherubin, and The King in Die Lustigen Nibelungen. He attended Manhattan School of Music where he studied roles such as Sid in Albert Herring, The Count in Le Nozze Di Figaro, and Gugliemmo in Cosi Fan Tutte.

Michael Angelo DeCarlo, has his Bachelors of Music from the HARTT School of Music and has since moved to New York City where he has been studying with Doris Jung Popper. He has performed roles such as the Frederick (Pirates of Penzance), Tamino (The Magic Flute), Kaspar (Amahl and the Night Visitors), Don Basilio and Don Curzio (The Marriage of Figaro), Judge (Trial by Jury), Raoul de St Brioche (The Merry Widow), Mercury (Orpheus in the Underworld), Elder Gleaton (Susannah), Pinellino (Gianni Schicchi), and is very excited to be performing the role of Monostatos and covering the role of Tamino with New York Lyric Opera Theatre.

Rachel Felstein, soprano, completed her Bachelors of Music degree at Mannes College, the New School for Music in 2009. With the Mannes Opera under the direction of Maestro Joseph Colaneri, she has been heard as Gounod's Mireille, Adina from Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore, Miss Wordsworth from Britten's Albert Herring, Juliette from Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette, Susanna from Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro, and Frasquita from Bizet’s Carmen. She sang the opera The Coming of War which was featured in the Hartford Opera's "New in November" workshop of contemporary operas.

Mezzo-Soprano, Catherine Freeman was a Resident Artist at Connecticut Opera, and through their outreach program, Connecticut Opera Express, she toured throughout New England singing the role of The Mother in Amahl and the Night Visitors. In 2006, she sang the role of Paride in Gluck's Paride ed Elena, and recently she performed the role of Cherubino in the Manhattan Concert Artists’ production of Le Nozze di Figaro. Ms. Freeman was featured at our Opera Concert performed in Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall as well as Prince Charming in Cendrillon.

Olanna Goudeau, soprano, continues to captivate audiences with her dazzling coloratura, rich lyricism, and crystalline upper range. Roles include: Lakmé (Lakmé); Adele (Die Fledermaus); Rosina (Il Barbiere di Siviglia); Rose Maybud (Ruddigore); Papagena (Die Zauberflöte); Lauretta (Le Docteur Miracle); Gretel and Sandman (Hansel & Gretel); Snow White (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs); Rudi (A Gift of Song) Awards include: 2^nd place Benton-Schmidt Opera Competition, Metropolitan Opera National Council Regional Finalist.

Miyuki Hashimoto, a lyric soprano from Japan, returns to us as the cover for Noèmie in Cendrillon. This summer, she will be singing Margot in The Merry Widow with the Delaware Valley Opera Company in Philadelphia. Roles include: Suor Dolcina (Suor Angelica), Mimí (La Bohème), Servilia (La clemenza di Tito), Frasquita (Carmen), La Cuisinière (Le Rossignol), and Fedra (L’Egisto). She holds an Italian language diploma from the Università per stranieri in Perugia, a Master’s degree, and a Professional Studies’ certificate in voice from Temple University.

University of Connecticut graduate, Katherine LaPorta is quickly establishing herself as a skilled artist with a rich timbre and has been praised for her astounding accuracy and flexibility. Upcoming: Ginerva in Handel's Ariodante with the New York Opera Forum. She recently sang the role of Die Königin der Nacht in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte with Connecticut Lyric Opera was heard as Gretel in Hansel and Gretel with Opera Theater of Connecticut. Other Roles Include: Gilda (Rigoletto), Monica (The Medium), Pauline (La Vie Parisienne), Pamina (The Magic Flute).

Tabitha Liggett, a Chicago native, holds a Bachelors of Music from the University of Kentucky and a Masters of Music degree from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Ms. Liggett’s recent featured roles include Gabriella in La Rondine with Sarasota Opera, Mimì in La Bohème and Pamina in The Magic Flute with the University of Nevada, Las Vegas Opera Theatre. Ms. Liggett has won the first place award in the NATS competition. Roles include: Micaela (Carmen), Salud (La Vida Breve), Minnie (La Fanciulla del West), Marguerite (Faust), and Arabella (Arabella).

