“Remember the name Conesa. She is young but that voice suggests a major future”  – Operawire 20201 – The Daily Telegraph 

Monica Conesa
Soprano

Cuban American soprano Monica Conesa is making a name for herself in the world of opera. At age 26, Monica made her professional debut at L’Arena di Verona in the title role of Aida under the baton of Maestro Marco Armiliato making her the youngest artist to debut a title role in the Arena’s history. In the following season she appeared in the title role of La Gioconda in the Teatro Filarmonico di Verona, and later returned to the Teatro Filarmonico as Aida. She also performed the title role in Dolores by Thomas Breton at the 2023 Festival Teatro Lirico Espagnol with Oviedo Filarmonica. This past summer she returned to Arena di Verona for the title role in Aida and performed in concert with Maestro Riccardo Muti in Ravenna, Jerash and Pompeii. This season she returned to Ravenna Festival for the title role in Norma also with Maestro Muti. Later in the season she will make her US debut as Nedda in I Pagliacci with Seattle Opera.

Ms. Conesa was awarded the first prize in the 2021 Premio Fausto Ricci Competition. Jury Chair Jose Carreras described her having, “an extraordinary, theatrical, and secure voice”.  That same year she was awarded first place in the prestigious International Singing Competition “Maria Caniglia” in Sulmona. In the summer of 2021, Monica studied at the European Music Institute Wien with Maestro Francisco Ariaza, and soon after she performed the role of Santuzza in Cavalleria Rusticana with L’accademia Nationale di Belcanto Italiano in Castelvetro di Modena.

Praised by the New York Times for being “dramatically and musically alluring…notable for her burnished timbre and subtle phrasing,”

Marina Costa-Jackson
Soprano

Italian-American soprano Marina Costa Jackson is thrilling audiences throughout the US, Europe, and Asia. Recent engagements include her debut as Tosca with the Lyric Opera of Kansas City, Mimi in La Boheme with Los Angeles Opera, Tatyana in Eugene Onegin with Seattle Opera, and concerts with Seattle Opera and with CulturArte de Puerto Rico.  Last season she sang the title role in Suor Angelica and Lauretta in Gianni Schicchi with San Diego Opera, and debuted Puccini’s Manon Lescaut for North Carolina Opera.  Engagements canceled due to COVID-19 included Nedda in I Pagliacci with Michigan Opera Theatre, Mimi in La Boheme for Opéra national de Paris, and Amelia in Simon Boccanegra with the Washington Concert Opera. Future engagements include Giulietta in Les Contes d’Hoffmann with the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, her debut as Minnie in La Fanciulla del West with North Carolina Opera, Tosca with Teatro Petruzzelli in Bari, Musetta in La Boheme with Utah Opera, and a debut at the New National Theatre, Tokyo and Nashville Opera.

Recent performances include Elisabetta in Verdi’s Don Carlo with Grange Park Opera, Desdemona in Verdi’s Otello with the Savonlinna Opera Festival, the Bolshoi Opera, and Austin Lyric Opera, Violetta in Verdi’s La Traviata with Teatro San Carlos Lisbon, and Oper Köln, Maria in Donizetti’s Maria di Rohan with the Washington Concert Opera, Mimi for Oper Köln, Fiordiligi in Cosi fan tutte for Seattle Opera, Leonora in Il Trovatore for Musica Viva Hong Kong, Micaela in Bizet’s Carmen for Opéra national de Paris, the Verdi Requiem for Teatro Municipal de Santiago, Adalgisa in Belini’s Norma for Dallas Opera for which she was awarded the 2017 Maria Callas Debut Artist of the Year. She made her Royal Concertgebuow debut as Juilette in A Village Romeo and Juiette conducted my Mark Elder.

Ms. Costa Jackson has performed in concert with Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Andrea Bocelli, and debuted as one of the Costa-Jackson Sisters Trio in the International Festival “Palaces of St. Petersburg”.

