Laura K. McCauley, Soprano
Miss McCauley has her Master of Music Degree in Opera Performance from Arizona State University and her Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance from Ithaca College in New York. Laura was a Metropolitan Opera National Council District Winner for 2018 and awarded the Encouragement Award in 2017. During summer of 2019, she was a Studio Artist with Opera Neo singing in Eugine Onegin, La Calisto, and Cenerentola.*
Originally from Tashkent, Uzebekistan, she was adopted by an American family when three months old and grew up in Philaelphia. Laura loves chocolate-covered gummy bears from Sprouts, is a HUGE Eagles football fan and has a Staffordshire bull-terrier bulldog mix named Molly.
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Laura was a Metropolitan Opera National Council District Winner for 2018 and awarded the Encouragement Award in 2017. For her 2019 summer, Laura was a Studio Artist with Opera Neo singing in Eugine Onegin, La Calisto, and Cenerentola. Her past operatic roles include Tirésias in Les Mamelles de Tirésias, Pamina in Die Zauberflote, the title role in Semele, Beth in Little Women, and Satirino in La Calisto in addition to others. She performed scenes as Gilda in Rigoletto, Norina in Don Pasquale, Lucia in Lucia di Lammermoor, Servilia in La clemenza di Tito and and Adina in L’elisir d’amore. Laura played Susanna in the 2017 Doctorate Collaborative Piano Recital of Act Two of Le Nozze Di Figaro at Arizona State University and was cast as Mrs. Phagan in the 2015 Graduate Production of Parade at Ithaca College.