Margaret Meyer received her Master’s degree from McGill University and studies with Ruth Golden of the Academy of Vocal Arts. Her professional engagements have included the soprano soloist in Mozart’s Mass in C minor, Handel's Messiah, Brahms’ Ein deutsches Requiem, and Mozart’s Exsultate, jubilate. Ms. Meyer’s operatic roles include Gretel (Hänsel und Gretel), Zerlina (Don Giovanni), Ciesca (Gianni Schicchi), Najade (Ariadne auf Naxos), the title role in Cavalli’s Calisto, and Ruggiero (Alcina). She performed Dorothée in Cendrillon with us last fall.

Jessica Victoria Philpot, soprano received a Bachelors Degree from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. Recent performances include Venus in Orpheus and the Underworld, La Bergère in L’Enfant et les sortilèges, and Hero and Venus in L’Egisto. Other roles include: Gilda in Verdi’s Rigoletto and Donna Elvira in Mozart’s Don Giovanni at Songfest in Malibu, California. She was a finalist of the Dayton Opera Guild Competition. She won second place at the College-Conservatory of Music Undergraduate Voice Competition.

Praised for her radiant voice and captivating stage presence, Florida native Rebecca Shorstein returns to New York after making her European debut as the Königin der Nacht with the Mittelsächsiches Theater Freiberg. Ms. Shorstein recently completed her Masters degree at Florida State University, where she sang the role of Servilia (La Clemenza di Tito) with FSU Opera, and the Queen of the Night (The Magic Flute) with FSU’s outreach productions. She has also been featured as Elvira in I Puritani, Gilda in Rigoletto, and Miss Silverpeal in Schauspieldirektor.

Jennifer Sin is a rising soprano in the New England area. Roles: Königin der Nacht (New York Lyric Opera Theatre, New York Opera Studio with Nico Castel, & BASOTI), Parthenis from La Belle Helene (L’Opera du Perigold), Olympia (Boston Conservatory), and 1^st Novice (James Madison University). Other roles include Blondchen, Adele, Norina, Prince Caprice, Carolina (Il Matrimonio Segreto), and Gretel (Christopher Columbus). Finalist: New Hampshire’s Just Love to Sing Competition (2010), Coeur d' Alene Symphony's Young Artist Competition (2011).

Southern California native Elisa Singer made her New York debut as soprano soloist for the world premiere of Jorge Martin’s Out of the Cradle, Endlessly Rocking with Cantori New York. Performance venues (New York area) include Carnegie Hall and Avery Fisher Hall. Recent opera engagements include La Fée in Cendrillon and Queen of the Night in Die Zauberflöte, both with New York Lyric Opera Theatre, as well as Bizet’s Pearl Fishers with the Opera Company of Middlebury. She was also the soprano soloist in Handel’s Messiah and Mendelssohn’s Elijah.

Angela Christine Smith is currently a 2011 Artist with the Opera Singers Initiative in NY. Her other credits include performances with Martha Cardona Theater, Light Opera of New York, Vocal Arts Symposium in Colorado Springs, Lake George Opera, South Carolina Opera, and Delaware Opera. She has also performed as a principal artist for many seasons with the New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players at New York City Center, Wolf Trap, and on extensive tours from coast to coast and Canada. She is the recipient of the Isaac Asimov Award for Outstanding Artistic Achievement.

Credits include DiCapo Opera, New Orleans Opera (Young Audiences), New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, Loom, NY Renaissance Festival, NY Lyric Opera Theatre, NY Opera Productions, Long Island Opera. Many roles including: Madame in Cendrillion, Sorceress in Dido and Aeneas, Mercedes in Carmen, Berta in The Barber of Seville, Lola in Cavelleria Rusticana, Fairy Queen in Iolanthe, Katisha in Mikado. Off Broadway: original Cast and Cast Album of A Stoop on Orchard Street, Regional: Mrs. Pomerantz in Fiorello, Godfathers Messhugener Wedding, Goldi Goldberg.