Marina is a 2015 Metropolitan Opera National Council Awards finalist, and has won top awards from the Gerda Lissner Foundation, the Licia Albanese-Puccini Foundation International Vocal Competition, and the Opera Index Vocal Competition. In 2016 she was a second-place winner of Operalia and recipient of the Zarzuela Award. Notable awards include the Marcello Giordani Foundation Vocal Competition, the Belvedere Competition, the Mario Lanza Institute, and the George London Foundation. She is a 2016 graduate of the famed Academy of Vocal Arts in Philadelphia.

“The Glimmerglass Festival – “Among the Young Artists who formed the Greek choruses, Ariana Wehr, with her alert leggiero soprano, was a particular standout, and she had a delightful bit as a sparky nurse in the maternity ward.”
– Fred Cohn, Opera News

Ariana Wehr
Soprano

Brazilian-American soprano, Ariana Wehr, is a graduate of the Cafritz Young Artist Program at the Washington National Opera. Last season she performed Micaela in Carmen with Portland Opera and returned to the Washington National Opera for Jeanine Tesori and Tazewell Thompson’s Blue as Girlfriend #1/Nurse/Congregant.  Ms. Wehr’s association with the opera includes its debut in 2019 for the Glimmerglass Festival where she received great critical acclaim.  She is also on the original cast recording released on PENTATONE. This season Ariana performs in Opera Lafayette’s production of La Fêtes de Thalie and next season she makes her debut with the Lyric Opera of Chicago.

Recently Ms. Wehr also made her Seattle Opera debut as Euridice in Gluck’s Orfeo, and returned to Seattle Opera for their production of Blue. She reprised her roles in Blue for her Pittsburgh Opera debut, and was featured in Washington National Opera’s production of Carmen for the Kennedy Center Honors on the CBS Television Network.  Ariana also recently made her Carnegie Hall debut in Requiem by Marc-André Bougie and Serenade to Music by Vaughan Williams.

Other performances include Despina in Cosi fan tutte for Opera in the Heights, Gretel in Hansel and Gretel in a return to Brava Opera Theater, Stravinsky’s Pulcinella with the Naples Philharmonic, Micaela in Carmen with Opera Louisiane, Amy March in Mark Adamo’s Little Women with Annapolis Opera, Konstanze in Mozart’s The Abduction from the Seraglio with Brava! Opera Theater, and Abigail Williams in Francesca Zambello’s production of The Crucible at The Glimmerglass Festival .

She was invited to sing in the Cardiff Singer of the World Competition in 2021 and in 2018 advanced to the Semi-Finals of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. For the Washington National Opera she has been seen as Barbarina in Le Nozze di Figaro, Susanna in the Domingo-Cafritz  performance of Le Nozze di Figaro, Ms. Holy in the world premiere of Mohammed Fairouz’s The Dictator’s Wife, Gretel in Hansel and Gretel, Frasquita in Carmen, Kahua in the world premiere of Better Gods, and Zerlina in Mozart’s Don Giovanni directed by Francesca Zambello.

“Adriana Ferfecka has already acclaimed herself at the Deutsche Oper Berlin and at the opera in Roman many others. She has a beautiful voice, a commanding stage presence, and an acting streak – what more could you want.”  Z operą w Nowy Rod

Adriana Ferfecka
Soprano

Polish soprano Adriana Ferfecka completed her vocal studies at Frydryk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw. Engagement during the 2023-2024 season includes Violetta in La Traviata and Mimi in La Boheme with the Theater Wielki in Warsaw, and her debut with Opera Orchestre National Montpellier as Mimi in La Boheme. Last season she was seen as Mimi in La Boheme and Micaela in Carmen with the Theater Wielki in Warsaw, and Violetta in La Traviata with Theater Koblenz.

