I just got back from a fantastic week singing Carmina Burana with the Pioneer Valley Symphony with Maestro Tianhui Ng! I love this piece SO much, and to do it twice in one month was absolute heaven.
Shout out to my amazing colleagues Bradford Gleim and Patrick Dailey.
Many thanks to Portsmouth ProMusica for fliming our Carmina Burana from a few weeks ago!
This week I had the pleasure of joining Boston Lyric Opera at the Boston Public Library on their Nature’s Voice performance with pianist Brendon Shapiro, baritone Zizhao Wang and speaker Brett Hodgdon. Nature has inspired generations of composers to write songs celebrating its wonder, lamenting its decline, and playfully imitating its creatures great and small. In honor of Earth Day, Boston Lyric Opera musicians present a lively concert and conversation exploring how composers and performers translate their experiences of nature into song. From the serene beauty of flowers and the wondrous behavior of insects, to tragic natural disasters like fires and floods, this program uses the power of music to engage our complex emotions about the Earth, inspiring us to action through a lens of beauty and possibility.
The next morning, Brendon Shapiro and I performed a selection of the same repertoire at the Stone Living Lab’s Nature-Based Coastal Resilience in Urban Settings 2025 Conference at UMass Boston. It was very cool to share a space with so many dedicated innovators fighting to protect and fortify our environment.
This week I had the joy of performing my first Carmina Burana! This piece fits me like a glove and I hope it’s the first of many. Huge thanks to Priscilla French and Portsmouth Pro Musica for giving me this amazing opportunity! And congrats to the fantastic choir, instrumentalists and dancers who made this a wonderful performance.
Shout out to the amazing dancers of Safe Haven Ballet, and the work they’re doing to uplift and inspire the community through professional performances and world class ballet education while upholding a trauma-informed approach.
WIth tenor Neal Ferreira and baritone Will Prapestis
All smiles after my recent audition at The Metropolitan Opera.
First and foremost I want to wish my amazing manager of many years, Nick Netos, a fantastic retirement! Nick was a dream of a manger and am so grateful to him for our wonderful partnership. It is a rare and beautiful thing to be seen and appreciated for the person and artist that you are. Thank you for this and so many other things, Nick.
This month I’m covering the role of Performance Artist in the world premiere of The Seasons. This new opera features music by Vivaldi, a libretto by Sarah Ruhl, and was co-conceived with Anthony Roth Costanzo.
We had a fantastic show of Mark Adamo’s masterpiece Lysistrata with Odyssey Opera and BMOP last night! This is easily one of my favorite operas, and I am so honored to help bring it to life as Xanthe and Aphrodite. Next we go into recording at WGHB! Stay tuned for the album release :)
Aphrodite in Lysistrata
Curtain call with Maestro Gil Rose and Mark Adamo.
The Athenian Women of Lysistrata!
Working with librettist, composer and stage director, Mark Adamo.
I had a fantastic time singing four Mozart songs with Brooklyn Art Song Society in Histories V: The Viennese School.
Franz Joseph Haydn: Selected Songs
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Selected Songs
Ludwig van Beethoven: Adelaide, Op. 46, An die Hoffnung, Op.94 An Die Ferne Geliebte Op. 98
Ashley Emerson, Maggie Finnegan soprano
Katherine Lerner mezzo-soprano
Michael Kelly baritone
Mike Brofman, Brent Funderburk, Joel Harder piano
Photo: Catherine Hancock
We were in the New York Times “Fun Things to Do" write-up!