	BOITO:	“L’altra notte in fondo al mare…” (Mefistofele)
		— Cara Sun Evans —
	VERDI:	“Caro nome…” (Rigoletto)
		— Abigail Seaman —
	GOUNOD:	“Je veux vivre…” (Roméo et Juliette)
		— Annabelle Han —
	HANDEL:	“Da tempeste il legno infranto…” (Giulio Cesare)
		— Margaret Meyer —
	MOZART:	" Ach, ich fühl's" (Die Zauberflöte)
		— Winnie Nip —
	MOZART:	"Batti, batti, o bel Masetto…" (Don Giovanni)
		— Hongkyung Kim —
	MASSENET:	“Je suis encor…” (Manon)
		— Margaret Meyer —
	MOZART:	“Bester Jüngling…” (Der Schauspieldirektor)
		— Annabelle Han —
	OFFENBACH:	“Elle a fui la tourterelle…” (Les Conte d’Hoffmann)
		— Cara Sun Evans —
	BIZET:	“Comme autrefois…”(Les Pêcheurs de Perles)
		— Winnie Nip —
	DONIZETTI:	“Chacun le sait…” ( La fille du régiment)
		— Abigail Seaman —
	DONIZETTI:	“Prendi, per me sei libero…” (L’elisir d’amore)
		— Hongkyung Kim —

Tony Bellomy studied piano with Vengerova prodigy, Judit Jaimes, and holds degrees in both piano performance and vocal accompanying/opera coaching. He has coached and played for the Florentine Opera and the Skylight Opera Theatre, both of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. From 2002 to 2006 Tony was also a visiting faculty member of the Black Hills Summer Institute of the Arts in Spearfish, South Dakota, with soprano Johanna Meier and tenor and conductor, John Stewart. Since moving to New York in 2005, he has coached and assisted for the Little Opera Theatre of New York, New Jersey Verrismo Opera, Encompass New Opera Theatre and dell’Arte Opera Ensemble. As a recitalist, Tony has appeared widely throughout the US with such singers as Kurt Ollmann, Darryl Taylor and Kitt Reuter Foss. He has worked under choral conductors Sir David Willcocks and Helmuth Rilling.

Born in Taipei, Taiwan, Pei-wen Chen graduated from Mannes college of Music with special piano award and shortly after she made her debut at the Weill Recital Hall of the Carnegie Hall in 1995. Besides performing frequently chamber music in US and Europe, Ms. Chen joined the production of Fedora in the Washington Opera and served as a pianist for the Metropolitan Opera Guild Productions and Amato Opera. Ms. Chen has worked with artists such as Licia Albanese, Elly Ameling, Jon Vickers, Deborah Voigt, Sherril Milnes, etc. Ms. Chen served on the music staff of IVAI in the summer of 2010 and she is a member of faculty in Mannes College since 1999.

Maestro Jay Meetze is lauded for his “passionate and undeniably impressive command of performances” and “sympathetic leadership of the forces of the OCB.” (Opera News). He founded Opera Company of Brooklyn in 2000 and serves as the Artistic and Music Director. His innovative vision for opera is featured on the Jeopardy quiz show, Good Morning America with “MythBusters”, CNN’s “Tips from the Top”, ZDF (German Public TV), other favorable coverage include numerous reports on radio: National Public Radio’s Day to Day, American Public Media’s Marketplace, 1010WINS, WNYC’s Overnight Music and Soundcheck, and reviews and articles (some front-page and full-page) in: Wall Street Journal, NY Times, NY Daily and NY Post newspaper, NY Magazine, Life, American Record Guide, Opera News Magazine, Crain’s New York Business, Classical Singer.