Most recently she sang Mimi with the Deutsche Oper Berlin,  Liu in Turandot with Teatro dell’Opera di Roma,  Sour Angelica at the Inauguration of the Ada Sari International Vocal Artistry Festival, Mimi in La Boheme for Wrocław Opera, Corinna in Il Viaggio a Reims for Teatro dell’Opera di Roma,   Susanna  in  Le nozze  di Figaro in Cagliari, Gianni Schicchi for Dutch National Opera, Valencienne in Die lustige Witwe at Teatro La Fenice, Teatro dell’ Opera  di  Roma  and Teatro San Carlo in Naples, Micaela in Carmen for Deutsche Oper Berlin, Illia in Idomeneo in Rome, Adina in L’elisir D’amore at the Silesian Opera House in Bytom, Saffi in Die Zigeunerbaron at the Stanislaw Moniuszko Podlasie Opera, La traviata in Grand Teatre Poznan.

Adriana has worked with many important conductors including Paolo Arrivabeni, Andrea Battistoni, Marc Albrecht, Donald Runnicles, Michele Mariotti, Diego Matheuz, Stefano Montanari, Ivan Repusic, Alexander Vedernikov, and Sebastian Weigle.

In 2015 she was admitted to the Young Artists Program of the Salzburg Festival, where she made her debut as Rosina in Il Barbiere di Siviglia. Between 2015 and 2017 she was a Scholarship Recipient at Deutsche Oper Berlin where she performed Zerlina in Don Giovanni, Frasquita in Carmen, Erste Dame in Die Zauberflöte, Xanthe in Die Leibe der Dananae, and made numerous concert appearances as well.

In 2015 she was a finalist at the Neue Stimme Competition in Dresden, and has been the winner of numerous international competitions including; the International Competition for Opera Singers “Ferruccio Taglavini” in 2014, the International Vocal Competition “Grand Prix De’l Opera” in Romania, the International Vocal Competition in Germany, first prize of the Concorso Internazionale Iris Adami Corradetti in 2016, 3rd prize at the Soroptimist Club Vercelli Prize at the 69th Viotti International Music Competition in 2018, Ottavio Ziino International Lyric Competition in 2014.

“The premiere was an evening of great debuts, above all, Stéphanie Müther as Brünnhilde. Müther has the radiant highs that Brünnhilde needs, and she masters the dramatic outbursts as in the oath scene, but because of her warm and deep middle register she can go into the duets with Siegfried with a great deal of beauty in the voice. In the final scene she delivers a brilliantly sung Brünnhilde, which immediately puts her into the Olympus of the great Wagner voices”
– Theater Chemnitz, A.H. Hölscher, O-Ton

Stéphanie Müther
Soprano

Described as a voice “possessing immense power”, dramatic soprano Stéphanie Müther recently sang her first complete Ring Cycle as Brünnhilde at Theater Chemnitz to critical acclaim. She sang the same role at the Biwako Hall (Kyoto) which completed a full Ring Cycle in 2020.

Engagements this season include another complete Ring Cycle, this time working with stage director Peter Konwitschny at Theater Dortmund where she also recently made her role debut as Turandot, Ortrud in Wagner’s Lohengrin, for both Theater Dortmund and for her return to Theater Chemnitz, and Elvira in Verdi’s Ernani for Ópera de Oviedo.  She completed last season as the Zweite Norn in Götterdämmerung for the Bayreuther Festspiele. Prior to that she was seen as Brünnhilde for Theater Chemnitz (Götterdämmerung) and for Theater Dortmund (Walküre), Ortrud for both Opera Leipzig and Theater Chemnitz, Tosca for Konzert Theater Coesfeld and for Theater Dortmund, and Isolde for Theater Chemnitz.

Stéphanie began her stage career as a mezzo singing roles like Herodias, Fioretta (I Medici) and Sesto but successfully transitioned into a dramatic soprano debuting as Lady Macbeth at Theater Erfurt in 2016. She has worked with stage directors Valentin Schwarz, Katharina Thalbach, Michael Hampe, Vera Nemirova and conductors Claudio Abbado, Mariss Jansons, Charles Dutoit, Cornelius Meister, Daniele Callegari, and Joana Mallwitz. Stéphanie holds a master’s degree from Conservatoire Geneva, site Neuchâtelois under the tutelage of Jeanne Roth and was a member of the Swiss Opera Studio between 2005 – 2007.