Rachel Arky, soprano, completed her Master's in Music at Manhattan School of Music. Roles include: Cherubino, Giulietta (Vaccaj's Romeo e Giulietta), Donna Elvira, Marguerite, Lauretta, Cendrillon. Ms. Arky was born in NYC and completed her undergraduate studies at Barnard College, Columbia University, graduating summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. Competition Winnings: 3rd Place: NJ Assoc. of Verismo Opera, 3rd Place in Liederkranz Art Song Division.

Elena Teresa Bird was raised in Kenai, Alaska. In 2005, she moved to Northfield, MN to study with Dr. Alison Feldt at St. Olaf College. In 2007, Ms. Bird transferred to the University of Colorado, Boulder, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Music Degree in Voice Performance in 2009 after studying with Patrick Mason and Dr. Mutsumi Moteki. Recent roles include Sandrina from Mozart's La finta giardiniera and Miss Wordsworth from Britten's Albert Herring.

Born in Wilmington, Delaware, Vivian Holfeld Borghese is the youngest of five children. She inherited her passion and talent for music from her mother, Joan Borghese. Ms. Borghese’s musical journey include venues such as Opera Delaware; The Cincinnati Metropolitan Orchestra; The Cincinnati Opera; The Cincinnati Showboat Majestic; The Seven Hills Sinfonietta; The Tuscia Opera Festival; and Downtown Disney in Orlando, Florida. She has trained with some of the world’s finest talents including Metropolitan Opera’s famed baritone Sherrill Milnes.

Lisa Bryce performs operatic roles, oratorio and concerts internationally. She received her Bachelor Degrees at the Manhattan School of Music and Masters Degree from Binghamton University. She has performed (Mimi) La Bohème, (Fiordiligi) Cosi fan tutti, (Countess) Marriage of Figaro, (Mother) Amahl and the Night Visitors, (Mother)Hansel and Gretel, (Giuliette)Tales of Hoffmann, (Ciesca) Gianni Schicchi with the Tri Cities Opera and Shaker Mountain Performing Arts Festival.

Cara Sun Evans is originally from Olympia, Washington and a graduate of New York University. With Underworld Productions, she recently covered the role of Diana in Pygmalion. Ms. Evans has also been seen as Dido in Dido and Aeneas, Mother and Shepherd in L’enfant et les sortilèges, Katisha in The Mikado, and Madame Pritschisch in The Merry Widow. She is a two time winner of the NATS New York City Chapter competition.

Olanna Goudeau, soprano, continues to captivate audiences with her dazzling coloratura, rich lyricism, and crystalline upper range. Performances include: Lakmé (Lakmé); Adele (Die Fledermaus); Rosina (Il Barbiere di Siviglia); Rose Maybud (Ruddigore); Papagena (Die Zauberflöte); Lauretta (Le Docteur Miracle); Gretel and Sandman (Hansel & Gretel); Snow White (Snow White). She was a Metropolitan Opera National Council Regional Finalist.

Annabelle Han has performed leading roles with opera companies in Los Angeles. Her roles included Olympia, Queen of the Night, Gilda, Zerlina. Her performances were highly acclaimed by critics from the local newspapers and magazines. She performed with European orchestras in South Korea. She received her Masters of Music degree with Honors from The California State University (LA). She was awarded Lu Elrod/Snyder Scholarship, Cal Grants, and the Young-Nak Scholarship.

Soprano, Jane Hoffman, originally from Los Angeles, California, recently graduated with a Masters degree from the Manhattan School of Music, where she studied with Hilda Harris. She appeared as Daniel in the New York premiere production of Handel’s Susannah. She has also performed roles such as Olympia (Tales of Hoffmann), the Princess (L’Enfant et les Sortilèges), Ilia (Idomeneo) and the First Spirit (Magic Flute). Ms. Hoffman also holds a Bachelor of the Arts from Sarah Lawrence.