Her repertoire encompasses such roles as Marie (Wozzeck), Mrs. Grose (Turn of the Screw), Gertrud (Hänsel und Gretel), Lady Macbeth (Macbeth), Eboli (Don Carlo), the title roles of Puccini’s Turandot, Tosca, and Brünhilde, Ortrud, and Isolde. She is especially dedicated to the Spanish song literature which she was introduced to through her work with Teresa Berganza.

“You didn’t need to understand the text about the “silvery moon in the velvet night” in Dvorak’s “Song to the Moon” from Rusalka: It was all right there in the silvery orchestrations, and in the velvet soprano voice of Elena Perroni.” – Philadelphia Inquirer – Welch National Opera 2021 – The Daily Telegraph

Elena Perroni
Soprano

Ms. Perroni made her professional debut with Opera Philadelphia, singing the role of Doris Parker in Charlie Parker’s Yardbird, at the legendary Apollo Theatre in New York City, and reprised the role in her English National Opera debut.  As a graduate of the world-renowned Curtis Institute of Music, last season she joined other fellow alumni for a European chamber music tour to Greece, Italy, Germany, and Spain, and she was also heard in concert with the Cleveland Chamber Music Society. This fall she returned to her native country for Mimi in La Boheme with the West Australian Opera. Future engagements include Gilda in Rigoletto with New Zealand Opera.

Recent engagements include the title role of Iolanta with West Australian Opera, and Britten’s War Requiem with the West Australian Symphony Orchestra alongside maestro Asher Fisch, both which received great acclaim. She also recently debuted Carnegie Hall performing Schubert’s Mass in G, Brahms’ Ein Deutches Requiem with West Australian Symphony Orchestra, and made her role debut as Violetta in Verdi’s La Traviata for West Australian Opera.

In addition to her recent successes on the operatic stage, Ms. Perroni is quickly making a name for herself in the concert hall.  In 2017, she made her Philadelphia Orchestra debut singing selections from Dvorak’s Rusalka. She returned to the Philadelphia Orchestra  in 2018 in a concert featuring selection from Eugene Onegine as Tatyana, and for Nuits d’ete. Other concert engagements include Mimi in La Boheme with Quad Cities Symphony Orchestra, Juliet in Tchaikovsky’s Romeo & Guliet with the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, Sister Constance in Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmelites with West Australian Opera, and Maria in Leonard Berstein’s West Side Story, with the Reno Philharmonic.

Ms. Perroni is a recent graduate of the world renowned Curtis Institute of Music, where she has performed many leading roles including Adina in Donezetti’s  L’elisir d’Amore, the title role in Massenet’s Manon, Anne Truelove in Stravinsky’s  The Rake’s Progress, Susanna in Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro, as well as Lauretta Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi, and Magda in La Rondine.  Ms. Perroni has also performed the leading roles of Mimi in La Boheme and Gilda in Verdi’s Rigoletto at the Chautauqua Music Festival.

In 2018 Elena was both a NY regional winner in the Loren L. Zachery competition and a semi-finalist in the Belvedere Competition.

” In Vancouver Opera’s latest Traviata, [Violetta] is brilliantly portrayed by Canadian soprano Emily Dorn. She sings with an impressive range, both tonally and expressively, to carry the vast repertoire of the role, from sparkling duets to pensive solos. And she has the acting chops to bring off her character’s mercurial mood shifts. Altogether a nuanced – even mesmerizing – portrayal”. – Vancouver Observer

Emily Dorn
Soprano

Canadian Soprano Emily Dorn is thrilling audiences with her “warm, rich middle, a shimmering, flexible top, excellent control… and her exquisitely beautiful delivery” (Opera News). This past season Emily returned to Opera de Montreal to sing Marguerita Xirgu in Ainadamar by Golijov, and Landestheater Detmold where she performed Donna Elvira and debuted the role of Tatyana in Eugene Onegin. Next season she performs Liu in Turandot, Antonia in Tales of Hoffmann, Sister Helen Prejean in Dead Man Walking, and Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni with Landestheater Detmold. Other recent engagements in Detmold include role debuts as Contessa Almaviva in Le Nozze di Figaro, Hanna Glawari in Die Lustige Witwe, the Governess in The Turn of the Screw, and Isabella/Mama in Detlef Heusinger’s new opera Die Zeitreisemaschine,  performed in cooperation with the Bergenzer Festspiele.

 Recent performances have included her debut as Lisa in Das Land des Lächelns for Detmold, Violetta in La Traviata with the Vancouver Opera, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with Teatro Massimo di Palermo, Mass in C with the BBC Philharmonic, Gretel in Hänsel und Gretel, Baronin Freimann in Der Wildschütz, Frau Hudetz in Der Jüngste Tag, and Julia de Weert in Der Vetter aus Dingsda, Margarethe in Faust, Fiordiligi inCosi fan tutte, and the title role in Von Flotow’s Martha all with the Landestheater Detmold. She recently returned to the US for Micaela in Carmen for her Seattle Opera debut and made her Italian debut in Mozart’s Mass in C with the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale Rai.

From 2012 – 2018 Emily was a member of the ensemble of the Semperoper Dresden. While at the Semperoper Emily was heard as Katja in Die Passagieren,Pamina in die Zauberflöte, Violetta in La Traviata, Musetta in La Boheme, Micaela in Carmen, Gretel in Hänsel und Gretel, Adele in Die Fledermaus, Fiordiligi in Cosi fan tutte, Bubikopf in Kaiser von Atlantis, the title role of Regina under the batan of Simone Young, and Susanna in their new production of Le Nozze di Figaro conducted by Omer Meir Welber and directed by Johannes Erath. This production was then featured at the Sanvonlinna Festival.

Emily has been a recipient of numerous honors, winning first place in the New England Regional Metropolitan Opera National Council Awards, second place awards from the Gerda Lissner and the Guilio Gari International Voice Competitions, third place winner in the Licia Albanese-Puccini Foundation, and an Encouragement Grant from the George London Foundation

“If Floresta do Amazonas’ more programmatic qualities are heard in its instrumental sections, the most evocative moments occur in the floating vocalist passages of ‘Pássaro da florestra’, the gently swaying counters of ‘Veleiros’ or the seductive sultriness of ‘Canção do amor’, rendered here with taste and impeccable musical judgment by soprano Camila Provenzale.” – Gramophone

Camila Provenzale
Soprano

Italian-Brazilian soprano Camila Provenzale was a 2015 prize recipient of the Neue Stimmen Singing Competition in Germany. In 2016 she opened the season of the Bregenz Festival in Austria under baton of Maestro Paolo Carignani and the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, and in 2017 she made her made her French debut interpreting the role of Contessa di Almaviva in Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro at the Opéra de Toulon. In that same year she was a prize recipient of the Paris Opera Competition held in Paris at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées.

A graduate of the Centre Perfeccionament at the Les Arts in Valencia, this season Camila performs Micaela in Carmen with Opera North in Leeds, Bachianas Brasileiras No.5 by Villa-Lobos with the Philharmonie de Paris, and Opera de Rouen Normandie, and Suite da Floresta do Amazonas with Técnica Real Filharmonía de Galicia. Upcoming performances include her Carnegie Hall debut under the baton of Marin Alsop with the São Paulo Symphony Orchestra, and Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony in Brazil with the São Paulo Symphony Orchestra.

Recent performances include Donna Anna in Don Giovanni for Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Pamina in Die Zauberflöte for Teatro Solis, Hanna Glawari in Die Lustige Witge in Brazil, Donna Anna for Garsington Opera, and music by Villa Lobos and Philip Glass for her debut with the Orchestra dell ‘Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia.