Soprano, Hongkyung Kim was a 2nd place winner in The Barry Alexander International Vocal Competition. The New York Concert Review Inc. described her as "the expressive soprano" when she appeared in Chopin & Schumann 200th celebration concert 2010 at Carnegie Hall. The Star-ledger NJ mentioned her as “Silvery Soprano” after performing Le Pescatrici (Nerina) by Haydn in 2009. She performed recitals in Boston and New Jersey and Glinka Opera Orchestra of Russia.

Amelia Lakoff-Paquette is a pupil of Elizabeth Roberts. Awards and distinctions include: 2^nd prize in the 2011 International Barry Alexander Voice Competition in New York, a grant from the Office Franco-Quebecois , the Society of Singers Award, the Margaret Rice Music Fund, the Bev Sellers Memorial Scholarship, Provincial finalist in the Canadian Music Competition, and 2nd prize in the St. Andrews Arts Council International Aria Competition.

Margaret Meyer received her Master’s degree from McGill University and studies with Ruth Golden of the Academy of Vocal Arts. Her professional engagements have included being the soprano soloist in Mozart’s Mass in C Minor, Handel’s Messiah, Brahms’ Eindeutsches Requiem, and Mozart’s Exsultate, jubilate! Roles: Gretel (Hänsel und Gretel), Zerlina (Don Giovanni), Ciesca (Gianni Schicchi), Najade (Ariadne auf Naxos), title role in Cavalli’s Calisto, and Ruggiero (Alcina).

Winnie Nip, soprano, made her opera debut as Susanna (The Marriage of Figaro) while at Harvard. She has since played Violetta, Mélisande and Amore (Orfeo ed Euridice). She has appeared as soloist in works by Monteverdi and Schütz, Messiah, Lord Nelson Mass, B Minor Mass, St John Passion, Magnificat in D, Mozart’s Requiem, Brahms’ Requiem, and Fauré’s Requiem. Awards: Student Musician of the Year in Hong Kong, her hometown, Semi-finalist: Oratorio Society (NY)

CHARLES SCHNEIDER

Charles Schneider is a baritone from New Jersey who enjoys a busy schedule of both singing and teaching. Mr. Schneider currently serves as an adjunct professor of voice at Westminster School of the Arts of Rider University and the Lawrenceville School. He has sung roles with The Lyric Orchestra, Des Moines Metro Opera, Lyric Opera Cleveland, Anchorage Opera, The Princeton Festival, Opera New York, The OK Mozart Festival, and Concert Operetta Theatre of Philadelphia.

Praised for her warm, rich voice, Abigail Leah Seaman has won numerous awards, including the George S. Holmes Sr. Memorial Scholarship, the George M. Costella Scholarship Award in Voice, and the National Association of Teachers in Singing Competition. Ms. Seaman is also a recipient of the Peabody Career Development Grant and the Fraser Gange Memorial Scholarship at the Peabody Conservatory. She was Susanna (cover) in Le Nozze di Figaro: Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival.

Tenor, Christopher Sierra made his solo debut at the age of 18, performing in various venues throughout Germany, Italy, Austria, Switzerland, France and Luxembourg with the Sound of America National Honor Band and Chorus. Since then, Mr. Sierra has amassed a number of noteworthy performing experiences. He has sung in the opera choruses of various productions with Westminster Opera Theatre, the Princeton Festival, Boheme Opera New Jersey, Opera New Jersey.

Credits include DiCapo Opera, New Orleans Opera (Young Audiences), New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, Loom, NY Renaissance Festival, NY Lyric Opera, NY Opera Productions, Long Island Opera. Many roles including: Madame (Cendrillion), Sorceress (Dido and Aeneas), Mercedes (Carmen), Berta (The Barber of Seville),Lola (Cavelleria Rusticana), Fairy Queen (Iolanthe, Katisha (Mikado),Off Broadway: original Cast & Cast Album: A Stoop on Orchard Street.