In 2019 Camila represented Brazil as a finalist in the Cardiff Singer of the World competition. Other prizes include the Giusy Devinu Competition in Cagliari/Italy, first prize in the Brazilian Maracanto competition, second prize in the Bidu Sayão competition, and was a prize recipient of the Neue Stimmen Singing Competition in Germany.

Mlada Khudoley
Soprano

American soprano Mlada Khudoley is best known for her roles by Berlioz (Cassandra – Les Troyens), Bellini (Norma), Puccini (Turandot and Manon Lescaut), Strauss (Ariadne, Salome, The Empress), Verdi (Aida, Leonora – Il Trovatore, Lady Macbeth, Abigaille), and Wagner (Sieglinde, Gutrune, Senta, Elisabeth, and Brünnhilde (Götterdämmerung). She has recorded Brünnhilde in Götterdämmerung and The Empress in Die Frau ohne Schatten with maestro Valery Gergiev. This season she performs Abigaille in Verdi’s Nabucco with Semperoper Dresden.

Miss Khudoley has appeared at the Metropolitan Opera, Bregenz Festspiele, Edinburgh Festival, Dutch National Opera, Carnegie Hall, BBC Proms, Teatro Regio di Torino among others major theaters.

She appeared as Lisa in Pique Dame at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Abigaille in Nabucco at Oper Stuttgart, Oper Leipzig, Greek National Opera, Polish National Opera, Royal Danish Opera and with Tampere Philharmonic in Finland.  She appeared as Sieglinde in Die Walküre with Bryn Terfel at the Wales Millennium Center, and with Placido Domingo at Polish National Opera. She has appeared in various leading roles and performances with the Mariinsky Theatre including Senta, Elisabeth, Sieglinde, Brünnhilde, Salome, Chrysothemis, Cassandre, Turandot, Norma, Abigaille, Renata (The Fiery Angel), and Katerina (Lady Macbeth of Mtzensk).

Ms. Khudoley performed the title role Turandot at Bregenz Festspiele during the summer of 2015 and 2016. This production was telecast live throughout Europe and made archived in a DVD issued by Bregenz Festspiele. She has sung the title role in Turandot at Oper Köln, Hong Kong Opera, Opera Manitoba and Oper Leipzig.  She sang the title role Norma, at Staatstheater St. Gallen and at Florida Grand Opera.

Miriam Costa Jackson
Soprano

Italian-American lyric coloratura soprano Miriam Costa-Jackson is the youngest of the Costa Jackson Sisters. She has been engaged in music from a very young age, performing with the Utah Festival Opera in Verdi’s Rigoletto, Lerner & Loewe’s Brigadoon, and Mendelssohn’s Elijah.  In the 2019 season, Miriam appeared as Clorinda in Seattle Opera’s production of La Cenerentola, followed by a Three Singing Sisters concert at McCaw Hall, Seattle. She made her professional debut with Phoenicia Festival as Micaëla in Bizet’s Carmen in 2018.  Other roles include Die Königin der Nacht in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte, Magda in Puccini’s La Rondine, and Rosita in Torroba’s Luisa Fernanda.

Miriam performs regularly with the Costa Jackson Sisters (Three Singing Sisters), which includes her sisters Ginger and Marina Costa Jackson.  They have presented concerts from such places as Nantucket, San Francisco, and Sun Valley Idaho, as well as two concert tours with the late Dmitri Hvorostovsky, where they presented concerts in Belarus, Minsk, and other cities throughout Russia.

Other concert engagements include Orff’s Carmina Burana for the American Festival Chorus, and a recital at the Italian Embassy in Washington, D.C.

Miriam studied with Renata Scotto at Santa Cecilia in Rome and with Sherrill Milnes at VOICExperience in Florida. Miriam was a 2018 finalist in the Metropolitan Opera National Council Regional Auditions, after having won the Utah District in 2017.  She has also been recognized by the Opera Index Awards.